Its Twist Day...shake those bellies!
Chubby Checker was born Ernest Evans in 1941, His career began in 1958 while working in a chicken farm. His boss introduced him to Kal Mann a song writer...He was given the name Chubby Checker by Dick Clarks wife. He gained national fame in 1960 with the tune The twist. This was unusual because it was the first dance that partners danced with each other ...but alone....
Rusty,,,,can ya get the twist wavs or even the peperment twist...if there are still people out there that remember such songs!

Good Morning and Happy Twist Day! We grew up on oldies! My dad's favourite music genre are oldies, so the twist brings back great memories!
Eileen

Have a great day everyone! Time for work , but after today I have a week off ! I would love to spend the week in Bonaire Eileen

Good Morning Meryl, Good Morning Eileen, Good Morning Everyone

Looks like another great day rising in Bonaire

I could do with shaking my belly, but don't want to. Ate too much Ben & Jerry's last night, and feel a bit delicate this morning.
And my tooth is very sore after all that treatment yesterday

Anyway, Happy Twist Day


And yes, Meryl, I remember the songs.

Hey, Kids! Let's Dance!!

There are lots of Twists out there - many are Cajun or Polka! LOL Did the best I could to grab some songs that sounded like the stuff the older kids were dancing to...

Twist twist1.mid (24 k)

Let's Twist Again letstwistagain.mid (23 k)

I notice they parked the truck a little further into the shrubbery. LOL



Parrotfish and a mating train of wrasses:

Morning all. Rusty, just did the Pooh test from yesterday and I'm the Pooh bear. 3 hours worth of meetings today so I'll be popping in and out sporadically. Have a great day everyone!

Hi Sir Glenn, *yuk* on the meetings. Pooh would never go to a meeting unless there was DONUTS!

Hmmm - they moved the truck back and it's EMPTY!?



Blikje - another exciting morning on Bonaire - a story in four parts:

Sit up:



Jump the gate:



Watch for Jake and Linda:



Back to wall - repeat:

It is also Raspberry Pie Day

Raspberries were one of the first European plants brought to America. They belong to the rose family and are usually red or purple - although you can also find gold and black. These sweet berries have tiny edible seeds and an intense flavor and aroma. This makes them perfect for flavors and syrups, but their most common use is in preserves and pies. They grow in the northern temporate zones.

Sure is quiet in here. Yoo hoo? Everyone finally getting some work done?



I'll be bailing out around 11 am for lunch with Dad. We're in a quandary - our fave Chinese place (Debbie Wong's) lost their lease after 15 years and closed the restaurant on Monday. A ?99 got the lease. (Banks prefer big chains to the little guys?) So until they BUY a building in town - don't want to lose their liquor license - it'll have to be American chow.

This truck thing quacks me up:

Okay, I can play for a few minutes. Looks like somone is taking their rubber ducky to the beach!

Quacks me up too, Rusty

Oh yes, it does!!!

Thanks for the wavs, Rusty, I am here dancing away

Hiya Sir Glenn, just off snorkeling and diving

Hi Jenni. Glad to hear you're doing something fun with the days off you've been granted. Sure beats spending the day in meetings like me. Wanna trade?

Oh Sire, as a lowly Dreamer Minstrel I do not have the PM savvy to be in meetings.

I bow to your superior knowledge and intellect.

Hey Maria,



Nice job on the Home Sweet Home! Do it at gifworks.com?

Long-range bombing run.

Sir Glenn - looks like a *bunker buster*. Look out below!



Well kids, don't twist yourself into a pretzel, okay? Off to nibble and visit! Oh, behave!

Have a nice time, Rusty.
Off to Pilates soon

Have fun at lunch Rusty. One of my meetings got cancelled-Oh happy day! Only two more to go...

Kinda hard to tell who this guy is, most likely Beldar the Conehead.

Speaking of meeting - Just got back from an early one. Think the rest of the day will be phone calls. Again - Too hot to want to go out!

The twist is not my favourite dance. Always got a sore back half-way through. Reduced to "twisting" my feet.

Yumm - yum rasberry pie. They are expensive up here. So I never get to eat as many rasberries as I love to.

Jenni -Give the tooth a week. Lots of jangled nerves!

Is there a "which Seseme Street Character are you?" test?


Rusty -Love what you can do withthat pickup truck! Endless possibilities, eh?


Cheers all,

Bill

Everyone smile and say "cheese!".

Hi everyone,

Hi Rusty, Just got back from food shopping more food to get tempted by. The Raspberry pie looks scrumptious,my favourite too. and the chinese, (I just cant get away from food)
Rusty I think it was gifwork.com. I was just testing, I had visions of it filling the page, as Im not up on computer lingo and sizes.
Great music. will have to try that next

Hi Guys

Back from Pilates - feel better, though the tooth is still tender and sore. Thanks for the encouragement, Bill. Much appreciated, and you are probably right.

Raspberry Pie. Did I miss something? I adore raspberries, but never seem to have enough for a pie. If I buy them I eat them, on my own, with ice cream.

Kevin has just arrived with a bottle of Cava - to celebrate exchanging contracts for the 5 x 1 bed flats we are buying. See you all tomorrow

Hi honey, I'm hoooome! Jenni - does that mean five-in-a-bed? You UK folks are swingers! (And Twisters)

Mr. Bill and Sir Glenn, you men in your meetings. I could never twubble my widdle bwain with meetings. (LOL) I just find widdle lost lambikins and tend my flock!

Re: The Twist - never tried it. I remember tho - living upstairs from a kid who thought he was the ultimate in cool. I was five and he was almost grownup - like eight. He'd turn on his record player really loud and then stand in the driveway dancing to one 45 rpm record over and over all day long. We called him Hanky-Panky Frankie! Doh.

I got a kick out of disco and tend to just jump around when we're rocking and rollin' but you can't beat a good slow drag!

Oh, Billbot? Haven't we done Sesame Street yet? LOL Who the H*** is Elmo anyway? I went back and changed FIVE answers and I'm still Elmo. Guess I'm 100% ELmo-ish!

What Sesame Street Character R U?

You are ELMO. You are cute, and everyone loves you. You are a best friend that no one takes the chance of losing. You don't like to hurt other people's feelings, but if you do it's not intentional. Life is a breeze. You are witty and calm?? most of the time. Just keep clear of backstabbers, and you are worry free.

I went into the and brought us up some pix of the folks who kindly cleaned the lens for us:

The BLOB is back:



Nice parrotfish, wrasse and coney:



And the sun is setting in paradise:

hey rusty, just getting a peek in...been a very emotional day....i just posted a new thread, one of the girls kidnapped in LA is the daughter of a guy I work with...Herb Marris...

OMG - it must have shaken you up having the stepkids with you. Hits close to home when it happens to someone you know!

yep, i have had sarah watching the news with me since I got home...talking to her about being aware of what's around her, and the dangers that are out there...

Blikje - get off the street!

no kidding...i love that dog

Cynde - it'll mean more now than at any other time in her life, I bet! Thank goodness the girls got out of this safe and sound!

Rusty-

Did you notice the questions and summaries for the Sesame Street quiz are the same as the cartoon character quiz?

Sir Glenn, YES! I thought it was deja vu all over again. LOL I didn't THINK that I'd taken that quiz before. Weird.

Sailboat on the horizon:

Very interesting clouds tonight:

Last shot of the day:

The very last shots of the day - night dive!