A Wednesday hodgepodge of music, art, and A2Z catchup
It’s a brand new month again and it’s time to share another another report in my A2Z Road Trip with installment #7. This go around, I managed to catch up with EveryoneHasAFamilyStoryToTell. Jeanne is the blog author, a southern born Georgian who now lives in Connecticut. Her passions include family research, knitting/crocheting, crafting, and naturally blogging. In April, she sailed through the alphabet sharing stories, which by the way she does an excellent job as a story telling, in Mama in Photos series. Not only is Jeanne a fabulous story teller, I fell in love with her mama who was quite a character with a passion for creating and just being herself. I’m envious of Jeanne’s time spent with her mama, and keeping a journal of their conversations despite the miles that separate them. Jeanne’s mama was an independent spirit and a real spit fire but then she was a woman from the greatest generation of all time so I really wouldn’t expect anything less. Jeanne has a natural way of pulling the reader into her life allowing me to be apart of her mama recollections. This is a great series! I encourage you to stop by to read this series when you can and even make a new friend in the process. After all, that’s the neighborly thing to do even if you’re not southern. 🙂
More A2Z Looney Tune sketches in color:
- Foghorn Leghorn & Barnyard Dawg birthday greeting
- Elmer Fudd
- Daffy Duck
- Cecil Turtle & Bugs
- Bugs Bunny & Lola
- Acme Catalog with Wile E. Coyote
I invite you to join the Wild Wednesdays party where just about anything goes. This is an opportunity for everyone to link up sharing current or past posts for extra traffic!
I’m linking with these Wordless Wednesday Communities… Sandee, Natasha, Marie, & Wordless Wednesday!
Here are my responses to Joyce’s Wednesday Hodgepodge questions this week.
1. Do you think intuition is as valuable as rational thinking? Explain why or why not. I think intuition is important. Sometimes you don’t know why you need to do something a particular way and when you go against your gut instincts frequently something goes wrong. It pays to use a little of both when you can.
2. In the grand scheme of things God is in control, not me or you. We need to be patient and listen quietly to His leadership and not try to take things upon ourselves to fix when He’s got it.
3. Last place you went that felt like ‘Grand Central Station’? Have you ever actually been to Grand Central Station (and by Grand Central Station I mean Grand Central Terminal)? It’s been so long since we’ve been in a crowd that I can’t recall precisely when the last time I had a sense that we were in ‘Grand Central Station’ and no, I have not been to the Grand Central Terminal. I really detest being in crowds whenever I can avoid these scenarios then I do.
4. October 6 is National Noodle Day. What’s your favorite dish made with noodles and have you made/eaten this dish lately? I’m not a huge noodle eater. I guess spaghetti or lasagne is my favorite dishes with noodles. The last time I ate noodles is when I made a pot of spaghetti about a month ago. Yum, was it good, too!
5. A time recently you had to really ‘use your noodle’? Elaborate. Last Friday, we got our new cable modem. A few days prior, we spoke with someone at Xfinity when our service was interrupted and upon completion of our call, we asked if we replaced our modem what would be the first step and the gal said to do nothing until we called them. That was a mistake. I knew it would be. We spent more than an hour on the phone Friday afternoon. The Technical Support guy was only able to get our new modem registered on our account. He couldn’t tell us what the problem was with why our modem and wifi router couldn’t communicate. His solution was to escalate our concerns which meant we had to wait for a phone call. After we hung up, I looked over the modem instructions pointing out a few simple steps that might be what we need to do to get things going and wouldn’t you know it, that fixed us up. So, within 15-minutes or less our modem and wifi and all of our devices worked perfectly once again. Next time, we’ll just try to do things for ourselves before calling Tech Support again.
6. Insert your own random thought here. We are taking 2-weeks of vacation starting October 29th. There aren’t any plans for a far away trip this time, but we hope to get plenty of daycations to the mountains during our R&R. After this week, I probably won’t be blogging every day. I have my 4M and Saturday Songsuasions posts scheduled with nearly all of my TAD posts done, as well. If I have time then I will fill in the daily gaps, otherwise that’ll have to wait until life slows down again. Hopefully, I’ll be back ready to blog again by mid-November. Gee, just saying that seems so weird! I’ll leave you with a view from Cherokee, North Carolina near the GSMNP Visitor’s Center. This field is the happening place for elk and it is an easy place to spot them in this open field certain times of the year.
That’s all folks. I’m going to leave you with my song picks for today’s song challenge. I’ll be back tomorrow with more artwork on Rain’s TAD. Have a wild and wonderful day! X💋X💋, Cathy
20 Comments
csuhpat1
Thanks for hosting and have fun on your vacation at the end of the month.
Lydia C. Lee
Looney tunes. Ha!! great work.
I haven’t heard that Eagles song in forever! #WildWednesdays
gaynycdad (@gaynycdad)
Tweety bird! What a great bunch of pictures, thanks for sharing!
Kirstin
Great answers. A two week vacation sounds amazing. We are just finishing up a 1 week vacation.
messymimi's meanderings
As usual, it’s a joy to read your post.
Tammy
Enjoy your R & R. Yes, God is in control, even though I try to control it.
Kathe W.
As always your post was fun!
John Holton
Like the picture of Granny and Tweety. June Foray did the voice of Granny, Mel Blanc did the voice of Tweety…
Like your song picks, too!
Deb Nance at Readerbuzz
Enjoy your time away!
Birgit
I love Granny and Tweety-so well done and coloured. I would like to check out this blog you mentioned as it sounds a bit like my mom who was also a spitfire. I firmly believe in intuition and we should follow it more. I can’t have noodles(starch) but I do like a nice seafood noodle dish. Love your song choices and had no idea what the 2nd and 3rd were until I heard them. I know them very well and enjoyed hearing them because I have not heard them in quite a while. I have been to Grand Central Station which is beautiful in it architecture but i don’t like crowds. I was in Niagara Falls in Sept. and it was quite busy but not nutty like ion the past. Enjoy your time away and will look forward to seeing the pictures.
Mary B
Hi Cathy!
I almost went with Sad Eyes for my choices, so glad that you did instead. and Great minds think alike with Ride Captain Ride. Thanks for playing!
Brian
We always enjoy your sketches too! Those questions are always challenging and your answers were interesting too!
15andmeowing
Always nice to learn more about you through the questions. That is nice that you will have a 2 week vacation with the hubby. XO
Sandee
I love, love, love your sketches. You’re most talented.
Love the playlist. I’ve heard those many times. Beautiful.
Always enjoy your Q&A. We are much alike.
Thank you for hosting the Wild Wednesdays Blog Hop.
Have a fabulous day and rest of the week, Cathy. Love and hugs. ♥
jodaley
It’s a pretty fall so far and I’m sure you’ll enjoy some day trips to the nearby mountains. Enjoy your R & R!
Libby @ Beauty Without Within
I enjoyed reading your post and am excited about your upcoming road trip for you. Hubby and I were discussing where we want to go for a day trip soon just last night. There is so much right around here that we haven’t seen and it’s time to explore our new surroundings.
-Eugi ☕️
Howdy, Cathy! I went through the same thing with Xfinity several years ago. I ended up resolving it myself and since I changed to AT&T. Love your music selection and have a great vacay at the end of the month. Happy Noodle Day! 😘
My GBGV Life
You are an amazing artist. We went back and looked at the other drawings and just love them. You have a real talent. Our mom can’t even draw a decent stick figure!
Donyarific
Glad to be here! Love Granny and Tweety! Thanks for sharing your post entry for JingleJangleJungle, I’d like to join it as well!
Thomas Anderson
Hi, Cathy!
Happy Wild and Almost Wordless Wednesday, dear friend!
Thanks for informing us about blog author Jeanne and her series about her mama. It’s worth checking out. Once again you have delighted my eyes with a full color version of one of your A to Z Looney Tunes sketches – Granny and her cute little Tweety. It pops off the screen.
I enjoyed your Hodgepodge answers. I agree that a combo of intuition and rational thinking is a formula for success in all you do. I didn’t visit New York’s Grand Central Station, but I did visit Penn Station three times. The first was in 1967 when my high school senior class trip took me to The Big Apple. The second was in 1983 when I went to NYC for a weekend with a woman I was dating. The third was in 1986 when I and other NLP trainers traveled to the city to see Cats on B-way. Wiki sez the following about Penn Station: << the busiest transportation facility of any kind in the Western Hemisphere, serving more than 600,000 passengers per weekday as of 2019. >> Like you, I am not fond of large crowds. Busy, bustling, noisy airports and train stations shake my nerves and rattle my brain. Is it Noodle Day again already? My, how time flies. (LOL) Knowing that you are an expert in the kitchen, I’ll bet you make a delicious kettle of spaghetti to the delight of lucky DH and his tummy. I am proud of you for taking it upon yourself to fix your modem problems and circumvent the tech support people. I have found it hard to have meaningful or productive phone conversations with many of them. It pays to learn how to DIY, as you proved.
I know you and DH will have fun on your two week vacation starting at the end of the month. Be sure to take lots of pics and share them with us. Thanks for posting another picture taken from the GSMNP Visitor’s Center, reminding me of my visit to the area at the end of summer 2020.
In your WSC, I like your song choices. Just a reminder that, in addition to “Best Of My Love” by The Eagles, there was a different song with the same title that was a #1 charting crossover hit in 1977 for The Emotions. That song is linked in my memory to my vacation (with Mrs. Shady #1) in Myrtle Beach, SC, during September that year, because it played frequently on the radio throughout our stay. OMG, we need to think of more “Eye” songs right after you listed a bunch in your previous post? This is going to be a brain buster!
Here are my Picks:
LOVE SONG: “Love (Can Make You Happy)” by Mercy, a pop group based right down here in Tampa, FL. In the spring of 1969, Mercy’s single shot to #2 on the pop chart and stayed there three weeks in a row, blocked from the top by The Beatles’ hit “Get Back.”
EYE OR EYES SONG: “Smoke Gets In Your Eyes,” a 1933 song that was turned into a huge hit in 1959 by The Platters. In January that year, The Platters’ single topped the chart four weeks in a row.
RIDE SONG: “She Rides With Me” – The Beach Boys inspired, Brian Wilson produced single recorded by Paul Petersen featuring Brian on background vocals. Released in February, 1964, “She Rides With Me” is widely regarded as the coolest record Paul ever made and a classic of the SoCal hot rod genre.
Thanks for the mewsic and fun, dear friend Cathy, and have a tunetastic day!