{"id":2755,"date":"2011-08-28T22:11:27","date_gmt":"2011-08-29T02:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=2755"},"modified":"2011-08-28T22:11:27","modified_gmt":"2011-08-29T02:11:27","slug":"sunday-afternoon-goodnight-irene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2011\/08\/28\/sunday-afternoon-goodnight-irene\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday afternoon – Goodnight Irene"},"content":{"rendered":"

I woke today dreaming of the huge storm heading our way.. I jumped to the window and was surprised to see that it was just drizzling out.. .. No matter.. I knew the real fury of the storm was still well south of us..\u00a0 Diane and I ventured outside to secure the yard..Everything like garbage cans\u00a0 that weren’t\u00a0 tied down we dragged in to the garage.. We even tarped Max’s pizza oven<\/p>\n

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I spent the day waiting for the storm to hit.. but.. it really never did.. It rained steadily through the day.. but nothing remarkable. The river by our house is up.. but no more so than during the spring thaws.\u00a0\u00a0 I only recall a few blustery moments.. but even no big wind to speak off…<\/p>\n

I guess I should have been relieved.. but somehow I couldn’t help feeling like we’d been short changed. All od the prep, all of the hype.. for naught.. On the other hand.. I guess I really should be more appreciative.. I do know other parts of the state got hit really hard.. I\u00a0 was very saddened to hear that a woman got swept away by a swollen river in Southern Vermont and presumably drowned…. (I have to sit here a minute after writing that.. how do I keep writing after relating soemthing like that.. ?)<\/p>\n

Bennington and Rutland had major flooding.. I even think nearby Waterbury and Motnpellier had problems… My mom and dad called from Massachusetts to say that a huge tree blew down in their front yard .. it barely missed their house..<\/p>\n

So.. I’l count us as\u00a0 very lucky.. Our thoughts go out to all on the east coast who did get damage..<\/p>\n

It will be nice to see the sun tomorrow..<\/p>\n

I’ll leave you with one of my favorite Ledbelly songs.. “Goodnight Irene”.. been on my mind all day.. <\/p>\n

 
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Last Saturday night I got married
\nWe went and settled down
\nNow me and my wife are parted
\nI think I’ll take a little walk downtown<\/p>\n

Irene good-night, Irene good-night
\nGood-night Irene, good-night Irene
\nI’ll see, I’ll see you in my dreams<\/p>\n

Sometimes I live in the country
\nSometimes I live in the town
\nSometimes I take a fool notion
\nI think I’ll jump in the river and drown<\/p>\n

Irene good-night, Irene good-night
\nGood-night Irene, good-night Irene
\nI’ll see, I’ll see you in my dreams
\nI’ll see, I’ll see you in my dreams<\/p>\n

Now fellas stop your gamblin’
\nStop stayin’ out late every night
\nStay home with your wife and children
\nStay by the fireside light<\/p>\n

Irene good-night, Irene good-night
\nGood-night Irene, good-night Irene
\nI’ll see, I’ll see you in my dreams
\nI’ll see, I’ll see you in my dreams
\nI’ll see, I’ll see you in my dreams…<\/p>\n

nite all, nite sam<\/p>\n

-me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I woke today dreaming of the huge storm heading our way.. I jumped to the window and was surprised to see that it was just drizzling out.. .. No matter.. I knew the real fury of the storm was still well south of us..\u00a0 Diane and I ventured outside to secure the yard..Everything like garbage … Continue reading Sunday afternoon – Goodnight Irene<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[243],"class_list":["post-2755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-goodnight-irene"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2755"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2757,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2755\/revisions\/2757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}