Sunday Open Thread: April 29 is the Feast of Saint Catherine of Siena

Today's date is also Prickle-Prickle, Discord 46, 3184 YOLD
(for you Discordians out there)

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World History this day

1429 – Joan of Arc showed up to raise the siege of Orleans
1910 – The UK Parliament passed the People's Budget with the stated intent of redistributing wealth
1916 – Irish rebel leaders surrendered to British forces, ending the Easter Rising
1945 – The German army in Italy surrendered to the Allies.
1945 – Dachau was liberated by US troops

US History this day

1861 – Maryland's House of Delegates voted not to secede
1967 – Muhammad Ali was stripped of his title after refusing to join the war machine
1970 – The US invaded Cambodia, allegedly to hunt VC
1974 – Nixon announced the release of edited transcripts of the White House tapes
1975 – The U.S. began to evacuate U.S. citizens from Saigon
1992 – Riots broke out in Los Angeles over the acquittal of the cops who brutalized Rodney King.

Science & Technology this day

1986 – Assorted spy satellites imaged the ruins of the 4th Reactor at Chernobyl

The Arts this day

1968 – The musical Hair, which tried to co-opt hippie culture, opened

Misc. this day

2011 – Prince William married Catherine Middleton, momentarily upstaging the Kardashians.

Birthdays of Note this day

1667 – John Arbuthnot, satirist, physician, and polymath
1810 – Thomas Adolphus Trollope, journalist and author
1847 – Joachim Andersen, flautist, composer, and conductor
1854 – Henri Poincare, mathematician, physicist, and engineer
1863 – William Randolph Hearst, yellow journalist
1894 – Marietta Blau, physicist, nobel nominee
1893 – Harold Urey, chemist
1895 – Malcolm Sargent, organist, composer, and conductor
1899 – Duke Ellington, pianist, composer, and bandleader
1900 – Concha de Albornoz, feminist and exile
1922 – Toots Thielemans, guitarist and harmonica player
1928 – Carl Gardner, singer, Robin, Coaster
1931 – Lonnie Donegan, singer, songwriter, and guitarist; the king of skiffle
1933 – Rod McKuen, singer, songwriter and poet
1933 – Willie Nelson, singer, songwriter, guitarist, pot-head
1935 – Otis Rush, singer, songwriter and guitarist
1936 – Zubin Mehta, bassist and conductor
1936 – April Stevens, pop singer
1938 – Bernard Madoff, classic capitalist businessman and financier
1938 – Klaus Voormann, artist, bass player, and producer, major sideman
1943 – Duane Allen, country singer
1945 – Tammi Terrell, singer and songwriter
1947 – Tommy James, singer, songwriter, and guitarist

Deaths of Note this day

1380 – Catherine of Siena, a saint who married Jesus, the son of god, and received his foreskin for a ring *
1905 – Ignacio Cervantes, pianist and composer
1951 – Ludwig Wittgenstein, philosopher
1967 – J. B. Lenoir, singer, songwriter and guitarist
1980 – Alfred Hitchcock, director, producer and bird fancier
1993 – Mick Ronson, guitarist, songwriter, and producer
1997 – Mike Royko, journalist and author
2006 – John Kenneth Galbraith, economist
2008 – Albert Hofmann, chemist
2012 – Kenny Roberts, country singer and songwriter

* Luckily, it was invisible, sparing the sensitivities of her neighbors and acquaintances

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So now some music


The Duke

Toots

Carl Gardner

Lonnie Donegan

Rod McKuen

Willie

Otis Rush

April Stevens

Klaus Voormann

Tammi Terrell

Tommy James

Ignacio Cervantes

J. B. Lenoir

Albert Hofmann

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riverlover's picture

As usual, my blooming daffodils will have flowers smashed to the ground. It is supposed to be 80 by Wed when I get to spend that day in an OR. Adult disappointment. But ulcers and colon will be surveyed.

I will be having a phone conversation with a potential housemate today. My house is currently too filthy to show off, with every day bringing a new disability. I am literally falling apart. I got my CBD oil, 500mg/ml. It helps with pain. I am also a dealer (LOL)if anyone wants some. It is also made for pets.

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Hey! my dear friends or soon-to-be's, JtC could use the donations to keep this site functioning for those of us who can still see the life preserver or flotsam in the water.

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@riverlover
I used to take photos in my dkos times and put them up to flickr, which had easy and nice editing functions back then. I tried to do the same with some photos for you, riverlover, and everything has changed. Nothing works as it used to do. I am supposed to learn everything from scratch again?

Jeez, it breaks my spirit. Sorry, for not being able to upload the images I took, they are too large, I can't find an easy program to just adjust sharpness, contrast etc. I have never learned to use photoshop and look for something more basic.

I have forgotten everything.

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@mimi

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In my garden in Germany looking westward for riverlover. Smile

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@mimi

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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --

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@mimi
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Look at the size of the chairs beneath and the height of the house. When I left Germany they were may be 4 meters high. We are all getting old...

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@mimi
space.

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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --

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@enhydra lutris
the garden etc.

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@mimi
for you.
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This one was one and a half meters high, when I grew up. Now it's may be twentyfive yards wide.
Old glory, here I am.

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@mimi
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Smile

PS, if you wonder of the banality of my photographic lacking skills, I hadn't take a photo since 2015, had no camera and didn't touch the new one for months. One day i will be there.

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@mimi but you have to read how. It's free.

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@enhydra lutris
thanks.

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@riverlover
search. Hope you get spring soon.

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I'm glad to read you are getting a housemate RL. I figured you could arrange to trade rent for a little help in a university town. Good luck with your plantings too.

All is well here on the mountain. It's a lovely day. We had over 4 inches of rain this week so I'm staying out of the garden today. I re-graded my road yesterday. It was just wet enough to move nicely and hopefully will repack in place. It is time for more gravel in spots. The long and winding road is a pain to maintain...but after 30+ years it is just another chore. I weathered the entire winter without having to do road work this year, but last weeks rain changed to situation.

Hope you all have a good day. Full "pink" moon tonight
https://www.inquisitr.com/4881080/pink-moon-2018-aprils-full-moon-rises-...

Venus and Jupiter will also be visible to the naked eye on Sunday. Jupiter will rise shortly before the April full moon, at 8:31 p.m. EDT, while Venus will be high on the sky as early as 7:19 a.m. EDT,

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“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

@Lookout Meaning closest to the earth in it's elliptical. Outshines Sirius, the brightest star in the sky. Rising in the east as the sun is setting.

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@QMS
Jupiter being at opposition. Hopefully our overcast will break by evening.

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@Lookout makes life easier.I have to get into the garden today myself, because one bed's plants are massively infested with aphids. It's kale so I'm going to try cutting the stem below all of the leafy matter, tossing the leaves and aphids and hoping that the stems regrow. Meantime I have to figure out something to plant between the 2 rows to be a replacement crop if that fails, or an intercrop if it succeeds.

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@enhydra lutris

Here's some info...
https://www.thespruce.com/homemade-sprays-for-fighting-aphids-2539831

Ladybugs are sometimes used, but commercial bugs have issues
https://www.treehugger.com/lawn-garden/why-you-shouldnt-buy-ladybugs-nat...

Happy gardening!

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“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

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@Lookout
soap and use a lemon/tabasco spray where I see them on the soil. All of the large plants went into the trash except for the bottom of the stems which I hope will regrow. I have 2 tiny regrows that have very few, and they too will get the lemon spray. Then no planting for a week or two and see what happens.

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Morning EL and all

This is a more hopeful song from that time:

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I want a Pony!

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@Arrow
crimson and clover because of this little bit of cleverness:

The song contains a tremolo effect on the guitar, set so that it vibrated in time with the song's rhythm. Near the end of the recording, the band had an idea of utilizing the tremolo effect with vocals. To achieve this, the voice microphone was plugged into an Ampeg guitar amplifier with tremolo turned on, and the output from the amplifier was recorded while James sang "Crimson and clover, over and over".
-- Wikipedia

How's the recovery doing?

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@Arrow

I just happened to swerve into this - and frankly found it somewhat hard to believe:

Tommy James Highest-Paid Singer in the World

Still not sure I believe it, but there it is...

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@travelerxxx
income from all sources, including investments, but it is still surprising.

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