hahaha

Thank you very much!

Chewin on biscotti, heard about a sale
A store was open, sellin flowers in a pail
There was somethin grand and I began to think
I could'a could'a should'a should'a brought my mastercard.
The decision's so hard
Everybody within fifteen blocks, was prancing to the greenhouse Phlox

Number 47 said to number 3,
"What I gotta give ya, will ya trade with me?"
Sure would be delighted with your number 3
Come on and do a greenhouse swap with me, let's swap
Anybody? Let's swap!
Everybody within fifteen blocks, was prancing to the greenhouse Phlox
- Elvis

ha!

That time of year.

99 tomatoes on the table
99 tomatoes..
if one tomato should happen to fall, 98 tomatoes on the table

My tomatoes are not quite ready yet, but I do have...

99 squash/courgette/zucchini/marrow on the table...

Oh no! What to do? I froze some.last year but did not like the results later.

So far, I've been baking lots and lots of squash cakes - they keep well in the freezer.

Anticipation, etiolation,
is making stems faint
it's keeping them fading

Aloe mudda
Aloe fadda
Get me back to Ensenada
Someone took me
Where it's humid
And I really truly
Think my owner's stupid

That's a take off on one of my all time favorite novelty songs! (I have the original version memorized. )
I love your aloe as the "unhappy camper" version.

Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it. : )

That was Tiffany!
I remember that original too.

Thank you very much! : )

Dill be bloomin 'round the fountain when spring comes
Dill be bloomin 'round the fountain when spring comes
Dill be bloomin 'round the fountain
Dill be bloomin 'round the fountain
Dill be bloomin 'round the fountain when spring comes

Well it rained all day before the night
Jack Frost came one last time
The sun so hot, I burned my neck
Oh gardeners, don't you cry
Oh you gardeners
Oh don't you cry for me
Though I moved to Alabama
And weeds got me on my knees

Ha, great choice, Tiffany! — a parody of a parody! For those who are unfamiliar, Allan Sherman was the Weird Al Yankovic of the 1960s. I think "Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah" was the song that launched him to commercial fame. The long suffering melody had also been notably featured as the ballet of the hippos in Disney's movie Fantasia from 1940.

Although officially it's the ballet Dance of the Hours from the Opera "La Gioconda" by Amilcare Ponchielli, whenever I hear it I get a bizarre mental image of cartoon animals dancing to kids singing about nightmare summer camp. Tiff, you've now added another mental layer!

And as a professional violinist, can I just say, that piece is b#*&tch to play? Very tricky! But I've loved the original, and the hippos and the unhappy camper versions of it all my life…
Take…Me…Home…oh Muddah, Fadduh…

"... don't...leave...me...out in the forest where....I might...get eaten by a bear"