“In nature, everything has a job. The job of the fog is to beautify further the existing beauties!”
Yesterday in the late afternoon when I went to get my mail, I noticed the fog rolling in, a hazy mist moving down the street. The air got chilly and damp, but I stayed outside drawn by the fog. The end of the street began to disappear and was soon lost in the mist. Later, in the early evening, I went to the door to check the fog and found it was raining, a gentle rain so quiet I never heard it.
This morning was overcast and damp. It reminded me of vacation mornings near the ocean. I was usually the first awake and the first to go outside. Everything was quiet, no one else was stirring so the world belonged only to me. I had that same feeling this morning only I was sharing the world with Gracie who stood beside me patiently waiting so we could go inside.
The morning breeze has blown away the clouds, and we have sun and blue skies.
The TV has been bountiful for me this morning. The first gift was a film called Satellite in the Sky. I won’t even get into the special effects except to say it was 1956 so just imagine the smoke and the fire from the engine, the missing weightlessness and the arrays of buttons and switches. The plane, sort of a rocket ship, carried a full crew and a stowaway, a woman reporter. Luckily she had found the perfect hiding place where she also found a uniform which fit her as if it had been sized. She added a scarf around her neck for the sake of fashion. After she was discovered, her next scene was when she brought coffee to the crew. Now the ship was complete with a stewardess. Later she also brought sandwiches. She and the captain, originally at odds about the ship, both agree that the Tritbonium Bomb strapped to the bottom was wrong. A kiss sealed their agreement.
The second gift was one part of The Batman serial from 1943. The only actor I recognized was J. Carrol Naish as the villain, a Japanese spymaster named Dr. Daka. He had a machine which turned people into willing to do anything live zombies. After their transformations, they all wore contraptions on their heads which looked like colanders with antennae. It was through these contraptions the zombies received Dr. Daka’s orders. My favorite tidbit is The Batman (always The Batman) and Robin usually rode in the limo driven by Alfred, even when as The Batman and Robin. Their hero outfits were worn under their clothes. The bat cave was accessed through the grandfather’s clock in the spacious living room. This week’s episode ended when The Batman, a captive locked in a wooden box, is dropped to the hungry crocodiles. The last thing you hear is a scream. Will The Batman be saved or he is really lunch meat? You’ll have to wait until next week to find out!
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Tags: 1956, Alfred the butler, blue sky, buttons and switches, dampness, Dr. Daka, fog, gentle rain, mist, overcast and cloudy, Satellite in the Sky, sunny, The Batman 1943, Tritbonium Bomb
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June 13, 2015 at 12:27 pm
In the 1950s woman could work outside the home but they couldn’t neglect their first job to serve coffee and sandwiches to the male captain. Maybe that’s what attracted me to the aviation field. 🙂
June 13, 2015 at 1:34 pm
Bob,
Good thing you added the smiling face or they’d be a diatribe here!
June 13, 2015 at 2:14 pm
As Walter Cronkite used to say “And that’s the way it was, June 13th 1954”. Glad I never became an airline pilot because the real flight attendants never looked as good as they did in the movies or in the print and TV ads. 😉
June 13, 2015 at 3:50 pm
Bob,
I really don’t remember most of them. They were really just glorified waitresses in the air.
June 13, 2015 at 1:56 pm
We’ve had a rather wonderful day here again, slightly cooler but with higher humidity, it was nasty for a while and I would have loved some of Your fog. Now a nice drizzle is falling and it has cooled down considerable but it is still very nice outside.
We’ve had a royal wedding here, our Prince married the girl of the people. I didn’t watch it but I guess it was beautiful, it usually is. After all it costed us around one million US dollars in tax money so I would be disappointed if it wasn’t beautiful 🙂
The prince is now number three in the succession to the Swedish throne. I also heard he is number 248 to the British thrown 🙂 I think we all should be very happy that all our princes and princesses married a commoner, the inbreeding in the royal houses in Europe would have been even worse if they hadn’t 🙂 🙂 🙂
I woke up so early this morning that I’ve taken several naps but I’m still very tired 🙂 I sat in front of the tv thinking about making a nectarine and aronia pie when my neighbor called on the phone. She stood outside my door with a big piece of strawberry cake wondering if I would like to have it 🙂 She and her boyfriend, who of course also is my neighbor had celebrated a joint birthday. I still wonder why she didn’t knock on the door though, after all she stood beside it when she called 🙂 🙂 🙂
I wish they could send that movie here on channel six tonight, I love those oldies 🙂 Instead they’ll show Unstoppable, not a bad movie to be honest but not good enough or funny enough to stay up all night when being tired 🙂
Have a great day!
Christer.
June 13, 2015 at 3:55 pm
Christer,
Today is a perfect day with temps in the low 70’s, little humidity and sun with blue skies.
I would have watched the wedding. I’m a sucker for the pageantry of royal weddings. I love the colors, the clothes and the decorations.
I had to look up arena and found it to be chokeberry. Maybe she called on the phone as it wouldn’t have the dogs getting up and parking. She wanted to warn you she was coming. How nice of her to bring you a piece.
You would have loved that movie. The special effects were cheesy but come to find out the special effects guy helped out on 2001: A Space Odyssey but I’m thinking over the years effects got so much better.
Have a great evening!