Monday, August 21, 2017

Spent the day like many, but with in a little bit different way...

...to accomplish the same thing watching the century marvel of a solar eclipse!
Hubby watched part of it as I had, but in two different locales. He was in the living room on ABC TV and I was in the bedroom, but also on ABC TV, and news man David Muir as host, and then later on we both switched to NBC TV and Lester Holt as the host, both were doing cross country coverage from Oregon on the northwest coast to South Carolina in the southeast the track of the eclipse.
Due to heat, triple digits feel like temps again and not even bothering getting glasses to view this century event we opted for watching on the TVs, and we did not miss any of it and felt safe and comfortable from where we viewed this historic astrophysical scientific event.
Always good to be informed.
After it was all over I could have kicked myself for not planning better, since we do have an observatory at our local college campus Florida Southwestern College in Punta Gorda that made the news that we were watching where people were watching right from there.
But all in all, we all seem to agree that the solar eclipse was pretty darn cool, by popular commentary!

Oh well... in actuality, we, did have front row seats too, in our own home, and I have been feeling rather poorly, so our choice was appropriate for us.
Arms weaker, shimmering eyesight as if in an earthquake vision, shaky!
Downright weird!
Tired, is an understatement.
Enough of that non-interesting conversation... my Dad's bowling alley, bar, snack bar and restaurant's name was the Eclipse. And no, I do not know if they named it and they, he and his three cousins bought in 1947 before I was born and oddly enough I never asked, why the Eclipse?
I suppose as I grew up I thought because it was mostly a night club and night time bowling alley, except on Saturdays when as a teenager I worked the snack bar at fifteen for the kids bowling league.

Dad's bar had a band at night with mostly Dixieland music, odd in Hasbrouck Heights NJ, and a dance floor too, with a screen that came down over the bar with lyrics to songs with a bouncing ball to sing along, a small stage that I sang at once. I do not recall why I never did again, but no one told me not to or asked me to again, well like last night's little story; not saying anything speaks volumes.
Although, I was Peter Pan at camp and my rendition of I won't grow up won us the pennant one week for our whole team when I was around ten. I also sang in school choir for seven years and led all the singing on the camp bus, so I guess I wasn't too bad.
I did take voice lessons from my neighbor, two houses down from us, who was Tuptim, her stage name was Rose Rosette in the original King and I on Broadway in  NYC with Yule Brenner and Jan Clayton as Anna. Her son Dean Friedman was my singing partner and we sang I am sixteen from the Sound of Music together although he was five years younger than I.
I guess my singing, dancing and piano lessons for many years of each were for the fun/joy of it all not a professional career!
Although, Dean Friedman, my singing partner via his Mom to this day he is a pro, he had a big hit in the early nineties, Ariel, and appeared on Merv Griffin TV Show, like Ellen show except he could sing and play the piano, and Dean still is a big hit all over the UK
I did not really tap into those experiences of living in a neighborhood with people who worked in TV and Broadway until I worked in a promotion agency in the early 1990's in Daytona Florida, as an entertainment manager, which entailed booking bands in clubs, hotels and colleges, reggae and alternative way back when,  as well as for special events for weddings and New Year's Eve etc, as well as for Bike week, old rock and roll, and NASCAR, country, even got to work with MTV and did makeup for local actors for a tourist bureau commercial and helped to cast actors for a national Old Milwaukee Beer commercial that among other things included an old Volkswagen bus and Winnebago driven on our beach that was what was everyone did and was allowed, before some horrid incidents/accidents occurred, although. people might still drive on it; we haven't been there for awhile. Passed through two years ago to see our two old houses beachside over the Granada bridge we lived a mile and half up A1A/Ocean Shore Blvd, one house down from there across the street from the ocean, 600 feet from it, where our boys surfed, and on the other side was the Halifax River where they water skied, fun years for our sons, who also had their SCUBA certifications too!

Those were the days... ah memories that I have written about before, boy I am getting very, very old when I repeat all this.
Sorry! Please forgive!
I recalled our Number One Son water skiing behind our Bayliner boat with dolphins leaping over the waves behind him. Gosh that was probably way back in the late 1980s when he was still a teenager. Our younger son who was also very apt in the sport was in the boat when it happened and we both pointed behind him, #1, Hubby was driving the boat, and Number One let go of the rope and we yelled for Hubby to turn around to pick him up; he had superbly landed on a sandy beach, but didn't know why we were yelling until we picked him up! All taped on our old filming super 8 camera, although where it is now, sadly I could not tell you! Though many a friend and family member was shown it countless times and found it really neat too!
One of my FB friends had posted one similar recently with a dolphin leaping the waves behind a boat that triggered that memory I suppose.

That is enough of that for tonight!

Have a wonderful happy good night and share all those blessings and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!

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