Shakesthegrounds Rumblings

[Front-Ranger]

I think that one's an octopus. 

Just seein if you were awake!

 

[Lynne]

Hey there, Truman - I'm just about caught up here with your thread!  That bridge sounds like quite an adventure - I'm very glad you were able to spend that time with your mother.  I'm trying to talk Mom into a trip to Chicago to visit her favorite nephew in the next couple of weeks and she's not the least bit interested.  I think I'll just stick her in the truck and go - she'll like it once she gets there.

And thank you very much for the postcard!  V took it away from me promptly when I showed it to her - she wants to paint the stamp - she's fascinated by those piercing eyes. 

I don't think I've ever laughed harder than I did about the snake story - Friend, you handle whatever comes your way with grace and style, without a doubt.  You're amazing.

 

Speaking of snakes and females, Medusa had snakes for hair...

[Shakesthecoffecan]

So what makes me happy and proud today: Paul Potts, a nervous, overweight Welshman with rough looking teeth and health problems who went on TV on Britians Got Talent and sang opera. And man can he sing. Even Simon said he was not expecting that. He got a standing ovation! The man went from being 30,000 Pounds in debt to being a international star.

Potts will appear on the Today show on NBC on Thursday.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/realitytv/a61896/paul-potts-vows-to-clear-debts.html

http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=646496&cache=1

[Kelda]

[youtube=425,350]http://youtube.com/watch?v=i0dzZTPWrSM[/youtube]
[youtube=425,350]http://youtube.com/watch?v=nHYYz_mGP1U[/youtube]

This was his big competition on the night - everyoe thought this little cutie wold win,

[youtube=425,350]http://youtube.com/watch?v=QWNoiVrJDsE[/youtube]

[Ellemeno]

That guy is beautiful.  Thanks, Kelda, for posting the YouTube clips.  'Course he was might smart in his choice of songs - known weep-inducers.  Still he and his singing are lovely.

[Katie77]

Was very intrigued to see the you tube clip of Paul Potts, and I agree, he has a great voice, and that song Nesun Dorma, is one of the most beautiful songs ever written.......

And its very intersting, and I wonder if there is any coincidence, that the bloke who won our Australian Idol, last year, also sang the same song, on the second last night of competition, and subsequently won the title of Australian Idol, the following week....He too, was just a bloke working in a factory, and he sang a variety of songs thru the competion...Roy Orbison's  Crying.....Chris Isaac's Wicked Games....and the best love song of all...Unchained Melody.....as well as many others that he did full justice to, and then to finish it off with an opera song like Nesun Dorma....well there was no way he could lose...(and, not meaning to take anything away from Paul Potts, I think our bloke was better)....

But, we cant take all the credit, Damien Leith is an Irishman, living in Australia, married to an Australian, and now an Australian citizen.

I have been fortunate enough to go see him in live concert since he won Idol, and once again, was in awe of his talent.

His name is DAMIEN LEITH........remember it....look it up on youtube if you are interested......DAMIEN LEITH.......

[Shakesthecoffecan]

Katie, it is good to hear from you, and Janice I got your post card in the mail today. I love those rocky beaches of your homeland, and the rainy weather. It is like Ireland, but with trees. do you all ever go to the beach and sun bathe I wonder?

I am in a quandry this evening. Tired from a day of running around seeing to the worlds needs. I regret not spending more time here in this community which is just as real to me and as important as anything else in my life could be. And then there is RL. Sometimes trying to describe something I have learned here or seem go on just does not translate to the people I am talking to. And I find I do not have the time to sit and thoughtfully read thru peoples posts like I should, scanning them to get the gist I realize I am letting my time here become another job.

Life seems to be a constatnt propcess of making new resolutions, rededication oneself to do better. I think that will never change.

I had a call from Celeste last weekend, Yaadpyar who used to be a moderator here. I saved her number, but tomorrow it will be a week and I have yet to call her back. I feel bad about that, but I will, and I want to. I want to hear how she has been doing, if she has heard from Ray, where she has been lately.

Well, Sunday is the 24th, I'll go up on the mountain and have a little toast in honor of "this thing". You know the story has seased being the be all and end all for me, now it is the circle of friends that came with it.

[ifyoucantfixit]

          Well yeah we do.. Not too much however, I have never been much of a sun worshiper.
I like the wet and rainey weather, much better.  Thats why we moved to Oregon in the first place.
We prefer the cool...I am so fair, I burn easily..But our beaches are beautiful just to look at..
Im glad you liked it...I tried to pick cards to fit the people.. but still show Oregon/  Maybe they arent what the true intent of the cards were.  But it was mine.

[Kelda]

Please tell Yap i was aksing for her and tell her to tell ray the same!

Shakes - you do what you can do and thats good enough for us. You're posts are always so thoughtful and heartfelt - thats what I love about looking at your blog.

[Shakesthecoffecan]

Last night I realized it had been a year since my trip to Wyoming. I went and checked my picture dates and sure enough, last night one year ago I was eating supper with wyane and Joe and Judy at the Virginian Resturant at the Occidental Hotel in Buffalo, Wyoming.

And this morning, piling into an Impala, a young french lady approached us and asked Judy "Are you cabin 22?" "I am Mouk" she told us, come from the other side of the world to make that trip on the Zig Zagged road to Lightnin' Flat.

Bless you my friends.