Shakespeare and Weather (More)
“Blow, blow, thou winter wind,
Thou art not so unkind
As man’s ingratitude.”
“Could he have written that if he’d been from Yuma, Arizona?” Admin says.
“Oh, no – not Yuma again?” says Spence. There’s wind in Yuma, by the way. And ingratitude, too, most likely.”
“Very different kind of wind. And Yuma winter is not what Shakespeare would have called winter.”
“Your point?”
“Simply that there may be even at this very moment a thwarted Yuma Shakespeare.”
Note: Still working on a fix for the Friends gallery. No uploading possible at this time.
Tags: As You Like It, Shakespeare, weather, Yuma
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8:55 am on October 2nd, 2014
Good morning, everyone! Shakespeare’s wind,huh? (No Rio, not that wind.) How about, “Blow wind and crack your cheeks! Rage! Blow!”
Have a windy Wednesday.
(-King Lear)
9:09 am on October 2nd, 2014
Oops, it is Thursday 🙁 So much for being clever.
9:31 am on October 2nd, 2014
Running late. Must go like the wind to work place. Catch up with everyone tonight. Have a great day, whether it is Wednesday or Thursday.
9:34 am on October 2nd, 2014
Good morning all.
I am feeling winded today. (Does that count?)
9:42 am on October 2nd, 2014
Why Yuma? Actually I like, “You are not worth the dust which the rude wind/ Blows in your face” (King Lear, Act 4, Scene 2, Line 30).
Good morning all.
9:47 am on October 2nd, 2014
We may not be long winded, but we are a wndy group so far today.
10:12 am on October 2nd, 2014
Alas, laundry and household finances beckon. I come, anon!
BBL
10:23 am on October 2nd, 2014
Admin!….Once Admin gets hold of something he does not let go. Sort of like Beau….snort!
10:31 am on October 2nd, 2014
Just a sweet story that hopefully may bring a smile to your face this October morning.
We received a very nice gift yesterday from the people who adopted Rascal, thanking us for some of the gifts we had given Rascal and, more importantly, for helping them find Rascal (we had given them the name of Teddy’s breeder after their precious Charlie had died earlier this year of lymphoma). The gifts for us included a ball chucker for Teddy and a very special bottle of wine, which was the same wine they had enjoyed one evening shortly before picking up Rascal. The wine in question was a Pinot Noir from Oregon, and the label on the bottle was very distinctive in that it had an outline of a golden retriever on it, with a halo over its head. Looking at the dog with the halo, they felt it was Charlie who was letting them know that they were doing the right thing. The brand name of the bottle of wine – you guessed it, it was called Rascal.
10:45 am on October 2nd, 2014
Good morning, All.
Wookie’s and Teddy’s Dad: that story did bring a smile, and also a tear. Thanks for sharing.
10:48 am on October 2nd, 2014
Awwww, what a sweet story!
Barb, in answer to your question or yester-day, I am not sure why I keep going to the classes, other than dogged stubbornness.
The Ebola hospital is in the same network/chain as the one I use, but it is in (shudder) Dallas, so I won’t be going anywhere near it.
Have a tenacious Thursday.
10:49 am on October 2nd, 2014
Wookie and Teddy’s Dad – awwwww. That is very sweet. Thanks for sharing.
Not being Shakespearean type Kats, we hadn’t heard that wonderful insult from King Lear. Think of all the “not worth the…” insults you have ever heard. They probably all originated with old Will’s line.
11:02 am on October 2nd, 2014
Had to return for a moment while mom isn’t watching to say thanks to Teddy’s family for a wonderful (teary) story.
Also a quick missive for Rio who says OFA never thinks of him. Here is proof pawsitive you are thought of, from Othello:
“Clown: Are these, I pray you, wind instruments?
First Musician: Ay marry they are, sir.
Clown: O, thereby hangs a tail.
First Musician: Whereby hangs a tail, sir?
Clown: Marry, sir, by many a wind instrument that I know.”
So see, Rio, A book title with a farty pug in mind 🙂
11:14 am on October 2nd, 2014
Title!…Spencer did not know of me when he titled the second book…snort!…Thereby blowing a farty-fart right through your theory…poof!
11:17 am on October 2nd, 2014
WE are sure he “sensed” you 🙂
11:27 am on October 2nd, 2014
“And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe,
And then from hour to hour, we rot and rot:
And thereby hangs a tale” (As You Like It, Act 2, Scene 7, Line 26).
11:38 am on October 2nd, 2014
Good Morning, All! Getting excited about the race. Staff, Mom will be looking over the budget this evening and find something for the Booty fund!
W&T’s Dad, what a wonderful story. A smile and a tear.
11:41 am on October 2nd, 2014
TESTING (having trouble posting)
11:41 am on October 2nd, 2014
Wookie&Teddy: Loved your dad’s Story of the Special Wine. sniff.
OMD. Rio, Shakespeare and OFA writing about you, you, you! What could be better than that? You tell me.
11:42 am on October 2nd, 2014
Carpola!
11:52 am on October 2nd, 2014
Masquers – carpola could be better than that?
(giggle)
12:07 pm on October 2nd, 2014
Herbs: I tell youse, there is something weird going on with this here blog!
12:22 pm on October 2nd, 2014
Blog!…Bugs! Not to be confused with Bed Bugs…snort!
12:34 pm on October 2nd, 2014
Or bed pugs!
1:21 pm on October 2nd, 2014
Checkpoint Update
Yippee! Cherokee is in! Rohn checkpoint has been opened up in honor and memory of Cherokee. We are glad to have this handsome red-headed Siber on our team! We are ready to accept donations of any amount for this checkpoint or any other checkpoint!
Also of note: We have received our first international donation! It is from Trisha in the UK! Thank you to Trisha! I have applied her donation to Melanie’s McGrath checkpoint.
1:27 pm on October 2nd, 2014
Thieves!…snort!
1:30 pm on October 2nd, 2014
One of the least windy places in Alaska is McGrath!
http://www.schooltube.com/video/d29b8301f96e42abb9e9/Mini%20Iditarod,%20McGrath,%20Alaska
1:50 pm on October 2nd, 2014
McGrath! (back in the days when there was snow on the Iditarod Trail)
2:08 pm on October 2nd, 2014
Teddy, That is a very nice story. Thank you. sniff
I do not think of Shakespeare when I think of Yuma, AZ. I think of the historic prison, the movies, and song.
Trish, Thank you for the donation!
2:22 pm on October 2nd, 2014
I like Teddy’s story also but what I’d really like is a bottle of that wine.
2:32 pm on October 2nd, 2014
Me too!
BStover: That is a sweet story about Rascal and I would like to try some Rascal wine.
I have to give a tip of the hat to SiberH because he has again sponsored a checkpoint for Chet the Jet (Shatoolik) and supported Dima and Cherokee’s checkpoint. More to the point, he has no need of stealing his mom’s credit card because he has trained her to write checks to Snowhook without argument!
I will be gone for the afternoon but Checkpoint Central never closes!
2:55 pm on October 2nd, 2014
B, with mom is with you on the bottle of Rascal wine. 🙂
3:31 pm on October 2nd, 2014
I’m back. I have been working on my quilt room and fighting with the insurance co./coding dept at the clinic. grump Now I am catching up with the blog and
Reporting!
The first matching money has come in! Whooo Hooo We matched 20 of the dollars on the table so our official total is 40.00 donated to snowhook Shake your Booty fund.
OMD I am on the computer without the dog pics. I will be right back!
3:42 pm on October 2nd, 2014
Mattie is better each day. Thanks, Plunderers!
3:45 pm on October 2nd, 2014
Someone here will be joining youse in sampling that bottle of wine!
3:46 pm on October 2nd, 2014
Zoe: Hurray for Mattie!
3:47 pm on October 2nd, 2014
Zoe – we are so glad that Mattie is rallying. She will know when it is time. And may that time be far, far away.
3:54 pm on October 2nd, 2014
Zoe, Good News!!
4:12 pm on October 2nd, 2014
Zoe, thank dog for great favors 🙂
4:15 pm on October 2nd, 2014
Zoe that is wonderful to hear. Yay Mattie! Every day is precious.
Annnndddd…. In honor of the first match…
yip yip yippeee!
4:21 pm on October 2nd, 2014
And another Booty donation for 20.00. That makes 20 more dollars matched and so we have 80.00 donated to the Booty fund!!!
Whooo HOoooooo
GO SNOWHOOK!
4:42 pm on October 2nd, 2014
And a Third donation, this time for 50.00, so that ends up being a 100 dollar donation when it is matched.
Thank you wonderful Plunderers!
BOOTY BOOTY BOOTY!
And that means there is a total of 60 left for any happy matchers out there. AND the total of donations so far is 180!!!!
Whoo hoooo.
It is less than 100 dollars to the first prize gift made by our very own artist Amalia….hint hint hint
5:27 pm on October 2nd, 2014
Quig!!!!!
And thank you Siber-H for helping us with Dima’s checkpoint.
5:30 pm on October 2nd, 2014
Siber: You’re the best. sniff.
5:35 pm on October 2nd, 2014
Two guys from our tiny little phone company just knocked on the door. they are here to upgrade the line for our computer to fibre optics. WHoo hoo.
However I will probably be offline sometime today. So if you don’t hear from me until tomorrow a.m. don’t be surprised.
BBL
5:56 pm on October 2nd, 2014
Staff!….How will we get our Booty Updates?…sniff!…I am totally addicted to Checkpoint Updates and Booty Updates…chuffle!
6:04 pm on October 2nd, 2014
Rio: breathe in, breathe out. Now say: Goose Feathers. By the time you figure this out, Staff will be back on line with booty updates 🙂
6:05 pm on October 2nd, 2014
Here’s wishing everyone a pleasant October.
6:40 pm on October 2nd, 2014
Tyb, what a goergeous stingray! We want to hum the theme to Route 66 with George Chakaris and the blond dude. Will there be one of these cars at the corvette museum in Bowling Green, KY? Oh, will it be the one in the sink hole? Do dooo da doo doo, da do dah dooo do!
6:43 pm on October 2nd, 2014
We will chip in$20 to the booty fund. Are there still matching funds available? And how do we let Staff know?
6:46 pm on October 2nd, 2014
Barb used to ride around in a black Vette that looked a lot like that one. She thinks it was a 62 model. She even drove it a few times. That was a major thrill!
Good new from Zoe today.
6:48 pm on October 2nd, 2014
Barb, There are still matching funds available.
Go toward the end of yesterday’s posts and Staff left us an unbelievably long SDD address to let her know about our donations to the booty fund.
6:51 pm on October 2nd, 2014
lol Staff’s SDD address is not that long. I paid closer attention to it today than I did yesterday, and I see now how she wrote it out.
8:16 pm on October 2nd, 2014
SiberH: I love you! You are the only one who sometimes makes me look smart! Wait! I didn’t mean that the way it sounds. Heh. I mean as far as computer knowledge goes, which really, doesn’t go very far at all. Hmmm, think I will shut up now.
Zoe: Tell Mattie I’m sending her a couple of large meatballs.
8:29 pm on October 2nd, 2014
Zoe, we are so happy that Mattie is doing better. Enjoy her! We know you do.
8:36 pm on October 2nd, 2014
Blou in a Corvette for our October Calendar!! WhoooHooo!!!
Thank You, TYB.
8:48 pm on October 2nd, 2014
Updates!…Where are my UPDATES?…gasp!wheeze!
8:49 pm on October 2nd, 2014
SiberH!…Somehow me and my friend, the one I trust to turn the tv to the correct channel, have missed both of the latest play-off games…grump!…When oh when is the next one?…gah!
9:04 pm on October 2nd, 2014
Oh, you poor dog with the wind and the tail and the wind instrument! Relax and all will be revealed unto you…(think Shakespeare) Pfffffft! He was a master of the poot :
9:05 pm on October 2nd, 2014
I did have that email and I have reported to Dawson too, just in case.
9:06 pm on October 2nd, 2014
Rio, On TBS at 7:07 our time is the next game.
Detroit has lost their afternoon game to Baltimore.
9:07 pm on October 2nd, 2014
Bee, Is Gracepoint the new show you are going to watch? We just started it and I think it is going to be really good.
9:15 pm on October 2nd, 2014
Barb: Yes. So far it’s exactly like Broadchurch.
9:16 pm on October 2nd, 2014
SiberH!…Danka, we may be watching some of that game tonight right after something else…grump!
9:22 pm on October 2nd, 2014
We don’t need an Update, Update!
There have been no new checkpoints started since Cherokee opened his this morning.
There has been upward movement on the already opened checkpoints but none are fully funded at this time.
Most of us who plan on sponsoring a whole checkpoint ourselves have now done so and so we settle down for the long haul. This is where all the $5. to $20 donations come in handy and later the nickels, dimes and quarters. Heh!
I will not update except when new checkpoints are sponsored or an existing checkpoint becomes fully funded. Or if I want to. Or, maybe, if y’all demand it.
I will not update after every donation. Carpola! I don’t have time! I’m too busy collecting pledges, and keeping the books updated.
9:25 pm on October 2nd, 2014
I didn’t mean to be so pink!
9:28 pm on October 2nd, 2014
Dawson!…Did you see the SDD I just sent youse?….sniff!
9:32 pm on October 2nd, 2014
Dawson – we think you look good in pink.
9:33 pm on October 2nd, 2014
Wow, Dawson, I don’t know how to do pink.
9:39 pm on October 2nd, 2014
What the pink?
9:44 pm on October 2nd, 2014
Italics!…Pink and Italic is the new “In” way of posting for Canadians…snort!
9:52 pm on October 2nd, 2014
I will say that Melanie is smiling because Martha donated big bucks to her checkpoint! She is a new donator along with Trisha from the UK!
9:54 pm on October 2nd, 2014
Dang! I missed the Tigers ballgame and it sounded like it was a good one.
10:02 pm on October 2nd, 2014
Dawson, If you are a Tigers fan, it was not a good game.
10:06 pm on October 2nd, 2014
Game!…Now we are watching a game we are not that interested in…grump!…We missed all the good games so far…snuffle!…But I believe The Nationals and the Giants will play tomorrow night…snort! …But the channel that is listed is FS1. I have no idea what FS1 is…grunt!
10:23 pm on October 2nd, 2014
Rio, I will check my newspaper in the morning and give you the info on the blog.
10:23 pm on October 2nd, 2014
OK, I just got back from the quilt club meeting and checked and there are booty funds to record. I have to do this carefully so I get the right prize to the right person so bear with me for a moment. The prize in play right now is…..
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a beautiful pair of snowflake earrings!
OK I am off to do some math. BBS (soon)
10:24 pm on October 2nd, 2014
Thursday night has become our new favorite t v night. Bones, Gracepoint and Parenthood all in one night. WOW!
10:30 pm on October 2nd, 2014
Those earrings are beautiful!
10:38 pm on October 2nd, 2014
Staff!…Is Back! Updates are forthcoming….Wooooo!…A Prize will be announced…Yes!
10:49 pm on October 2nd, 2014
The first booty donation was for 25 and with it we get a match so we have added 50 dollars to the booty fund.
WhooHOoo
We are now at 230 dollars funded and we have 35 dollars left to match.
But wait, there’s more!
11:00 pm on October 2nd, 2014
The next booty donation was for 20 and with it we get a match so we have added 40 dollars to the booty fund.
WhooHOoo
We are now at 270 dollars funded and we have 15 dollars left to match. The first prize was to be won when we got to 238 dollars and we did it on this plunderers dime. So congratulations to the winner of the earrings
But wait, there’s more!
11:08 pm on October 2nd, 2014
Wait!…What? Who is the Winner?…gah!
11:18 pm on October 2nd, 2014
Staff – yup, there’s more. Stitch your way on over to your SDD.
11:19 pm on October 2nd, 2014
Staff!…You are really annoying me right not…grump!…Who is the first WINNER…wheeze!
11:22 pm on October 2nd, 2014
The first prize winner has to let me know it is OK for me to post their name or nickname on the blog. I am trying to be polite. Heh heh heh. So hold on to your little pug tail and wait like the polite little pug that I know you are not.
teeHEE!
11:25 pm on October 2nd, 2014
WE received a third booty donation in the email tonight. It was also matched. Well almost all. I had to find an emergency match for the last 5.00 of the donation. But all is right with the world and the booty fund is now up to 310.00 but (sob) we are out of matching funds.
We are all out of matching funds, but you never know when someone will decide to become a matcher. All they have to do is let me know, and the amount, and I will take care of letting them know when (not if) their funds are matched and they must send the money in to Snowhook.
11:29 pm on October 2nd, 2014
One thing that happens when you are a matcher is it gives you several chances at the prizes.
When someone donates an amount that is tallied on the running total. Then the matchers amount is tallied right after. Whoever’s total hits the magic number wins the prize. It might be the original donor or it might be the person who made the match! This time is wasn’t the matcher…but he/she/it had multiple chances at the prize.
Hint Hint Hint.
11:34 pm on October 2nd, 2014
Ok I got all distracted trying to placate a pug. Where was I….
Oh yeah, A fourth donation came in and it , grump, was not matched. However our booty fund is now at
So now the booty fund it at 335.00! Whooo Hooo.
Thank you most wonderful and generous plunderers.
Now I must go see what Golinka wants….
11:35 pm on October 2nd, 2014
Oh drat, I forgot the running booty dog part of the post….so much to remember so late at night!
11:37 pm on October 2nd, 2014
And the wonderful winner of the beautiful earrings is….
(I never win anything) said Barb and Maggie.
I hope that Pug is happy now.
11:43 pm on October 2nd, 2014
Staff!…tisk!tisk!…You must get organized…heh!heh!…But over-all you are doing a fine damn job of juggling booty funds…snort!…I like the way you are handling the prizes…chuffle!…You have a long road ahead of you on this Booty Trail, but I for one think you are up to the task…chuffle!
Prizes!…This reminds me, does anyone else have any fund raising goal prizes they would like to donate?…snort!…I think I love this idea very much…heh!
11:44 pm on October 2nd, 2014
We are so excited! I LOVE the earrings and it is almost that time of year at our place. I will wear them any time we have snow – which will be all winter. I even have a sweater and a jacket with the same snowflake design. Thank you Snowhook, Amalia and Nancy. And what a great cause, to boot, or booty!
11:45 pm on October 2nd, 2014
And on an entirely different topic. A independent film about my (and Dawson’s) brother Chris is having its premiere in Chicago on the 14th of November..
details…Event Location: Logan Theatre 2646 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago
● When: November 14, 2014 Friday 6:30 doors open — 7:30 p.m. film starts
More info:http://www.chicagotalks.org/2014/09/film-premiere-recalls-street-artist-who-fought-illinois-eavesdropping-law/
11:46 pm on October 2nd, 2014
Congrats to Barb! It is exciting to see the early interest in the upcoming Snowhook racing season. My house is undergoing work next week (resealing the crawlspace and attic) and once I get that bill paid, I will be be joining in. One of the nice things about winter coming is gearing up for following Snowhook on the trail.
Oodles of noodles…
11:46 pm on October 2nd, 2014
Maggie!…Congrats on the winning prize. Those earrings will look very nice on you…heh!heh!…Maybe you can lend them out to Fern for her big-chicken-night-out at Bingo…chuffle!…Fern. I love that name…heh!
11:49 pm on October 2nd, 2014
Staff!…Wow! Youse guys, meaning TurtleMan is going to be famous!….yiiip-eeee-oooo-kiiii-aaaa!…WOOOO!
11:53 pm on October 2nd, 2014
FOUR MORE prizes! Rio! Just mention it and it happens. I think maybe Amalia was on the trail of more prizes anyway. So I must go and do my magic number choosing FOUR MORE times.
I will never get a chance to catch up with today’s blog at this pace!
BBIAM (in a minute)
11:54 pm on October 2nd, 2014
Staff!…My apologies…sniff!…I was thinking your Turtleman Brother was the films main subject as you had mentioned he was involved in a production…wheeze!…This is your late brother Chris. When this becomes available we here will be watching it…sniffle!
12:06 am on October 3rd, 2014
And Staff!…You are doing an AMAZING job of fund raising for the Shake Yer Booty campaign…wuffle!..I am so proud to call you my friend right now…sniff!…And special thanks and hugs and slurpy pug-kisses to Golinka and any others that have donated fund-raising prizes…sob!sob!…All youse guys are making my pug-heart burst with joy and my flat-head throb with new ideas..wheeze!wuffle!burp!
12:42 am on October 3rd, 2014
Thank you Rio. I am glad to have your support and admiration. Alice wants to know what she would have to do to get some support…snicker.
I have magiced 4 more numbers for prize winners. We are now about ??? away from the next prize. I think the next prize will be this one. It is a butterfly pin. Wow is it beautiful. I wonder who will win it???
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Remember donations are now being taken for matching funds. They are the best way to go to get a prize.
And that is all for tonight. I am sleepy and must rest up because we have to put up our quilt show tomorrow. It is not a large show. A little more than 100 quilts. At least I think that is all. Maybe more have come in as I wrestled with the Booty fund. I won’t know until tomorrow afternoon.
Nighty booties y’all
12:59 am on October 3rd, 2014
Staff: Thank you for posting the link about Your Brother Chris. We read the article, watched the preview, and are amazed at all he accomplished in his life.
As a matter of fact…you, Dawson, A.Catty, and the Turtleman too are all part of An Amazing Family.
3:51 am on October 3rd, 2014
Well, here I am, awake once again. New sleep medication, while weaning me off of another one of the many pills I take. Plus I have a stomach ache.
Last night’s local news reported that a man who works in the meat department of the A&P (where I worked for 2 weeks), was arrested for stealing meat. He stuffed filet mignon (sp?), prime rib, and other very expensive cuts of meat in his pants. He was arrested, ad needless to say, he is no longer working at the A&P either.
Staff and Awesome, since my head has shrunk to a pointy pencil point, and I can no longer think clearly, would you SDD me regarding the booty fund and the checkpoints. I will do what I can.
I hope that Rio is sleeping well in his nice soft bed, with all his baseball toys in the right places.
4:01 am on October 3rd, 2014
in the strange, but true file:
http://abcnews.go.com/Weird/wireStory/police-worker-hid-1200-worth-meat-pants-25895418
6:06 am on October 3rd, 2014
SiberH – Thank you for contributing to Cherokee’s checkpoint!!!
Smiley Happy Friday !!