Jacqueline MoodyJammin’ Jests, Jukin’ Jives, & Jolly Roger Justice

We used to sing this song in the car while driving through Georgia and Alabama. Typically, someone spotting a cotton field would start it.
Cotton Needs a Pickin’
Cotton needs a pickin’ so bad
Cotton needs a pickin’ so bad
Cotton needs a pickin’ so bad
I’m gonna pick all over this field.
Planted this cotton in April
On the full of [...]

There’s some pretty cool things you can see from a satellite view that you’d never see from the ground.  You can see them yourself in Google Earth.  Here’s a couple of them.
Jesus Loves You Sign:  43°38′46.09″N 115°59′35.81″W
Firefox Logo:  45° 7′25.87″N 123° 6′48.97″W
If you really want to experience the crop circles in style, try the flight [...]

I got my first rewards based on my new Chase Freedom Plus world card.  The basics of the plus are that I earn 3% cash back on 6 categories instead of 3, there’s no limit to the bonus cash back rewards earned,  and some other things such as rewards not expiring.  On the downside, there is [...]

This is another song we sang as kids.  I remember them from YMCA day camp and the catchy tune makes it a favorite earworm.  The children’s song was adapted from Turkey in the Straw, written in the 1800s. There have been many rewritings of the lyrics, including some that are not G rated.  We only [...]

As someone who advocates a low-carb diet, I don’t get very excited over sliced bread, but I do get very excited over saving some dough! Thanks to the credit report business getting more competitive, I was able to do just that today.  There are a few different free credit score companies that have popped up.  I [...]

This is a folk song from the 1800s, but we probably knew it from Dinah Shore’s recording of it in 1951.  I always thought it was hillarious.  Here’s the lyrics as we sang them:
 

(Chorus) Sweet violets, sweeter than the roses,
Covered all over from head to toe,
Covered all over in sweet violets.