Back at It

MORE, MORE, MORE: Our garden just keeps on giving. Today, we made Round 3 of salsa verde, the tomatillos and peppers all from our garden, we just had to go to the store for cilantro, onion and lime juice.

KINDA SORTA BACK-TO-SCHOOL: Today marked the first day of the kids once-a-week school up in Shoreline. No classes today, just signing in and doing some paperwork. Next Wednesday they'll be taking science and an investigation-type class together, plus Annabelle will have an art class. 

On the way home, we stopped by a Domino's for the free pizza we won as part of their Domino-no promotion, thanks to Philadelphia Phillies pitchers combining for a no hitter a couple of days ago.

A BUSTLE IN OUR HEDGEROW:  Today, we started the History of Rock, Part 2 class (via Coursera). Hooray! We've been looking forward to this since the day part one of the class ended a few months ago.

Today's lectures included British based blues rock of the late 1960s and early 1970s. There was talk of Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, and, of course, Led Zeppelin. 

The kids were both familiar-ish with the penultimate "Stairway to Heaven," but today they watched the concert footage of it from "The Song Remains the Same." I warned them that the joke used to be that when DJs wanted to go to the bathroom, they'd put Stairway on ... it's that long. The video we watched today was an 11 minute commitment, DEFINITELY worth that. It is simply glorious. Robert Plant, John Paul Jones, and Jimi Page were so young when this concert was filmed live in NYC!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Q7Vr3yQYWQ

For contrast, afterward, I had to show the kids video of "Stairway to Heaven" being performed in tribute to the band when Led Zeppelin was part of the Kennedy Center Honors program in 2012. It is poignant watching the now senior citizens watching their work being kept very much alive.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JK_DOJa99oo


Another thing we learned today that I guess I already knew on some level but had never really thought about was the fact that AM radio was primarily for artists popping out singles, while FM was the land of the LP (think "Dark Side of the Moon").  We also learned that Black Sabbath was named after a Boris Karloff movie, and it was a purposeful, opposite end of the spectrum answer to the happy go lucky 'flower power' hippie movement at the end of the '60s.