13: Help! I Need Somebody!
1. At the Beatles tribute concert we went to on Saturday, I was surprised that my son Dylan sang along to every song. “You know all the words,” I said to him. “I guess I raised you right.”
2. During the concert, which was an outdoor one at Chantilly Farm, my grandsons didn’t understand why I cried when they played THIS song.
3. When I think about 9/11, I mostly remember that my brothers Jim and Dan had just died and after the buildings came down, killing nearly 3,000 people, I was thinking ‘now the whole world is grief stricken with me.’
4. “We anointed him with “three Wise Men Oil” that my sister Kathy, an aroma-therapist, had brought. We placed the white feather on his pillow next to the pin of Mother Mary that an anonymous late night visitor had left there and sang …When I find myself in times of trouble / Mother Mary comes to me / speaking words of wisdom / Let it be … The nurse removed the breathing tubes when Dan signaled he was ready, like taking Jesus down from the cross he was nailed to …” – From The Jim and Dan Stories, The White Feather 
5. My license plate is L3titB.
6. Said by my 5 year-old grandson Liam while watching Yellow Submarine, “Paul looks like a girl.”
7. THIS is Not Karaoke.
8. When I was young and got my first apartment, I had a sign in the bathroom that said, “She Came In Through the Bathroom Window.”
9. The B in bolder means old is bolder
10. I have a friend named Penny Lane.
11. I also have a friend who was going to name her first child Prudence after “Dear Prudence,” but I talked her out of it and suggested Gretchen, who is full grown now.
12. My niece Molly named her first child Desmond, which reminded us all of this: Desmond has a barrow in the marketplace / Molly is the singer in a band / Desmond says to Molly girl I like your face / And Molly says this as she takes him by the hand / Ob la di ob la da life goes on bra / La la how the life goes on…
13. If you play in Floyd (and especially if it’s Beatles music) you can bet they’ll be dancers. Watch the crowd grow as the song goes on HERE.
_______Thirteen Thursday
September 14th, 2016 6:30 pm
I have to go there one of these days…but I will not be able to dance like no one is watching even among strangers, I am guessing.
September 15th, 2016 11:21 am
You should have made the plates L3tItB, or better yet L3t It B – unless those were already taken. Come to think of it, they probably were.
I never made a particular effort to expose my kids to my kind of music. When my dd said she knew all the words I raised and eyebrow. The rolled her eyes and said, “Dad.”
September 15th, 2016 12:38 pm
You always take wonderful event photos and go to neat places ~ thanks!
Happy Week to you ~ ^_^
September 15th, 2016 1:55 pm
I do wish Botetourt was more like Floyd. You sound like you have such wonderful times there.
September 15th, 2016 2:56 pm
Love number one — and obviously the grandkids are being brought up right as well. I have a friend who was named for a Beatles song, and whose sister was named for a Beach Boys song. My T13
September 15th, 2016 5:08 pm
How often do I catch myself humming Beatles tunes? Eight Days a Week!