Just a lot of memories

Before I forget, special awards go to Placio Domingo for making Chinese music sound so good at the Olympic Closing Ceremonies. He took the shrill out of Chinese singing and replaced it with a sweet melody he tried to share with a lady Chinese singer. The lady's voice was typical Chinese shrill which would sound good in China. However, to me it lacked sweetness of a good Operatic tone which is usually associated with songs about love. I liked Placio's duet better than I liked Sarah Brightman's duet in the opening Ceremonies. Placio's duet was the last song of the evening and a nice way to close the show.

In other news, the blue skies have returned to the beach. It was nice to see sunshine reflected on the sand and in the water. The birds and beach going people living together on the shoreline until one gets annoyed with the other. The humans stretched out in their beach lounge chairs suddenly decide, the birds are too close to their territory. The male of the species starts throwing small packed pieces of dirt at the birds to get them to leave. The birds slowly take to flight with their long outstretched wings flapping on the small air currents making shrilling seagull noises. The bird sounds are alarms to let the humans know they are disturbed. They would gladly go away, if they had some morsel of food in their beaks. The seagulls are just hungry birds looking to fill their tummies and grow disinterested in humans after eating. No one at the beach including mom and I had a loaf of bread, we could feed the birds. Mom noticed a couple of the seagulls looking brown in color. There seemed to be more than one variety of bird at the beach. Mom and I noticed a surfer with a sail attached overhead. This surfer seemed to make good speed gliding across the waves with the greatest of ease. The sail helped give the surfboard direction and put a wind motor where non had been there before. It was an interesting sight to see and I regret not taking my camera along for the trip. I guess the reason for leaving it at home would be that I thought this trip was just going to be a shopping trip. I was reluctant at first to leave the comfort of my house to go on a shopping trip, I thought the trip would be dull and boring. I was wrong, I got to compare prices of a regular mop 1.50 and a squeeze mop which was 6 dollars. I wanted a squeeze mop, but I didn't want to pay 6 dollars. I thought maybe someone else would have the mop for a bit cheaper. Again I was wrong, the same mop was 12 dollars at Food Lion. Does this mean I have to swallow my pride and go back and buy the 6 dollar mop? I have not done this deed yet. I have also learned from Food Lion the frozen dinners are mostly in the 3 dollar range. There are specials like 2 for 5 dollars like Hungry man or 4 for 5 dollars like the small versions of Michelina's Swedish Meatballs. The gas prices at the beach are starting to make their decent from the 4 dollar plateau. They are moving not as fast as the prices in Sanford, Florida or Orlando, Florida. However, any drop in gas price to me is a good drop in gas price. Dinner was fried Salmon, part of a sweet potato, one ear of corn and a small salad. Afterwards, this was topped off with some chocolate sugar free cookies. The end to a fun Sunday.