BABY ALIVE REFILLS

John Langstaff Sings: Archival Folk Collection, 1949-1961

John Langstaff, now 83 years of age, is the founder and director emeritus of Revels, the non-profit performing arts company that produces Revels Records as well as 'The Christmas Revels' annual winter solstice celebrations in 12 cities across the country. This is the complete collection of Langstaff's disc, featuring all four acclaimed previously re-released CDs originally recorded in England. The recordings have been digitally re-mastered at London's famed Abbey Road Studios. Included are many traditional British and American folk songs and ballads, most with simple, art song settings. Legendary pianists Sir Gerald Moore, Sam Mason and John Powell, as well as guitarist Martin Best, are featured.

We just had our towering indian trees trimmed and cut and so there are empty nests lying around our backyard again... I was kind of half-wishing there was a baby bird left in one of them. I've always been fascinated with nests and little eggs and baby birds (who wouldn't?). But my fascination is a little something of the extraordinary which started when I was a kid. You see, I came across the book "Elizabeth Hatches an Egg," a part of the Sweet Valley Series... That particular book sparked my imagination and curiosity that I wanted so hard to find me an egg and wanted to challenge the possibility of hatching it just by keeping it warm under my pillow. Then I'll have a baby chick that will think I'm his mommy... And I'll have to carry it around and feed its little hungry mouth. Bizarre much? In another SVH book, I forgot the title, the students from Sweet Valley High had an assignment that included taking care of an egg and bringing it to school everyday for several days, taking turns with a partner. At first, it seemed that it was an easy job but later on the students found out that it's quite challenging to keep a little egg safe, or to at least not lose the egg. The assignment, of course, was to teach them responsibility. I also read from another book, I'm not sure but I think it's from The Babysitter's Club series, the students where each given a sandbag to carry around like it's a baby. Aside from responsibility, I assume the assignment was to imply that child-rearing isn't all that easy. For some reason, that kind of assignment thrilled me. And I remember wishing we could do it at school back then. As I grew older, I also loved babysitting my twin cousins when they were little tots. I really loved babies and kids..! I would feel proud if I lulled a baby to sleep. And when my friends started having their own kids, I felt quite jealous. So jealous that I told my husband, my then fiance, I wanted to have a baby already. And he felt the same. ¦


And now you see, I have my little boy already... I now have a little hungry mouth to feed, an egg to take care of, and a sandbag to carry around, a very mobile sandbag at that... ^_^

Has a simple hobby like birdwatching become an obsession when the highlight of your week is when your bulk order of 5000 mealworms comes in? Or can you call it obsession when you are buying a 13 lb box of oranges at Costco and a woman also buying some tells you how much her and her husband love these oranges and you reply " these are for MY Orioles" Oh well I guess I could have a lot worse obsessions. Glad you all enjoy it with me.

Buddy and Holly seem to be doing well and constantly feeding as you can see. It has been very cold and rainy this week, so the nest checks have been very quick and not many good shots. I take one or two quick ones and if they don't turn out..I have to wait until tomorrow.
Hope to have some soon.