Cape Town Mission Field
22 May 2018
Day 164
Tuesday
Today is our typical visit to the Post Office and boarding supply run to the Makro store. Sister Courtright found a sale on iron's so she picked up a couple. We usually get one returned every several weeks from one of the elders whose iron quits on them. Usually Elder Courtright will get a call from an elder that sales their flat has no electricity, but only on the wall outlets. He will ask if they were ironing. Most often they have been and their breaker tripped because the iron is about to die and pulling too much current.
Elder Bullman called from the East Cape and was disappointed that one of the packages he received had been opened and the DVD inside was missing. Unfortunately, this happens more often than you would think. The post from international destinations seems to travel through a lot of corrupt hands.
We took a pair of elders to the dealer to pick up their car and on the way the classical radio station began to play Mariah from Paint Your Wagon. Of course Elder Courtright broke out into song and the elders asked if he liked to sing. He indicated that he likes to sing but only to himself. When asked if they had seen Paint Your Wagon they replied that they hadn't and were surprised to hear that Clint Eastwood and Lee Marvin sang in a musical. To which Elder Courtright replied that "Tough Guys Sing", which makes him feel better about singing to himself. Upon reflection there are a lot of tough guys that sang. Here's a list off the cuff that I can recall from my youth:
Clint Eastwood "I talk to the trees" from Paint Your Wagon
Lee Marvin "Wandering Star" from Paint Your Wagon
Robert Mitchum "Thunder Road" from same movie
Lorne Green "Ringo"
Kirk Douglas "Whale of a Tale" from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Sean Connery "My Dear, my Darling One" from Darby O'gill and the Little People"
John Wayne he was contracted as a singing cowboy in his early film career but it turned out he couldn't sing so most of his singing was dubbed. But he did sing occasionally in some of his later movies. The one I recall most is an album that is mostly spoken words or poetry, not so much any singing, but put to music and it was called America, why I Love Her.
We took a pair of elders to the dealer to pick up their car and on the way the classical radio station began to play Mariah from Paint Your Wagon. Of course Elder Courtright broke out into song and the elders asked if he liked to sing. He indicated that he likes to sing but only to himself. When asked if they had seen Paint Your Wagon they replied that they hadn't and were surprised to hear that Clint Eastwood and Lee Marvin sang in a musical. To which Elder Courtright replied that "Tough Guys Sing", which makes him feel better about singing to himself. Upon reflection there are a lot of tough guys that sang. Here's a list off the cuff that I can recall from my youth:
Clint Eastwood "I talk to the trees" from Paint Your Wagon
Lee Marvin "Wandering Star" from Paint Your Wagon
Robert Mitchum "Thunder Road" from same movie
Lorne Green "Ringo"
Kirk Douglas "Whale of a Tale" from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Sean Connery "My Dear, my Darling One" from Darby O'gill and the Little People"
John Wayne he was contracted as a singing cowboy in his early film career but it turned out he couldn't sing so most of his singing was dubbed. But he did sing occasionally in some of his later movies. The one I recall most is an album that is mostly spoken words or poetry, not so much any singing, but put to music and it was called America, why I Love Her.
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