Get lucky

I saw this on the news this AM & thought I'd share it and a couple other favorite videos to get your toes tappin'.


Stephen Colbert and some very famous faces in "Get Lucky."
Will Smith's daughter Willow.
Who knew they were making a film about moi??

So relieved Wellesley is over, no more commuting back & forth, but no more free food & AC either. Really enjoying the R&R.

O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!

This is how I feel now that Wellesley is well and truly over, and the temps have mitigated.

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

"Beware the Jabberwock, my son
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"

He took his vorpal sword in hand;
Long time the manxome foe he sought –
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.

And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!

One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.

"And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!"
He chortled in his joy.

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

It could have been me

In case you, like moi, missed President Obama's heartfelt talk on the Trayvon Martin murder, I include it here.

Having been followed because I was holding hands with my boyfriend, and having had things thrown at me/us for the same reason I can't help but think, while the results of those confrontations were nowhere near as tragic as Mr. Martin's case, had those people had guns things might have turned out much differently. We have much to do as a nation and as a world to eliminate hatred.

Butterfly weed

One of my favorite flowers in the side yard is the butterfly weed, one of the only things beside the Sweet William that remains of the "garden in a can" that I strew about the place shortly after I moved here almost a quarter century ago (Good God). I can just see the elves & faeries dancing in the ring.

We were blessed with a sea breeze today, which knocked back the temps from the mid-90s to the mid-80s by the time I got back from Somerville and Cambridge where it was much hotter, though they seem to have cooled off now, too. Feels like temp is still 90F with the dewpoint of 74F. 99F forecast for tomorrow. Fingers crosses mother nature takes pity on us again.

The Composers Conference starts Monday. Temps forecast for the beginning of the week in the 80s. Fingers crossed (again) that we can hold onto that the entire next two weeks!

Our house

Is a very, very, very fine house. Shots from the garden taken a couple days ago.

Gorgeous out there now. Soaking up the coolness in anticipation of another hellish spread of 90+ degree days (and ridiculously high humidity) all next week, though there's a rumor of sea breezes keeping those of us near the coast a bit cooler. Fingers crossed.

Knitting lessons

Howdja like to learn to knit from him? Hubba, hubba!

Dewpoint 75F, heading up to the upper 80s today & another heat wave (90+F for three or more days) forecast for next week. Will this summer heat horror never end?

It's how big?

Texas governor Rick Perry