We are starting our second, and unexpected, week of caring for our grandson. A snow storm and terrible road conditions have made our planned rendezvous with Son and Dil impossible today, and it looks like the weather is going to be awful all week. We may not get him back to his parents until Saturday.
Yesterday Husband, Grandson, and dog had a wonderful time playing in the snow drifts, feeding the birds, and tearing around in the backyard. The dog came in the house with a mass of golf ball-sized snow clumps sticking to his beard, skirt, armpits, furnishings, and legs. I had to put him in a warm bath to melt them. He had a great time out there, though. Grandson loved watching the birds flock at the feeder.
Husband is exhausted from clearing snow. He says that North Dakota words to live by are “Don’t run out of whiskey in a blizzard”. His small stash of hooch is holding up just fine, but we really need spring to come.
What are your words to live by? Any opinions about whiskey?
Trail Baboon 
“Some do, and some don’t.” This works for babies, animals, committees and weather predictions.
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In that same vein, “You win some, you lose some,” is applicable to so many things and situations.
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“It could be worse.”
Not a big fan of whisky but enjoy J.L. Hooker
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I like that version better than George Thorogood’s.
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Same here. Chess records production.
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Unintentional jumping to movie quotes again, but just last night Kelly and I were laughing about this quote from ‘We Bought a Zoo’. One of the zoo employee’s says it to a lion as he works in the lions cage: “You don’t want me. I am filled with Scotch and bitterness and impure thoughts. “
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Everything changes. All of the time. (Except when it doesn’t.)
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I’ve never liked whiskey. I used to like scotch, but no longer.
I like brandy, cognac, just for sipping, and I like sherry. (But learned you must drink it slower than wine, more alcohol content…)
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I do, however, like songs about some of these drinks:
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I hope you also use a smaller glass for sipping sherry. If you drink it like you do red or white wine, you’re going to be more than a little tipsy.
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Yes to that!
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A nice single malt Scotch – one that’s not too peaty – can be a real treat to sip. Off hand I can’t recall if I’ve tasted Irish whisky, but I know I’m not a fan of bourbon. Lots of good songs about the whiskey, though. Here’s one:
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Might be a good music day on the Trail…
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Better than George Jones.
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nothing is better than george jones
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Rise and Shine, Baboons,
Aside from Baileys, whiskey is not my thing. In Edinburgh, Scotland, on the main drag, there were quite a few Scotch whiskey shops offering free samples which sealed the dislike for me. But I loved a lot of other things about Edinburgh. As far as words to live by, “Rise and Shine” would be one. “Let it go” is another one.
Renee, the pictures of your grandson and dog are really cute. Playing in the snow at his age is really a blast. I had a professional gathering to attend last night. The snow started just as I left the house. Groan. When I returned home around 9:30pm I saw some cars in the ditch. Driving in it was not a blast.
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Renee, is that a vine off your deck? If so, what kind is it? The branches appear very thick.
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Those are grape vines, Beta variety. They grow up all the way to the top of the deck and shade the west side and top of the deck.
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The dog loves to tug on the vines.
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Renee, glad the visit is going so well! Got one question: furnishings?? “sticking to his beard, skirt, armpits, furnishings, and legs.”
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Furnishings are all the fancy trimmed hair on his sides and undersides
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I have not heard that description before.
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Actually, I need to correct myself. Furnishings are the eyebrows, beards, and other facial and head hair.
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LOL… I thought furnishings was a euphemism for something completely different!!
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I wondered about that too!
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This, too, will pass.
Or, as I just saw on FB: “But then it passed, as all things do.” Khaled Hosseini
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As Mr. Vonnegut would say, “So it goes”.
The snow isn’t deep but it’s very wet and heavy this morning.
I appreciate most forms of whiskey, including peaty Islay single malt scotch, in moderation, of course. But it’s still a little early for that.
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Nice!
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“You’ve buttered your bread and now you’ll have to lie in it.”
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How I wish I could think of some more screwed up “sayings” like this, but of course, my brain is completely blank. I love the mental image this one conjures up, not to mention the lack of sense it makes. Sounds like it might be taken from the MAGA crowd’s playbook.
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“Don’t kick a gift horse in the mouth when he’s down.”
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Here’s some interesting little tidbit about how WP works. The above statement by Bill showed up in my email a full minute before it showed here on the blog.
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“Early to bed and early to rise makes Jack a dull boy.”
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…and lonely.
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We could get 7 more inches of snow tonight and tomorrow. At this rate, Grandson will be here until Easter!
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And then Daughter will be home, too, right?
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The 24th -27th.
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Of March?
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Yes March
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My mom always says “God will take care of it.” When she gets to worrying these days and gets all anxious I remind her of that. Being hit with her own words, she has to pause, and take a breath, and admit, yes, she did say that. It calms her down.
She also used to say a lot “It will work out.” And I have seen things in my own life work out and I try not to stress over things so much because… it generally works out.
I keep trying scotch and whiskey and bourbon thinking I should like one of them. Some are OK. Some I tolerate simply for the sake of tolerating “because”. We do like Wild Turkey Honey Whiskey and keep a bottle of that in the fridge. Just a little swig will do ya! Last time we ran out, I bought a bottle of a MN honey whiskey… it ain’t working for me. But I won’t throw it out.
This song doesn’t specify what’s in the keg:
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I really miss my ability to “like” something.
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Me too.
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Mine works so all the music gets a ghost like from you.
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I’m sure I’ve had whiskey at least once in my 66 years but I can’t remember an occasion in specific. I’m not crazy about most of the hard liquors at all.
I probably say “oh well” more than anything else and that does kind of represent my feelings on the vicissitudes of life. But I also say, “there is no try, only do” which seems to fly in the face of “oh well”. I guess I’m just a complex person.
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“There is no try, only do” also works for the weekend’s question, if I’m not mistaken.
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66 years. You really must drive Route 66 in celebration.
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Well, this is about wine, not whiskey, but as long as we’re doing drinking songs:
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Well, nobody said the songs all needed to be whiskey related. This one is more related to words to live by, i.e. “You have to make hay when the sun shines”:
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Yeah, I kept waiting for the whiskey part (after finishing the hay) but with all those blisters on their hands, I realize it was about the wise words, and not the drinking. 😉
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Snort.
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Today, Grandson and I made German Cherry Streusel Cake with homemade sour cherry filling. It is too cold to play in the snow today.
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I enjoy the roots of American music.
Thanks for the opportunity to continue that exploration.
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Test.
Lyric
Movie
Little streams of whisky
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There’s a Burl Ives song… “the little streams of whiskey come tricklin’ down the rocks – Big Rock Candy Mountain?
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Good
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Burl Ives may have sung it but it wasn’t his song.
Harry McClintock recorded it in 1928. McClintock wrote and recorded several “hobo” songs including Halleluia I’m a Bum. Big Rock Candy Mountain has often been presented as a children’s song with bowdlerized lyrics because of the candy reference, I suppose, but that was not its original intent.
Harry McClintock claimed to have written BRCM but other sources say circa 1906 Marshall P. Locke and Charles Tyner were the songwriters.
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Always loved Steve Goodman’s version of this….
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Your grandson looks like he’s tall for his age, Renee. Is he?
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Yes, he is. His dad is 6′ 5″.
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whoops have to wait til the youtube ad is over https://youtu.be/Y-b9caDr3wQ
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here’s one that covers both questions with one answer https://youtu.be/uOfutUPy6Tk
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youtube.com/watch?v=EwLVnQ6oJW0
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Well that didn’t work. . Here it is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwLVnQ6oJW0
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i’m gonna plug that one in
i love that
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