Buck Owens and Roy Clark and the whole Hee Haw Gang welcome guests
Glen Campbell, Mel Tillis, Bill Monroe, Zeke Shepherd, Steve Wariner.
Also, a special appearance by "health inspector" Merlin P. Tall
a.k.a. comedian Jonathan Winters.
Great country music and entertainment at it's best!
"The pleasure given by a flower
To mortal eyes through Nature's power
Is so bestowed on me that there
I fancy my sweet love to be
Standing himself in front of me
Whose person hath so kindled me."
Neifile's poem-The Decameron*
There is May in books forever;
May will part from Spenser never;
May's in Milton, May's in Prior,
May's in Chaucer, Thomson, Dyer;
May's in all the Italian books:-
She has old and modern nooks,
Where she sleeps with nymphs and elves,
In happy places they call shelves,
And will rise and dress your rooms
With a drapery thick with blooms.
Come, ye rains, then if ye will,
May's at home and with me still;
But come rather, thou, good weather,
And find us in the fields together.
"May And The Poets"
James Henry Leigh Hunt
(1784-1859)
19th century English poet
&essayist
* Neifile's poem is taken from "The Decameron" a collection
of short stories by Italian writer Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375).
It is a story about a group of young people, seven women and three men, taking refuge
inside a secluded villa just outside of Florence, Italy in order to escape the Black Death,
also known as the Bubonic Plague, which was sweeping through the city and across
the European continent at the time. Written as a "story within a story" the characters
spin imaginary tales in order to pass the time of their quarantine.
Boccaccio's "The Decameron" not only documents one of the most fatal pandemics
in human history, but is considered a masterpiece of early Italian prose.
"A sparkling tune with its melodic hook" was how Record World described England Dan and
John Ford Coley's pop love song, "I'd Really Love To See You Tonight" released 50 years
ago this month in May, 1976. From their album, "Nights Are Forever" the song peaked
at Number #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for two weeks and at Number #1
on the Easy Listening Chart. Billboard ranked it as the 21st most popular
song for the Bicentennial year in America.
"I will return to you in stone."
-Crazy Horse, 1877
Today's Wild West host Mark Bedor presents the story of the Indian Mount Rushmore!
Money is tight for everyone these days and especially for those of us who love
growing our own vegetables! In this latest video, the gracious host of Terrace Garden
shares an innovative approach to growing self-watering cucumbers in old tires!
"I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase."
(1 Corinthians 3:6)
The Man of the Place was worried about the weather.
He said the indications were for a dry season, and ever since I have been
remembering droughts. There were dry years in the Dakotas when we were
beginning our life together. How heartbreaking it was to watch the grain
we had sown with such high hopes wither and turn yellow in the hot winds!
And it was backbreaking as well as heartbreaking to carry water
from the well to my garden and see it dry up despite all my efforts.
I said at that time that thereafter I would sow the seed, but, the
Lord would give the increase if there was any, for I could not do
my work and that of Providence also by sending the rain on
the gardens of the just or the unjust.
"Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not,
neither do they spin: and yet I say unto you, That Solomon in
all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if
God so clothe the grass of the field, which today is, and
tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall He not much more
clothe you, O ye of little faith?"
(Matthew 6:28-30)
But I still suppose our brains were given us to use by the same Providence
that created the laws of nature, and what we accomplish by the use of them is,
in a certain sense, its work. Just as all good is for us if we but reach out our
hand to take it, so in the higher atmosphere around our earth there is a
great supply of moisture. It is there for our use if, with the brains which
God has given us, we can find a way to tap it.
This is what a California man claims to have done (in 1924.)
(Charles) Hatfield, the rainmaker, lives in Glendale, California near Los Angeles.
He claims to be able to make rain by projecting into the atmosphere, from
a high scaffolding, certain chemicals that attract and precipitate moisture.
There are always storms in movement, and storm formations pass
high over a country without ever condensing and causing rain. The way
he operates, he'll make that storm give up its water as it comes along.
In 1915, there was a very severe drought in southern California, especially in
San Diego County where the water situation became critical. As a last resort,
the San Diego Chamber of Commerce decided to try out this man Hatfield.
A contract was made by which he was to receive $10,000 if he brought
down water enough to fill the great irrigation reserve.
Shortly after he began operations, the rain began to fall in such quantities that
the reservoir not only filled but burst its dam and the Chamber of Commerce,
instead of paying him $10,000, brought suit against him
for damages in destroying the dam.
"Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take
thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof."
(Matthew 6:34)
Just in time for your Mother's Day brunch or for anytime!
MeMe makes a delicious Strawberry Salad!
And everybody remember, Shine for Jesus!
