Here’s a surprise – A full weekend for us of ballroom, a special dance competition, a birthday party, and we saw the movie The Trip to Italy, which wasn’t my cup of tea but the scenery and the food looked fabulous. The dance competition was so special, I should do a post on it. The handbell choir played again this weekend, and 1 or 2 people noticed I wasn’t playing, thus said something. For those interested, here’s their piece.
Happy Thanksgiving to my Canadian friends for their Monday celebration. Don’t forget to search Trash Can Turkey on YouTube because that’s how Catherine’s (@Always a Redhead) family cooks their turkey. Fascinating, especially because I never heard of this.
Life: The Musical returns this week with Act 10 being all about Play … after all, Act 9 featured Work. So get your songs ready with any of the following in the title: Play, Playing, Fun (not funny), OR any fun activity. Be careful because some word as Play and Playing can be used in situations that aren’t fun, in which the producer could be a bit testy. Curtain time is this Wednesday, 9:30 PM (Eastern US).
Celebrations for your week
- (Week) Pet Peeve Week, Take Your Medicine Week, Bone & Joint Health Awareness Week, Earth Science Week, Getting the World to Beat a Path to Your Door Week, Chestnut Week, Food Bank Week, Teen Read Week, Veterinary Technicians Week, Week without Violence Week, Rainforest Week, Food & Drug Interactions Week, Space Week, Fire Prevention Week, Home Based Business Week
- (Mon) Kick Butt Day, Yorkshire Pudding Day, Skeptics Day, African Penguin Awareness Day, Chess Day, Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day, International Day of Failure, Egg Day, Train Your Brain Day, Canadian Thanksgiving
- (Tues) Wear It Pink Day, Be Bald and Be Free Day (Bold is Beautiful Day), Face Your Fears Day, Spider Man Day, Chocolate Covered Insects Day
- (Wed) Hagfish Day, Information Overload Day, Mushroom Day, Day of Rural Women, Roasted Pheasant Day, Chicken Cacciatore Day, Cake Decorating Day, I Love Lucy Day, Fossil Day, Poetry Day, Take Your Parents to Lunch Day, Grouch Day, Latino AIDS Awareness Day, White Cane Safety Day, Mom is a Student Day, Pregnancy & Infant Loss Awareness Day
- (Thurs) Department Store Day, Oatmeal Day, Dictionary Day, Boss’s Day (which is actually everyday), Get to Know Your Customers Day, Get Smart about Credit Day, Feral Cat Day, World Food Day, Conflict Resolution Day, Spirit Day
To send you into the week with a smile, here’s a local news report about an annual Cincinnati event that occurred in September. Besides, I imagine somebody somewhere celebrated Octoberfest this past weekend. I love this because I can see two of the dogs of friends in our new neighborhood doing this … especially with me at one end. Enjoy and have a good week.
A Frank Angle 
Now I’ve heard everything. No frying? Trash can turkey? I’ll have to check that one out.
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SK,
Yep … no long-time in the oven … no frying … I had never heard of it either,
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i would love a getting the world to NOT beat a path to your door week & even happier if it was a year instead of just a week.
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Errin,
Well said … Just leave you alone.
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lol
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I LOVE hand bell choirs. Pet Peeve Week–gosh, do ya have an hour? And Conflict Resolution Day–good luck with that. Face Your Fears Day sounds good, and of course Poetry Day; LOVE Dictionary Day! Internat’l Day of Failure?? oh dear
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Ponder,
Because you say you love handbell choirs, the topic gets it’s own Category here, so check it out! … and many good pieces are found on the result page after the click. Better yet, here’s the link. https://afrankangle.wordpress.com/category/handbells/ .. Enjoy!
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Yes please, a post about the ballroom dancing! I am a huge fan of dancing – can’t do it to save my life – but religiously watch many global versions of DWTS 🙂 I shall try and put a bit of thought into the musical – and not just race back in with the obvious choice as soon as the post comes into my in-box…….. I think it is a nice reflection on your ability and presence that you are noticed missing from the hand bell group!
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Pauline,
I know you enjoy DWTS, and I’ve drafted the post, which hopefully I can finish it soon. As for the handbell choir, they are doing fine without me, but I was in it double-digit years and it will be interesting to see what comments I receive … but honestly, I don’t anticipate many.
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I was just looking through my fridge to see what I should make for dinner tomorrow night, and I thought, hmm, I’ve got chicken breasts in there, I’ll make chicken cacciatore. And then I see in your post that Wednesday is Chicken Cacciatore Day. I don’t suppose anyone will care if I celebrate it early, will they?…
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Carrie,
I hope you realize that you just announced yourself to the Chicken Cacciatore Police!
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Well, as long as it’s not the chicken Marsala police. Those guys are much tougher.
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They can be brutally unsympathetic.
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Ahhh my day – Be Bald and Be Free Day…. does Spider-man actually get a day ?? Fascinating….
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Bulldog,
If you meet with any clients on Tuesday, use Be Bald and Be Free Day as part of your sales pitch .. .after all, it may make the sale!
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I’m ready for Wednesday, Frank. At least I hope so! I have a new fun pastime – playing Ukulele! I spent several hours practicing this weekend.
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Cathy,
To my knowledge, you are the first ukulele-playing visitor here. 🙂
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Kick Butt Day during Pet Peeve Week……how serendipitous! 🙂 Love your lists Frank. Look forward to your dance post with anticipation.
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Madhu,
Cheers to your serendipity! I’m trying to prepare the dance story to be the next post … so hopefully I can get it done because it is a fabulous story.
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I’m ready to Kick Butt after I finish celebrating the International Day of Failure. 😀 I’m off to check out this trash can turkey. Never heard of it.
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Robin,
Thanks for making me realize I’m not the only person on the planet who never heard of trash can turkey! Meanwhile, that’s a great combination of events!!!!
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Lovely hand bell piece, Frank. Glad you were missed. Sounds like you had a very full weekend. I’d love to see you dance. Do you have any videos?
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Sylvia,
Sorry, we don’t publish any videos of us dancing. In terms of the Saturday’s event, given the nature of the event, it’s not publish them … but if one becomes available from the organizer, I just may provide a link.
The handbell piece uses a singing bell technique with the ringer moving a 1-inch wooden dowel along the rim much like what people do with their finger on the rim of a wine glass). Definitely interesting to see.
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Oh – FUN weekend for you! 🙂
On Take Your Medicine Week – A must! I had another &*^%$#@! migraine yesterday.
Woe is me head.
LOL on the weiner races. 😆
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RoSy,
You will learn more about my weekend in the next post. Meanwhile, hooray … someone watched the weiner races!
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I look forward to hearing more about it!
I had too. I HEART dogs.
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My neighbors have two of those dogs, and they tell me they may enter them next year and if I can be at the finish line … because those two dogs love the neighbor!
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Oh – that would be so awesome!
I hope they do enter them Please keep us posted if they do.
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If so, it would be next mid-September!
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You should definitely do the ballroom post Frank!
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Colline,
The post about the event is up in about 90 minutes!
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It seems the polls are in favor of a ballroom dance video. I vote yes!!
Shine up your dance shoes and start the video taping. 😁
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Isadora,
The chances of seeing my wife and I dance are slim … but the odds are better if the organizer releases a video (or more) about this past weekend. Meanwhile, I am posting about the event in about 80 minutes. Thanks for the encouragement.
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I liked the bell choir piece “Transformation.” Very transparent sounding.
Thanks for the remind that this is “Veterinary Technicians Week” which will remind me to schedule our cat for Thanksgiving and Christmas vacation boarding when we visit the relatives.
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Tim,
To me, Transformation was a bit ethereal … but I enjoyed it more in person than I did when I first heard the recording. Meanwhile, don’t forget to schedule the pet boarding!
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Glad you had such fun. I did too — I went to my 40th high school reunion.
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Elyse,
I imagine you had a great time at the reunion … and of course people loved seeing you. Did John go? BTW … you and my wife went different schools together!
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That is undoubtedly because she’s the Right angle!
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LOL … BTW … I’m surprised you didn’t comment on the video.
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Words failed me …
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I only expected it because of your love of dogs.
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Yes. I know!
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Poetry Day is every day, so for a special observance I guess I’ll go with Day of Rural Women, since I are one….
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Cynthia,
You are definitely one rural poet with a great wit!
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What’s Hagfish Day, Frank — a fish who’s completely let herself go and doesn’t care what anyone thinks?
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Hagfish are a primitive cartilaginous fish … here’s some pics .. http://tinyurl.com/p45wqyt
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Whoa, that is one fugly fish! I hope they’re attractive to each other!
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Each other is all they would need. 😉 … You may have heard of their relatives … the lamprey.
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No, I’m not much a fishologist, Frank, but if I were inclined to date a fish, it would definitely be a type with a jaw — not some ghastly sucker that looked a lot like the humorless cretin who took my driver’s license photo some years back.
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LMAO … The hagfish and lamprey would deliver one heck of a hickey!
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And spawn DMV employees!
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Now there’s a priceless thought!
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Week ahead has some strange celebrations…
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Audra,
… thus my kind of week! 😉
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( thanks for the new shout out on your sidebar)
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You are very welcome … I changed it immediately once I knew your new location, but I’m also in the process of reorganizing the bloggers … thus will announce more later.
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Frank, great post! Today I celebrate “Chocolate Covered Insects Day” w/o the insects!
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Mary,
LOL … and that’s OK. 🙂
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Yes to Octoberfest! (Go wiener dogs and pumpkin ale)
Looking to play!(Wed here will definitely be information overload day?)
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Mouse,
I think I got the Octoberfest idea from you!!! Meanwhile, I had my first pumpkin ale last year, so it tis the season.
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The Running of the Weiners is my kind of race! I had a dachshund when I was a child…I still think of that dog from time to time. I hope you’ll post about the dance competition. I would enjoy hearing more. I’ll have to put my thinking cap on for tomorrow night’s “Life, The Musical.” One or two come to mind, but because they came so easily, I’d like to do better than that. 🙂 See you tomorrow night, Frank.
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Debra,
Cheers to your love for the Weiner Dog Race … the buns they wear crack me up. Nonetheless, that race is part of Octoberfest Zinzinnati, one of the bigger and better ones outside of Munich.
The dance competition post is up (Special Event) … and knowing your musical mind, you’ll come up with something for Life: The Musical.
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