Question: You run a secretarial agency, a client calls and tells you his name is Lionel Hardcastle. . . . Why wouldn't you remember? Heck, I haven't forgotten Alan Gates, and that's a lot more common name.
Bill, it's the operating basis of "As Time Goes By"--Jean and Lionel are young lovers in 1953. He's posted to Korea, sends her a letter with his address. It gets lost. They both assume they've been abandoned, betrayed. . . . 38 years later, he calls Jean who now runs a secretarial agency. . . . It takes face to face to get them to remember each other. . . . supposedly.
Sun rose at 0706 this morning, which is, adjusting for the time change, about half an hour earlier than two weeks ago. I remember reading that as the year goes by the mornings and evenings change lengths at different rates.
No big changes in the agricultural survey since two weeks ago; all the almond blossoms have fallen and the trees are pretty well leafed out; no leaves or blossoms on the pistachios yet. Grape vines are all showing leaves, and the winter wheat (or whatever grain it is) is taller. In this area tamarisks were long ago planted as decorative trees, and some have escaped into a couple of arroyos; for some reason they have not become the horrible pests they have in the Colorado River basin. They are in bloom now—rather pretty pink flowers.
Wouldn't say this has been a particularly lazy Saturday, between work and getting reading material set up for my trip next week. Although the book I particularly need to read is a dead-tree version I'm getting through interlibrary loan, and it hasn't arrived yet.
That's Spinnaker taking it easy. She's the flashy-style kitty out in front who really keeps things moving, just like a spinnaker sail. Mizzen is the smaller, more behind the scenes kitty, who is the rudder of the day, just like a mizzen sail. ;-)
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Question: You run a secretarial agency, a client calls and tells you his name is Lionel Hardcastle. . . . Why wouldn't you remember? Heck, I haven't forgotten Alan Gates, and that's a lot more common name.
ReplyDeleteRemember what? I can't particularly recall hearing either name.
DeleteBill, it's the operating basis of "As Time Goes By"--Jean and Lionel are young lovers in 1953. He's posted to Korea, sends her a letter with his address. It gets lost. They both assume they've been abandoned, betrayed. . . . 38 years later, he calls Jean who now runs a secretarial agency. . . . It takes face to face to get them to remember each other. . . . supposedly.
DeleteAlan Gates was my first love. The summer before I turned 17. . . .
DeleteOh, OK. I'm not familiar with the story, so it didn't occur to me that this was a *fictional* secretarial agency.
DeleteIs that Spinnaker or Mizzen? She looks just like Nickie. Soooo cute.
ReplyDeleteAlan, now I have this picture of gremlins surfing gravity wave.
ReplyDeleteThe new DVD player hasn't been set up yet. Er, it's complicated - not the player, the circumstances..
Idle curiosity only on my part.
Delete—Alan
Sun rose at 0706 this morning, which is, adjusting for the time change, about half an hour earlier than two weeks ago. I remember reading that as the year goes by the mornings and evenings change lengths at different rates.
ReplyDeleteNo big changes in the agricultural survey since two weeks ago; all the almond blossoms have fallen and the trees are pretty well leafed out; no leaves or blossoms on the pistachios yet. Grape vines are all showing leaves, and the winter wheat (or whatever grain it is) is taller. In this area tamarisks were long ago planted as decorative trees, and some have escaped into a couple of arroyos; for some reason they have not become the horrible pests they have in the Colorado River basin. They are in bloom now—rather pretty pink flowers.
—Alan
Hi back atcha!
ReplyDeleteWouldn't say this has been a particularly lazy Saturday, between work and getting reading material set up for my trip next week. Although the book I particularly need to read is a dead-tree version I'm getting through interlibrary loan, and it hasn't arrived yet.
Hi!
ReplyDelete—Alan
It's only a lazy Saturday for cats. ;-)
ReplyDeleteThat's Spinnaker taking it easy. She's the flashy-style kitty out in front who really keeps things moving, just like a spinnaker sail. Mizzen is the smaller, more behind the scenes kitty, who is the rudder of the day, just like a mizzen sail. ;-)