Monday Morning

It's 8:10 a.m. and I'm sitting here with a cup of green tea. Have already deleted a sentence I was going to share about a certain body part but I decided that I really don't need to share everything. Well, sometimes I do.  Rooftops are frosty again but the hummingbirds are flittering at the feeder so I guess they're getting something out. I can't remember what all went on in my dreams last night (aren't you glad?) Nothing quite so boring as someone elses dream.  I figure something was going on as far as cleaning went because as soon as I was dressed, I started  wiping down places throughout the house.  The bathroom vanity, the mirror (large), the tv, my camera, my phone, certain doors, the vertical blinds, the handle that pulls them, my laptop, my mouse, my calculator, thermostats...well, you get the picture.

I hear heavy machinery running nearby.  I live on a road that is kinda deadend but not. You can take this winding dirt road up to this street (18th I think --by the airport and fairgrounds) that leads to a regular paved road. Anyhow, this winding dirt road is graded and graveled every year. Makes it hard to drive on for a couple weeks but I suppose that's what they have to do.  Wish they would just pave it and be done with it as it's used a lot.  I don't really know why I'm even sharing this. Oh, now I know. Because I've got little to relate today.  As usual.

I plan on searching around for genealogy clues later today, do some work on a craft kit, maybe finish a book, and sew.  I do have a jigsaw puzzle I could set up too so I may think about that.  I gave away huge sacks of material when I downsized but kept enough to play with.  Anytime I get done with some small project, I keep ALL the scraps unless they are so tiny they're useless.  When I have a supply of scraps accumulated, I start sewing them together.  It's relaxing most of the time. You sew two straight sides together, clip, press, and go from there.  So far I have ten squares made. I'm making them 6x6 and will eventually make into a table runner, wall hanging, or quilt.  They're so colorful.

I have a few rocks waiting for me out on the deck too so at some point, I will pull out the paints and see what I can make.  I had Julia & Julia on yesterday and after watching her blog, I decided I needed to try and spiffy up mine so it's not quite so dull all the time.  But then again, I think you have to be out and about doing stuff and  meeting people to make blogs interesting and I'm not all that keen on doing that. Kind of like the exercises I tell myself every single night that I'm going to do the next day--and don't!

At any rate, to start, I'm going to relate stories from this book I've had for years called "The Billboard Book of Number One Hits". It starts with 1955 and goes to 1985.  Mainly it talks about the singers who made the hits and I've always found that topic of interest.  I'll probably skip over some of the material like Elvis because we've pretty much heard everything there is to know about him.  

I'll start with Perry Como whose song "Round and Round" was number one the week of April 6, 1957.  He was born Pierino Roland Como in 1912 in Canonsburg, Penn. He was the 7th son of a 7th son, the first of his folk's 13 kids to be born in the US. He avoided working in the coal mines by becoming an apprentice barber at age 11.  When he was 14 he opened his own shop where customers received a shave, haircut and song. Seven years later he auditioned for this band and gave up his security of $125 a week as a barber. Eventually a network radio  offered him a show, nightclub bookings, and a chance to sign with RCA Victor. His NBC radio show "The Chesterfield Supper Club" and his TV series  followed in 1948. Unlike many of his contemporaries he never criticized rock and roll and during the course of his hit show, he had guests like Fats Domino, The Everly Brothers, Brenda Lee, Conway Twitty, Paul Anka, Fabian, Connie Francis, and Bobby Rydell.

He died in 2001 just a few days before his 89th birthday of Alzheimers.