ROCK 'N ROLL, BABY!

First of all, let me start with an update from a previous post:

Yes, I did finally dye my hair

and

Yea, I'm back on sugar too.  I have no willpower.  And speaking of willpower...  Gary Puckett comes to mind.  "Lady Willpower, it's now or never... la-la-la-la"

AND NOW>  Let me take you back to a time when Tiger Beat Magazine was the reason that I lived.  I had just reached a milestone in my life.  I was thirteen.   A teenager, finally.   A teenager with one thing to look forward to, and that was to see who was the centerfold of Tiger Beat for the month.  My walls and ceiling were covered with posters of Mark Lindsay,  Mickey Dolenz, Paul McCartney, Sajid Khan, Davy Jones, Bobby Sherman and more.  

Every night when I talked to God I pleaded, "Please God, let me marry Mark Lindsay someday"  Then I would kiss the glossy poster above my bed goodnight.   I could tell Mark loved me too....  The smile never left his face.  

My mom knew how much I loved him.  She would make sure I got all the latest records and magazines that had anything to do with him.  She even wrote him a letter once asking for an autograph for me and HE NEVER WROTE BACK!    I guess the feelings were not mutual after all...   
So I had to give up on him and marry another. 

 I did name my daughter after him...  LINDSEY...  
  Even though I was sooooo over him and his silly, white, skin tight leotards.

But then I got older and I started thinking about the good old days and I did an online search to see what he was up to.  That's when I ran into The Happy Together Tour and saw that he would be performing with several other Oldies but Goodies.  Gary Puckett, Three Dog Night, The Turtles, Gary Lewis.

I found a venue just 5 hours away, ordered some really great tickets, and the rest...

Is history!

We were just 3 rows back.  Excellent seats! 

Happy at the Happy Together Concert.  All us golden oldies going to see the Golden Oldies!

Gary's ready to rock 'n roll

Gary Lewis

Mark Lindsay

Busy, Break, and Bushkill

Summer so far has been busy, busy, busy.  That's why a break in the beautiful chaos is needed.  

And while I'm away, I am going to try to catch up on all of your blogs...   

I hope everyone is enjoying their summer....

I know I am

Dear Diary,
First it was new furniture.  I kid you not.  The nag took away my good smelling well broken in green couch and blue recliner and replaced it with some of the most awful smelling brown furniture and ...  well...  that's not all!!!  No, that's not all!!!!  My bed!  The very bed that I slept so well on has been removed only to add a huge, gigantic, large, big, ginormous bed and now I have to search high and low to find Dad so I can curl up by his side.  This is not good.  No.  Not good at all.  There's talk of more new stuff on the way.  How much can a dog take!!!!   And that's not all!!!  Now I'm hearing the Nag talk about the V word.  Yep.  It seems that she is going to take MY DAD and go to the pocono's (wherever that is) and see her teenage heartthrob Mark Lindsay in concert(whoever that is) and go to Bushkill Falls (wherever that is) and have fun.  Without me.  How can she do this to me!  And leave me here all alone.  Well.  With Lindsey.  And Rissi.  And Summer.  So I guess ...  on second thought it won't be all that bad after all.  Cookies comes to mind.  Lots of them.  Later....  Gracie.

Birdy Friends

We usually have a hummingbird feeder right outside of 

our big bedroom window.  

But this year, no hummingbirds showed up.

So Gary took it down and replaced it with this...

And now, we have guests....

 COME TO GARY'S DINER WHERE THE FOOD IS FREE

AND THE PAPARAZZI 

WON'T LEAVE YOU ALONE