Come Saturday Morning

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Come Saturday Morning

Welcome to Saturday 9. What we've committed to our readers is that we will post 9 questions every Saturday. Sometimes the post will have a theme, and at other times the questions will be totally unrelated. Those weeks we do "random questions," so-to-speak. We encourage you to visit other participants posts and leave a comment. Because we don't have any rules, it is your choice. We hate rules. We love memes, however, and here is today's meme! 

Saturday 9: Come Saturday Morning (1969)

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

1) What are your plans for this Saturday morning?Saturday was designated as  clean and organize my closet and clean up the guest room which is also my dressing room...  It  can  become quite  a mess over time..

2) In this song, a man sings of going away for the day with a friend. Where did you go on your last day trip?

It was to Charlottesville to have a check up with my  dermatologist and MOHs surgeon.  But we make a great day of it..  They have a stand alone Home Goods which I love and   we love to shop  in other  boutiques and dine out!!

3) The lyrics say, "we will remember long after Saturday's gone." What's something you've done recently that you predict you'll remember for a long time to come?I have been planning a return trip to Ireland...  but this time our daughter and her family will be going and  my son-in -law will drive, so  we are seeing everything that  comes along... I love planning it.. it is almost like I've been there... my notebook I'm keeping  brings everything into a surreal reality...  Ireland is such a dream to me!!!

4) This song was the Oscar-nominated theme from the movie The Sterile Cuckoo. What's the first movie song that pops into your head?

Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head..I heard it  just this week!  Loved that song and the movie!

5) In the movie, Liza Minnelli played Mary Ann Adams, an eccentric girl everyone called "Pookie." Have you ever been known by a memorable nickname? Who gave it to you?

I use the nickname online that  my husband gave me  when we were first married...Schotzy!
  

6) Today's group began their career as The Grads. Recording artist/producer Herb Alpert liked their sound but hated their name. Alpert picked "sandpiper" at random out of the dictionary. Do you still have and use a bound dictionary? Or do you rely on the internet for word searches and spelling?  I kept my wonderful college dictionary,  but seldom use it now.  I'm glad to have it,  but  I  do use the internet now!

7) The biggest news story of 1969, the year this song was popular, was one of the biggest news stories of all time. On July 20, Neil Armstrong stepped foot on the moon. Other than the moon landing, what's the most consequential event that you've seen in your lifetime. How do you feel it changed America, and the world?  First of all,   Roe Vs Wade  made abortion legal  which  opened the door for a spirit of death to fall on our nation...

I was in the 8th grade in Economics class when we heard that President Kennedy had been shot..He was so beloved  by so many,  it shook my world,,  but  I believe it ushered a period of violence that has    escalated until today..  Because  in that decade we saw the assassinations, also, of  Martin Luther King and Bobbie Kennedy..  and of course, the  Vietnam War, like many wars since'
  we make  such a terrible sacrifice,   but  cannot  and do not win...

8)1969 was a big year for music festivals, with Atlanta, Toronto and Woodstock all holding famous fests. Have you visited Georgia, Ontario or New York (state)? 

All but Ontario, and when we drive up to see our  daughter  we drive right past Woodstock.. I cannot help but think of  that time in 1969... I was in college and  loved the music but would never have actually gone to  it... Was so filthy dirty  and  I believe a bit wild for my tastes~

9) Random question -- According to some plant enthusiasts, house plants do better when they're spoken to. Do you talk to your plants?

Not usually!