Virtual Front Porch

I went for supper with MAGIHC Mike this evening. The food was great and the company was even better. Just as we were leaving the restaurant, who walks in, but the Spandex Harley Lady. Her bike was at the curb complete with the little tree air freshener. I told her that we passed each other on the highway several days ago. She said that I was her. I had to ask, "Why do you have an air freshener on your bike. She replied\,"Red traffic Lights".

To remind her of the trips through the forest, Or to combat the Fumes?

There are a couple of good places to eat in Merritt, Mike is good company.

Speaking Of........ We have a Wire-hair pointer dog that is way too smart. The joke and reality was, "blame the dog". Now she is 12 and has developed some people traits that go with old age. She rips one off, gets up to move,does the pointer pose at me then leaves the room. My daughter always rewarded the dog with a treat and lots of positive feedback when the dog did her "scooting ". Now the pooch does it on request. (scoot, aka butt dragging ". Last night, I blamed the dog and repeated several times in an excited way, "It was you, it was you ". They dog was banking at me, wagging her tail and running around the family room. My wife had retired for the day, but returned to see what the commotion was all about. She walked in blamed the dog and left the room. The dog left with her after locking back and one more ruff.

Hey Lloyd? Is this is how you grow potatoes in IDAHO?

Wow, now there's a conversation stopper.

Show opened last weekend to good reviews, although I was kind of nervous as of Monday night. It was still really rough. But everyone that needed to put in the overtime and we got 'er done. Two more weekends still to go.

Seeing if I can post a video link here from the local news. You may need a Facebook acct to access it:


https://www.facebook.com/RichlandPlayers

Scroll down a few posts to the "Spotlight on the Arts" video.

I admire anyone who can perform on stage. I can't open the link. Congratulations on a job well done.
In the late 1950's, my parents had my brother and I in a religious separate school, I was maybe 12-13 years old. I was forced into a boys quartet for a Christmas variety show in the big chapel. We were supposed to sing We three kings. Well, the numbers were wrong to start with and that was license to mess around. During practice one of us substituted, "We three kings of Orient are sharing the same rubber cigar. When it was loaded, it exploded, taking out yonder star." The big moment came and there were a couple hundred present to watch the show. We were nervous and of course the wrong words sang out. We were escorted off stage to the waiting corporal punishment this school handed out so often. We each got "the strap ", five on each hand was their policy maximum.
For the younger persons who missed being strapped, the strap was a heavy strip of leather about 18 inches long. We had to hold our hands out in front and the strap was beaten down on the upturned palm as hard as possible followed by a prayer.
Well, what ever was in the rubber cigar sure hit the fan. In the bad old daze, a rubber cigar was a condom. Yah, we knew what it was for. Fill it with water and chuck it at someone. Lloyd uses one to store his Idaho potatoes.

I looked for a web page link to the news clip, but the facebook was all I could find. Maybe if you are logged in to facebook in another tab or window when clicking on the link it will open for you.

The director gave me free reign to do whatever I wanted as the king. (The king in this play is mute and most of what I do is pantomime and charades). With one exception- there's a song in the second act called "Man to Man Talk" in which I explain the facts of life to my son the prince through pantomime. Towards the end I came up with this bit where I hop onto the table under the tablecloth and imitate, um- two people very much in love. The first time I did this, the director's reaction was "BWAHHAHAHAHAAAAH!!! don't do that."

I have managed to adapt it to be "family friendly" but still gets a huge laugh every night. Mainly by switching the tablecloth from lace to solid and me not shaking the table so it jumps around and scoots across the floor. I did, however, manage to work in a banana in the fruit basket into the bit on Saturday night.

I edited the previous post and changed to a different link, see if that one comes up for you. Have to scroll down about 3 or 4 posts. There are also some pictures on the left side of the page of some of the cast in costume doing a walk through at an arts festival.

I am reminded of the Mike and Molly TV show episode where Molly's Mother suggested that bananas were a significant part of her feel good program for all those years her kids were growing up. The Mother went on to ask, " Why do think that we had banana bread all those years?" Nice job there King!

Nice blog on the future of car collecting over at Hemmings. I think we are doing our part here by helping and encouraging the "youngsters."

http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2014 ... car-hobby/