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@sheba2011

The spoonbill is seen here every so often on the other side of the lake. There are times that I actually use our binoculars to see her/him. A magnificent bird and oh so pink in color. I make sure to have shrimp all the time, just in case. I serve them raw and just put them under warm water to thaw a bit. Just have to keep the gulls and storks away, which, at times, is quite difficult.

This week has flown. Tomorrow is trivia and I promise to get plenty of rest. I am ever so happy that everything turned out better than OK for you. I have been doing a victory dance since you told us. Keep up whatever you are doing and hopefully your mouth is better as well.

@shoelady60,

OMG! The turkey comment is hilarious 😂. Wishing you and your family all the best.

We all will be cooking and etc, etc, this weekend. Well all the leaves are gone.

I hope you and hubby and Jake are having a good evening. Thanks for the chuckle. 😘

Wanna try???

Queen
“Bohemian Rhapsody”

Is this the real life?
Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide,
No escape from reality.

Open your eyes,
Look up to the skies and see,
I’m just a poor boy, I need no sympathy,
Because I’m easy come, easy go,
Little high, little low,
Any way the wind blows doesn’t really matter to me, to me.

Mama, just killed a man,
Put a gun against his head,
Pulled my trigger, now he’s dead.
Mama, life had just begun,
But now I’ve gone and thrown it all away.

Mama, ooh,
Didn’t mean to make you cry,
If I’m not back again this time tomorrow,
Carry on, carry on as if nothing really matters.

Too late, my time has come,
Sends shivers down my spine,
Body’s aching all the time.
Goodbye, everybody, I’ve got to go,
Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth.

Mama, ooh (Any way the wind blows),
I don’t want to die,
I sometimes wish I’d never been born at all.

I see a little silhouetto of a man,
Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the Fandango?
Thunderbolt and lightning very, very frightening me.
(Galileo) Galileo.
(Galileo) Galileo,
Galileo Figaro
Magnifico-o-o-o-o.

I’m just a poor boy, nobody loves me.
He’s just a poor boy from a poor family,
Spare him his life from this monstrosity.

Easy come, easy go, will you let me go?
Bismillah! No, we will not let you go. (Let him go!)
Bismillah! We will not let you go. (Let him go!)
Bismillah! We will not let you go. (Let me go!)
Will not let you go. (Let me go!)
Never let you go (Never, never, never, never let me go)
Oh oh oh oh
No, no, no, no, no, no, no
Oh, mama mia, mama mia (Mama mia, let me go.)
Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me, for me, for me.

So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye?
So you think you can love me and leave me to die?
Oh, baby, can’t do this to me, baby,
Just gotta get out, just gotta get right outta here.

(Ooooh, ooh yeah, ooh yeah)

Nothing really matters,
Anyone can see,
Nothing really matters,
Nothing really matters to me.

Any way the wind blows…

Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” – a powerful priceless six-minute suite of opera rock about a young man who’s killed someone, sold his soul to Devil and wants to know if Scaramouche can do the Fandango – remains one of Queen’s most popular work and is placed on lists of the greatest songs of all time. (Scaramouche is a stock clown character of Italian literature. Fandango is a lively couples dance from Spain.)

Freddie Mercury revealed in an interview that “there was a time when the others wanted to chop “Bohemian Rhapsody” around a bit, but I refused”. EMI and Elektra both tried to cut chunks off the song. Roger Taylor says: “They said “Bohemian Rhapsody” was too long and wouldn’t work. We thought, “Well we could cut it, but it wouldn’t make any sense”, it doesn’t make much sense now and it would make even less sense then; you would miss all the different moods of the song. So we said no. It’ll either fly or it won’t.”

In 1975 “Bohemian Rhapsody” was the most expensive single ever made.
Freddie Mercury refused to give an explanation of his lyrics other than saying “Bohemian Rhapsody” was about relationships.

Killer Queen
Song by Queen

She keeps her Moet et Chandon
In her pretty cabinet
“Let them eat cake”, she says
Just like Marie Antoinette
A built-in remedy
For Khrushchev and Kennedy
At anytime an invitation
You can’t decline
Caviar and cigarettes
Well versed in etiquette
Extraordinarily nice
She’s a Killer Queen
Gunpowder, gelatine
Dynamite with a laser beam
Guaranteed to blow your mind
Anytime
Recommended at the price
Insatiable an appetite
Wanna try?
To avoid complications
She never kept the same address
In conversation
She spoke just like a baroness
Met a man from China
Went down to Geisha Minah
Then again incidentally
If you’re that way inclined
Perfume came naturally from Paris (naturally)
For cars she couldn’t care less
Fastidious and precise
She’s a Killer Queen
Gunpowder, gelatine
Dynamite with a laser beam
Guaranteed to blow your mind
Anytime
Drop of a hat she’s as willing as
Playful as a cat
Then momentarily out of action
Temporarily out of gas
To absolutely drive you wild, wild
She’s all out to get you
She’s a Killer Queen
Gunpowder, gelatine
Dynamite with a laser beam
Guaranteed to blow your mind
Anytime
Recommended at the price
Insatiable an appetite
Wanna try?
You wanna try

We Are the Champions
Song by Queen

I’ve paid my dues
Time after time
I’ve done my sentence
But committed no crime
And bad mistakes
I’ve made a few
I’ve had my share of sand kicked in my face
But I’ve come through
(And I need to go on and on, and on, and on)
We are the champions, my friends
And we’ll keep on fighting ’til the end
We are the champions
We are the champions
No time for losers
‘Cause we are the champions
Of the world
I’ve taken my bows
And my curtain calls
You brought me fame and fortune and everything that goes with it
I thank you all
But it’s been no bed of roses
No pleasure cruise
I consider it a challenge before the whole human race
And I ain’t gonna lose
(And I need just go on and on, and on, and on)
We are the champions, my friends
And we’ll keep on fighting ’til the end
We are the champions
We are the champions
No time for losers
‘Cause we are the champions
Of the world
We are the champions, my friends
And we’ll keep on fighting ’til the end
Oh, we are the champions
We are the champions
No time for losers
‘Cause we are the champions

MAC

Club Sheba

Note to self:

@oodiebom,

I forgot to thank you for the spoonbills it’s this thread good luck charm. 😘

@oodiebom,

This little cutie or a cute pooch will be yours when the time is right for you. 😘🌹

Get your beauty winks as Trivia is tomorrow. I did leave Dsshoppy a note on this
thread. I thought it was sweet of her and it is not the first time she has made a thread
to reach out to me. So nice.

@sheba2011

Hi to you in Oz. Sunny and 60 here, I will take it for November. Very happy you got an early Christmas present yesterday.🎁💝

Your daughter’s new pup is adorable! Glad she was ready to be a mom again. I took five years off from my last one but I was also volunteering at the shelter so I was still around many every week. But once Jake was in my house that was it, he was mine!!💗 Now you need to work on your sister – there are so many out there to love.

Let me be the first to wish you, husband and Poppy a Happy Thanksgiving. Nothing says gratitude like a turkey with bread up its bu**!!🦃

@sheba2011

I would love something furry. I just wish there was a way to have a four legged friend in his house. But the only way is to have a physician write something as to a reason that one is needed. Homes in Florida are selling fast and at prices that exceed the ones in New England. A new condo starts at 500k and new homes above that. With the virus hanging around you would think people would not be out and about. Guess I’ve been outsmarted.

Nice to see a compliment for a change in Community. I left a message for ddshoppy as well. You can tell she is always with a smile. Hope we will see her in trivia tomorrow night.

Really happy to see your daughter has a new four-leeged child. Did she name her yet. I also hope that she will not be venturing away from home too soon. It’s getting to the point where being in your own home could be a problem. Well, at least we may have a cure just around the next corner. My only question about getting the shot is if hubby and I have enough antibodies to not need anything at this time. We both have appointments very soon with our physician and that will be one of our questions.

Enough of the doldrums. It’s a sunny, but a cool day in Florida. We have not used the A/C since Sunday. The house temperature has stayed at 74 degrees and believe it or not, it is quite comfortable. No need to touch the thermostat.

Brand-New Day

We can start fresh in this very moment, not needing to wait for a new day to start anew.

When today is not going well, it is tempting to focus on tomorrow as a blank slate with all the possibilities that newness provides. It is true that tomorrow will be a brand-new day, but we do not have to wait until tomorrow to start fresh. We can start fresh at any moment, clearing our energy field of any negativity that has accumulated, and call this very moment the beginning of our brand-new day.

There is something about the sunrise and the first few hours of the morning that make us feel cleansed and rejuvenated, ready to move forward enthusiastically. As the day wears on, we lose some of this dynamic energy and the inspiration it provides. This may be why we look forward to tomorrow as providing the possibility of renewal. Many traditions consider the light of the rising sun to be particularly divine in its origins; this is why so many people in the world face east when performing ritual. We too can cultivate that rising sun energy inside ourselves, carrying it with us to light our way through any time of day or night, drawing on its power to awaken and renew our spirits.

One simple way to do this is to carry an image or a photograph of the rising sun with us in our wallet or purse. We can also post this image on our wall at work or at home, or have it as our screensaver on our computer. When we feel the need to start fresh, we can take a moment to gaze at the image, allowing its light to enter into our hearts. As we do this, we might say out loud or quietly to ourselves, I am ready to let go of the past and start anew. We might visualize anything we want to release leaving us as we exhale, and as we inhale, we can take in the fresh energy of the eastern sun, allowing it to light the way to a brand-new day.

@kittengirl,

Thinking of you and your family during this time. Sending kitty hugs. Please be safe
in California. 🌹