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Moaning on key [message #44309]

Mon, 15 August 2011 20:08

Maren
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Moaning on key

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Mon, 15 August 2011 23:29

EMoon
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Moaning on key is better than moaning off key...says the person who was up very early listening to the morning moaning of cows while checking on the wildlife watering stations. The neighbor's cows (adjacent to our fence) in conversation with some distant cows (at least two fields west.) These cows do not "moo"....moo suggests coo suggests pleasant dove-like sounds, maybe in a lower key.

No, these cows make loud unfortunate sounds "Mooo-AWWWWWW!" "MOWWW-AWWWWW!" and "OooooouGHHHHH" and occasionally rapid loud resonant grunts that sound oddly like recordings of lions coughing on the veldt. "OUGH! OUGH! OUGH!"

I decided this morning that they were discussing the relative merits of their pastures, the number of predators, the shortage of water, etc. and amused R- by bawling out these comments in cow-voice during breakfast, when I came inside. (This is not good for singing voice, and is thus not a recommendation to Our Hellgoddess to try it.) "GOTTT GRAAAASSS?" "NOOOAWWWW!" "NOTTT USSS!" "WAAWTr?" "NOOAWWWWWW!" "DROWOWOWOWT!" "YAHHHHAWWWW!"

This was also mixed with the goats or sheeps only one field away, who were bleating in that insane way of caprids or ovids who expect to be fed soon. "Nyah-ah-ah-ah!" "MMaa-aa-aa..." I can do goat-voice too...also not good for the singing voice.

Monday here was minimally productive of writing, not at all productive of catching up with stuff, but I did re-read Sayers' Strong Poison. Now I'm struggling not to pick up Gaudy Night.

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Tue, 16 August 2011 00:41

Diane in MN
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Location: Twin Cities, MN, USA

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That young woman, whose name I did not see, has a terrific voice. And she was in high school when the video was made. Wow!

_{"The point of books is to have way too many but to always feel you never have enough . . . " Louise Erdrich}

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Tue, 16 August 2011 02:06

zerlina
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Registered: May 2009
Location: Invercargill, New Zealand

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Isn't she amazing?

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Tue, 16 August 2011 03:39

CathyR
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Registered: July 2009
Location: NW England

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some of what Nadia is trying to teach me is beginning to stick enough that I can use it without her there to chivvy me, there are moments when I’m singing more freely at home than I do in my lesson. There is just beginning to be some dynamic arc to the awful muddle of my Sebben Crudele, and Nadia plucked it from the affray and brushed it off. Here, she said, polishing it on her sleeve. Look.

Yaay. I think.

Yaay!! Most definitely!

And for the Kent as well. Smile

Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.

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Tue, 16 August 2011 13:13

AJLR
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My Inner Child and Outer Adult spent the next six hours arguing.

And I love the bits of the discussion that you reproduced for us to read. Smile

I have internal arguments like that rather too often. Popular topics are a) whether there is a need for more housework to be done, and b) does it really matter if the weeding is left a little longer. Smile

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I’m working too hard. Don’t bother trying to disguise your delight.

Umm. I'm not really delighted - I mean, yes, it's great to know that PEG II is still underway - but not while it's obviously at the expense of your current health and well-being! I'm lighting a candle to whatever beings control these things that the story decides to stop hiding in crevices and resisting your noble and determined efforts to drag it out into the light of day.

_{"Never let a computer know you're in a hurry."}

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Tue, 16 August 2011 14:04

Mrs Redboots
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Registered: October 2008
Location: London, UK

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I do hope the ME stops biting forthwith. How strange that the hellhounds should be suffering, too - perhaps it is the weather, or the humidity, or the pattern in which the dragons are flying.... who knows?

Glad the singing and the ringing went well in spite of everything. I'm afraid my inner child leaps at any excuse to cancel things.... it is less well-trained than yours.

Mrs Redboots
I love my computer because my friends live in it!

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Tue, 16 August 2011 21:06

Nycteris
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Registered: October 2010
Location: Florida

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Yay indeed! I am glad your inner child is so willfull--and productive.

The vowel thing is huge, especially when you are mowed down by the ME, since it takes so much more focus and breath to really string the phrase on the vowel. Brava! And that girl in the YouTube was amazing. That's the kind of young person that makes you feel hopeful for the future.

I love Sebben Crudele, second only to Lasciatemi morire in drama queen fervor.

The only thing better than singing is more singing. - Ella Fitzgerald

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