Sunday Night In Uncle Walt's Vault: Disneyland After Dark

 

 

 

 

 

 A delightful slice of Disneyland nostalgia... and the America that used to be.

 

Disneyland After Dark
(1962)
Uploaded by Mountaineer Productions
(March 19, 2019)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Praise Awaits You, O God, In Zion

 

 

Praise awaits You, O God, in Zion;

to You our vows will be fulfilled.

You who listen to prayer,

all the people will come to You. 

 

 Israeli Fall Produce Roundup
Image courtesy/Delicious Israel

 

 

When iniquities prevail against me,

You atone for our transgressions.

Blessed is the one You choose

and bring near to dwell in Your courts!

We are filled with the goodness of Your house,

the holiness of Your temple. 

With awesome deeds of righteousness You answer us,

O God of our salvation,

the hope of all the ends of the earth

and the farthest seas. 

You formed the mountains by Your power,

having girded Yourself with might.

You stilled the roaring of the seas,

and the pounding of the waves,

and the tumult of the nations. 

Those who love far away fear Your wonders;

You make the dawn and sunset shout for joy.

You attend the earth and water it;

with abundance You enrich it.

The streams of God are full of water,

for You prepare  our grain

by providing the for the earth. 

You soak its furrows and level its ridges;

You soften it with showers and bless its growth.

You crown the year with Your bounty,

and Your paths overflow with plenty. 

The pastures of the wilderness overflow;

the hills are robed with joy.

The pastures are clothed with flocks

and the valleys are decked with grain.

They shout in triumph;

indeed, they sing.

Psalm 65

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cowboy Kent Rollins Makes Easy Upside Down Pizza

 

 

 

 America's most famous cowboy cook shares his recipe for
an easy-to-make one pot dinner-Upside Down Pizza!

 

Our Most Requested Dish Of All Time
Easy Upside Down Pizza
Cowboy Kent Rollins
(October 22, 2025)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Saturday Poetry Corner: To Autumn

 

 

 

 

"You crown the year with Your bounty, and Your paths overflow with plenty."
(Psalm 65:11)

 

Autumn In The English Countryside
Image courtesy/Pinterest

   

Season of mist and mellow fruitfulness,

Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;

Conspiring with him how to load and bless

With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run; 

To bend with apples the moss'd the cottage-trees,

And with all fruit with ripeness to the core;

To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells

With a sweet kernel; to set budding more, 

And still more, later flowers for the bees,

Until they think warm days will never cease,

For Summer has o'er-brimm'd their clammy cells. 

 

Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?

Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find

Thee sitting careless on a granary floor,

Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind;

Or on a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep,

Drows'd with the fume of poppies, while thy hook

Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers;

And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep

Steady thy laden head across a brook;

Or by a cider-press, with patient look, 

Thou watchest the last oozings hours by hours. 

 

Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they?

Think not of them, thou hast thy music too-

While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day,

And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue; 

Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn

Among the river sallows borne aloft

Or sinking as the light wind lives and dies; 

And full-grown lambs bleat from hilly bourn;

Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft

The red-breast whistles from a garden-croft;

And gathering swallows twitter in the skies. 

 

"To Autumn"
(1819)
John Keats
(1795-1821)
English Romantic poet 

About President Trump's Ballroom

 

 

 

 

  The Democrats are hoopin' and hollerin'-while keeping the government shut down-
 but they are mainly angry because they won't be able to cook up some scheme to
 bill the American tax payers for Donald Trump's spectacular ballroom 
 currently being added to the White House. 

 

Image courtesy/People.com

  Furthermore, as the proposal of this new addition to the White House was
  announced this past summer, the profuse surprise and outrage expressed 
by the opposition is more than likely just a ruse. The dirty Dems and other
  critics of the president have probably known about it for months.  

To be perfectly fair, if former presidents have made renovations to the White House 
over the years why can't our current Commander-In-Chief be allowed to do the same?

I would much rather see an elegant ballroom added to this grand and historic building
 than solar panels in the roof-an idea hatched during the Carter Administration-
which were promptly removed shortly after Ronald Reagan took office in 1981. Or,
an even worst affront, both to God and many citizens across this nation, including
those in 35 states, who had already voted against it, and whose will was simply
ignored-the People's House lit up in the colors of the rainbow after the
Supreme Court's politically tainted decision to recognize same-sex marriage
in 2015, compliments of President Barack Obama.

"For our struggle is not against flesh and blood only, but against the
rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this world's darkness,
and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms." 
(Ephesians 6:12)

Although President Trump has made some rash decisions lately that seem
disturbing to me, this one has my approval.  I  also realize our president is in
great need of intercessory prayers,  for both his and his family's protection 
from forces of both human and spiritual wickedness plaguing our land.

But even more so, I pray that he will seek the will of God's first in his life, 
through the daily reading and studying of the Scriptures, in order to prepare
 his mind and his heart when faced with making crucial decisions in these
   increasingly dark and dangerous times for our nation and the world.

 

 

 

 

 

  

Flashback Friday: American Pie

 

 

 

 

 

 Released in October, 1971 "American Pie"  written by American singer-songwriter
Don McLean, has long been considered a tribute to the great rock 'n' roll legend 
Buddy Holly, with the memorable refrain, "the day the music died".  

Holly was killed in a plane crash in February 1959, along with up and coming
 rock and roll singers Ritchie Valens, and "The Big Bopper" J.D. Richardson.

McLean said that he drew the inspiration for this song from his childhood
 when he was delivering newspapers at the time of the crash. 

"I first found out about the crash because I was a 13-year old newspaper
delivery boy in New Rochelle, New York and I was carrying the bundle
of local Standard-Star papers that were bound in twine, and when I cut
it open with a knife, there it was on the front page," he remembered. 

 Don McLean's song further reflects the social and political changes he
witnessed in America, from the conservative years of early rock and roll
in the late 1950's, to the more progressive era of psychedelic acid rock
 in the late 1960's and early 1970's, a time when the counter-culture was in
full swing, along with a very unpopular war being waged in Southeast Asia.

Upon the release of "American Pie" Cash Box called the song, "folk-rock's
most ambitious and successful epic endeavor since "Alice's Restaurant".
Record World called it a "monumental accomplishment of lyric writing." 

The song was a Number One hit for four weeks beginning in January, 1972
after just eight weeks on the US Billboard charts.  "American Pie" also
topped the charts in Australia, New Zealand, and Canada and was
the Number Two most popular song in the United Kingdom
where it stayed for three weeks after its initial release.

American Pie
(1971)
Don McLean

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Walk The Same Route David Took Right Before Goliath

 

  

"But David said to the Philistine, "You come against me with sword and spear 
 and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the LORD of Hosts,
 the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. "
(1 Samuel 17:45)

David Hoists The Severed Head Of Goliath
(1866)
Gustave Dore
(1832-1883)
French artist and illustrator
 

 

 What does the battlefield of David and Goliath look like 3,000 years later?
Can a quiet valley still echo with one of the Bible's most dramatic moments?

 

Walk The Same Route David Took
 Right Before Goliath
Lev Haolam
(October 23, 2025)