That Little Backyard Bunny

This has been a particularly good year for rabbits in our backyard and all across the neighborhood. Everyday throughout the day and especially in the evenings we usually have three bunnies in our backyard or our adjacent neighbors yards. Now we have the baby bunnies too. One little one in particular appears to live under the hostas in our garden. This bunny is cautious but has grown used to us and only runs away if we get right up to it. Most of the time the bunny just continues nibbling on the leaves in the lawn and goes about it's business.

When we go for a walk around the neighborhood there are bunnies everywhere but in particular around the corner of Crescent and Jewett where we can always see about six to eight of them on the front lawns.

It's going to be fun when Katie and the kids come later this month and get to see the bunnies in the yards and going for bunny counting walks.

Lit Up - Songs 1994 FV

Lit Up. Another mix of songs from albums released in 1994 in my collection. Deep cuts in this mix.

Lush in the pic.

Lit Up - Songs 1994 FV

1. Lit Up - Lush
2. Coax Me - Sloan
3. From Time To Time - Ride
4. Change In The Weather - Love Spit Love
5. Seether - Veruca Salt
6. Basket Case - Green Day
7. Tomorrow - James
8. Black Hold Sun - Soundgarden
9. Thera - Versus
10. New Generation - Suede
11. X-Ray Man - Liz Phair
12. Drug Girls - Velocity Girl
13. Bring Me Your Love - Deee-Lite
14. Where Is The Feeling - Kylie Minogue
15. Dream On Dreamer - The Brand New Heavies
16. Baby's Got Sauce - G. Love & Special Sauce
17. Glory Box - Portishead
18. Dream Figure - Cardinal
19. London's Brilliant Parade - Elvis Costello
20. Wildcat Days - Bryan Ferry
21. Sir Rockaby - Frank Black
22. Close Your Eyes - Kristin Hersh

My True Story - Covers FV

My True Story is another mix of cover songs from my Final Version series. Starts out with some soul music and moves on.

Aaron Neville in the pic singing My True Story

My True Story - Covers FV

1. My True Story – Aaron Neville (The Jive Five)
2. Neither One of Us – Hall & Oates (Gladys Knight & The Pips)
3. At Last – Aretha Franklin (Etta James)
4. It’s All in The Game – The Four Tops (Tommy Edwards)
5. How Can You Mend a Broken Heart – Al Green (Bee Gees)
6. You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’ – Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood (The Righteous Brothers)
7. Isn’t It a Pity – Bettye LaVette (George Harrison)
8. Dedicated to the One I Love – Lucinda Williams & Steve Winwood (The “5” Royales)
9. Didn’t I Blow Your Mind This Time? – B.E.F. (The Delfonics)
10. The Wind Cries Mary – Sting (Jimi Hendrix)
11. Thin Line Between Love and Hate – Annie Lennox (The Persuaders)
12. Shout – Duncan Sheik (Tears For Fears)
13. (Nothing But) Flowers – Caetano Veloso (Talking Heads)
14. Have You Ever Seen The Rain? – Allison Moorer (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
15. Box of Rain – Kurt Vile & J Mascis (Grateful Dead)
16. My Back Pages – Marshall Crenshaw (Bob Dylan)
17. Well… All Right – Albert Hammond, Jr. (Buddy Holly)
18. Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) – The Fiery Furnaces (The Beatles)
19. Tupelo Honey – JJ Grey & Mofro (Van Morrison)
20. I Can See Clearly Now – Hothouse Flowers (Johnny Nash)
21. Let’s Live For Today – The dB’s (The Grass Roots)
22. Rock & Roll – Hollis Brown (The Velvet Underground)

Record Album Cleanup

Over the past few days I've been doing some cleanup on the third floor in what had been the music room. Since Becky has been moving her art studio from Hertel Ave to our third floor there has been much to do to make room for her artwork and the ability to work from home.

One of the things I've been doing has been reorganizing the records and CDs. I had to take all of the records down from their shelves and put them back in the proper order. Over the years they had stopped being in alphabetical order as I moved things around. Now I'm putting them back where they belong and tightening up the space issues too.

I've moved some of the CD shelves to make room for a work table for Becky.

Eventually I will be looking to move the LPs out of this space and probably sell them to a record store as our kids don't want them.

Lots of CDs to go too. Maybe Little Libraries!

Lawn Mushroom

Here is a mushroom growing on our front lawn. This is a nice one. It doesn't happen very often but they do pop up occasionally. Usually they grow closer to the ground than this one. These mushrooms are remnants of the old elm tree that came down quite a few years ago. There are still some roots below the ground and the mushrooms are coming up from those roots. There are not as many now since the city put in a new sidewalk in front of our house and dug up a lot of those roots in the process. We still see a mushroom every now and then.

Dark & Long - Songs 1994 FV

Dark & Long and intense with a heavy beat. Hits, deep cuts and some covers too. More songs from albums in my collection released in 1994. An interesting year in music.

The electronic duo Underworld in the pic.

Dark & Long - Songs 1994 FV

1. Dark & Long - Underworld
2. Where Has The Love Gone - Kylie Minogue
3. Back In The Box- David Byrne
4. Have A Good Time - The Brand New Heavies
5. Better Things - Massive Attack
6. Picnic In The Summertime - Deee-Lite
7. Run To The Sun - Erasure
8. Big Fat Funky Booty - Spin Doctors
9. I'll Take You There - General Public
10. Gimme Some Truth - Sam Phillips
11. Wall of Death - R.E.M.
12. Numb - Portishead
13. Closer - Nine Inch Nails
14. Zombie - The Cranberries
15. Pale Movie - Saint Etienne
16. Secret - Madonna
17. Jailbird - Primal Scream
18. Ultrasuede - Matthew Sweet
19. Interstate Love Song - Stone Temple Pilots
20. Thank You For Hearing Me - Sinead O'Connor

Scrambled Eggs & Home Fries

Scrambled eggs and home fried potatoes. One of Becky's wonderful dinners that I love so much. Soul food for the heart.

I especially love this dinner with a good dollop of Trader Joe's BBQ Sriracha sauce.

People Get Ready - Covers FV

Another covers mix. An hour and a half as usual and part of my Final Version series.

Starts off with some political covers before getting into the party.

People Get Ready - Covers FV

1. People Get Ready – The Chambers Brothers (Curtis Mayfield)
2. Blowin’ in the Wind – Edwin Hawkins Singers (Bob Dylan)
3. Political World – Carolina Chocolate Drops (Bob Dylan)
4. Time Has Come Today – Steve Earle & Sheryl Crow (The Chambers Brothers)
5. People Got To Be Free – Melanie (The Rascals)
6. Something in the Air – Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers (Thunderclap Newman)
7. Mr. Jones (Ballad of a Thin Man) – The Grass Roots (Bob Dylan)
8. A Change is Gonna Come – The Band (Sam Cooke)
9. Spirit in the Sky – Elton John (Norman Greenbaum)
10. Instant Karma – U2 (John Lennon)
11. Highway 61 Revisited – Karen O & The Million Dollar Bashers (Bob Dylan)
12. Stormy Weather – Reigning Sound (Lena Horne)
13. Shake Some Action – Cracker (Flamin’ Groovies)
14. Dancing in the Street – David Bowie & Mick Jagger (Martha & The Vandellas)
15. All The Young Dudes – The Church (Mott The Hoople)
16. Needles & Pins – The Ramones (The Searchers)
17. I Am The Walrus – Spooky Tooth (The Beatles)
18. While My Guitar Gently Weeps – Carlos Santana (The Beatles)
19. Friday On My Mind – Richard Thompson (The Easybeats)
20. Making Plans For Nigel – The Rembrandts (XTC)
21. Private Life – Grace Jones (Pretenders)
22. Redemption Song – Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros (Bob Marley)

Fried Rice & Scallion Pancakes

Becky made a wonderful Asian dinner tonight. Fried rice and scallion pancakes. Delicious.

Cafe 59 Tonight

It was a Thursday evening after a busy day and we decided to go out for dinner. After a brief discussion we picked one of our favorite laid back restaurants Cafe 59 on Allen Street. It was a good time to head down to that neighborhood for a meal as it was just before the coming Allentown Arts Festival this weekend. Last weekend it was very busy because of the Pride Parade. So we went down at 5:30 on a Thursday evening and it was somewhat quiet although it was busy enough that we couldn't get our favorite table by the front window and of course as always we ran into someone there having dinner that we knew and chatted for a bit.

We also had some dinners that we've already had there before. Old favorites. I had there delicious fish and chips which I love. Becky had their chicken finger wrap. It was all very good as usual. We enjoyed a very relaxing meal in one of our favorite places.  I had a Zero Gravity Lager and then a Alagash White wheat beer.

We got home a little after 7 pm and enjoyed some more of the evening sitting on the porch.