1. In my years working at Lane Community College, on two separate occasions, students brought huge snakes to class. One woman brought her snake in fulfillment of an assignment I gave to illustrate the essay she, like everyone else, read aloud in class. The other student? Well, she just showed up with this huge snake wrapped around her shoulders. It wasn't a part of anything we were doing in class.
I know in the second instance, one student in the class ran out of the room shaking, nearly sobbing, panicked. She had a profound fear of snakes. (The day's snake handler took her snake away.) I don't remember if anyone had a similar reaction in the first instance.
These two instances played out in my mind's eye today because our granddaughter, Ellie, turns six on Tuesday, and she and a friend celebrated with a shared party today.
A big hit at the party turned out to be reptiles, including huge snakes!
An outfit that brings reptiles to birthday parties and other situations was hired for today's party to educate the children and adults about reptiles and provide some unique fun.
I repeat.
The children loved it!
Adrienne sent us a terrific video of a huge snake wrapped around Ellie and I immediately hoped that her experience would help her think of snakes in a positive way -- in other words, I hope her birthday party experience has more influence on her than all those scary scenes from movies and myths that present snakes as evil and aggressive. (I know there are also snakes to be cautious of.)
Adrienne also sent a picture of herself enfolded by a snake.
Yes!
2. It's cooled of splendidly here in the Silver Valley.
It's raining some.
Debbie and I settled in for the day and were so comfortable that we decided we'd like to stay home rather than attend this evening's Pork and Apple Feed at the Elks.
Suddenly, however, Debbie changed her mind.
She wanted to go to The Lounge and see about getting two pork and apple dinners to go at the Elks.
I was really comfortable and content indoors and I declined.
This also meant that it was likely I would not be preparing Cincinatti Chili for dinner, as originally planned.
Debbie returned home with two dinners.
The pork was tender, the apples complimented the meat perfectly, and I really enjoyed the baked beans, cole slaw, and dinner roll.
It made me very happy to contribute to this Elks fundraiser and that Debbie contributed a little more by buying tickets for the several drawings that took place during dinner.
Ed called me later to report that Debbie had won a basket and she gave it to Ed and Nancy.
It was all good.
3. Until late this evening, I had never seen AC/DC's official video of the song "It's a Long Way to the Top", but I took a break from Brahm's 4th symphony and other similar music and watched it.
The band plays on the back of a truck on a street in Melbourne and when Bon Scott plays his bagpipe, he's joined by other bagpipers to give added strength and volume to the bagpipe sections of the song.
It's thrilling.
Watching AC/DC perform in the 1970s prior to Bon Scott's death, I understand in a way I never did before what a daunting challenge the band faced when they decided to keep going with a new front man.
I gotta say: the rock gods looked down on AC/DC with favor when Brian Johnson auditioned and turned out to be their guy.
Bon Scott was awesome.
So is Brian Johnson.
And, by the way, Angus Young is 70. Brian Johnson is 78.
And, for AC/DC, 2025 has been and continues to be a year of international touring and rockin' live performances.
Here's a link to the official video of "It's a Long Way to the Top": AC/DC - It's A Long Way To The Top (Official Video Ver.2), Full HD (AI Remastered and Upscaled)
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