Cottage by the Sea

Hey Friends! As I write this on Friday afternoon, the rain has stopped and it is cool, breezy, sunny and gorgeous outside. This is perfect weather today.

Saturday 9: Venus in Blue Jeans (1962)

  Unfamiliar with this week's tune? Hear it here.

1) Like the dream girl described in this song, Sam is wearing jeans as she composes this Saturday 9. Is there a lot of denim in your wardrobe?
There is a fair amount for sure.

2) Jimmy Clanton likens this girl to the Venus de Milo, the ancient Greek sculpture made of marble and now on display at the Louvre. Is there any marble in your home?

Yes. Marble in the bathroom and in the kitchen.

Venus in blue jeans.

3) He refers to his girl as "Mona Lisa with a pony tail." The Mona Lisa is also at the Louvre. What's the last museum you visited?    
 The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City... or maybe it was The Franklin Institute for the Tutankamun display. Not sure which. The drive to both is not far from here.

4) This girl is so awesome, she's the 8th Wonder of the World! Without looking it up, could you name the other 7?
I can name most of the old wonders but I don't think I know the new ones.
So off the top of my head:
Zeus statue in Greece, Colossus at Rhodes , Hanging Gardens of Babylon, Pyramids at Giza, Temple of Artemis, Alexandria Lighthouse .
    I had the first 5 very quickly, but wasn't sure if the temple was one..though I thought it was and turns out it is.   I had a book about them when I was a little girl. We have no idea what the hanging gardens looked like, just descriptions.  Worth memorizing again I think.

5) Jimmy Clanton spent his entire professional life behind a microphone. After he quit selling records, he began spinning them as a DJ. Do you consider the sound of your voice one of your better qualities?
For singing? It used to be, yes.   I don't get any complaints.

6) At age 80, Mr. Clanton still performs. He averaged an appearance/month in 2018. Some of his fans were surprised that he has let his pompadour go completely white. Do you color your hair?

No. I did but don't anymore.

This is a  borrowed picture from the net that looks exactly like my Buttons.

7) In 1962, when this song was popular, Americans were reading about 5-year-old First Daughter, Caroline Kennedy, and her pony, Macaroni. Tell us about a pet you had when you were very young.

I had a dog named Buttons that I brought home  from a friends house when I was in kindergarten. She was a very dear dog and
passed on in my senior year in high school.  We didn't give our animals shots every five minutes and they didn't get all the ugly diseases they get now and lived longer too.  

8) Decades later, Caroline Kennedy was the first woman to serve as US Ambassador to Japan. Have you ever been to Asia?
No.  And I have never been an ambassador either! Imagine that!

9) Random question: When talking among themselves, who do you think is more open and honest about sex -- men or women?
 Women.  Men are inhibited in many ways and unable to talk.