THE SONGS OF A NIGHTINGAIL

  The first radio I remember my family having.  1941. Later we acquired a radio similar to this beauty.  I remember my brother and me listening to shows on it like “The Lone Ranger”, “Roy Rogers”, “Hopalong Cassidy”, “Fibber McGee & Molly”, “George Burns & Gracie Allen” and several others. Eventually I had a radio of my own   in my bedroom  very like this 1950s model. Somewhat after that I got this portable to take to the beach.  The handle was cleverly an antenna I could swivel to find the best reception. Then along came transistor radios in the ’60s.  I had one similar to this one. I'll bet you wouldn’t have thought I’d have a picture of a bird with a radio, but I do!   J This is my little parakeet, “Tweety”, in 1961 listening to music on my transistor radio.  I mentioned some of the radio shows my brother and I listened to.  This is the cast of the “Fibber McGee & Molly” show as presented by the “Pine Cone Players”. ...

   My husband’s grandfather, Fred Latham Perlee, with his three sons L-R: Al, Melvin, & Charles (my husband’s dad)  c.1915. My husband’s mother, Virginia Rossmore Brasier Perlee with her three children in 1948.  My husband is on the right.  To his right are his younger sister and older brother. My paternal great grandmother, Ella Chase Taylor, with her Aunt Susan.  Ella’s mother died when she was 2 years old so she was raised by her aunt My Dad’s family c. 1924.  My Dad is kneeling with his younger sister, Ruth.  In back are his mother, Harriet (Hattie) Bell Smedley Bradley, his older sisters Frances & Harriet, and his father, Frank Herbert Bradley. My mother, Lillian Adelle Whitney, age 12, with her mother, Bertha Louise Parton Whitney in 1930. My Dad and me, 1942 Mom and me, 1944. My Mom & Dad with me and my brother & middle sister at Pinecrest in 1947. My Dad with my sisters in 1960 at Big Sur. My husband and me with our son in...

  Do you think of ducks when someone says “all in a row”?   ‘Get your ducks all in a row’?    My post this weekend is based on how ducks in a row compare with other things in a row such as    A family of ducks sitting in a row. A family sitting in a row. Young ducklings in a row. Young cousins in a row. Ducks in a row on a log. Kids in a row on a log.  Singing ducks in rows. Singing singers in rows. A row of dancing ducks. A row of dancers. Ducks in costumes in a couple of rows Actors in costumes in a couple of rows. One duck above the rest :-> La Nightingail (he's on stilts) P.S.  That very tall duck was known as “Long Boi”. “Long Boi” made a big splash on social media, picking up more than 30,000 Instagram followers amazed by his size.  Long Boi, lived on the University of York campus & waddled onto Twitter and Reddit when users spotted him and believed him to be the tallest mallard duck to have ever lived. According ...

  Profile pix are hard to come by, but I found a few . . . My husband’s grandmother, Daisy May Elizabeth Young, c. 1930s My grandmother, Bertha Louise Parton Whitney c. 1930s. My husband and his older brother in Halloween costumes in the mid 1940s. Me, my brother, and middle sister beside the Truckee River in Reno in 1947.  It's hard to tell in this photo, but I was wearing a pair of white-framed sunglasses - the first pair of sunglasses I'd ever had and I remember feeling so grown up because I was wearing sunglasses like my Mom and Dad. :) A profile portrait of me in 1950. And in 1964.. ‘Louella Parsons’ & ‘Hedda Hatter’ (yours truly) in a “Pine Cone Players” skit a few years ago. :-> La Nightingail