Out of the Wilderness

Walmart’s New Summer TV Ad – The Music, and more!

Whatever you’re doing in your house, the music in this ad might just make you drop it and come listen!

That’s what happened to me when I heard Little Richard “Get Down With It” playing as the soundtrack to this fun summer commercial. What a great song! Hearing it reminded me that I saw Little Richard once in the Nashville airport. He was shorter than I imagined. But it was cool to see him and an entourage.

Now I will provide links to many of the products you see in this ad.

Unicorn pool float – $37.99

Blue striped towel – $19.99 for similar beach towel

Shopping bags – $15.95 for pack of 3 (similar to bag in commercial)

Boys bathing suits – $17.92 for similar style

Orange hammock – $29.95

Steaks – $14.37 (in-store only)

Soccer Ball – $12.88

Tablet – under $150

Girl’s bicycle – $59.00

Pink dry erase helmet – $19.95

Camping tent – $34.97

Popsicles – $5.97 for 32-count (in-store only)

Women’s clothing – various prices

Water balloons – $17.84 for pack of 280

Sunglasses – $9.97

Ice cream cones – $2.33 for pack of 24

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-Out of the Wilderness

Robin Chicks… update #4

These chicks seem to be growing into full-size birds so fast. I had no idea they go from eggs to flying within weeks. Well, I’m jumping ahead of things a bit, they haven’t learned to fly yet BUT!! they are big now. Here are a few pics of the birds. This first pic was a few days ago. Second pic is one of the parents waiting to attack me. Last two are pics from this morning, see the difference in the last two from the first one? Lots of growing!

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-Out of the Wilderness

Baby geese struggle to follow parents out of pond

The highlight of my day yesterday was these newborn geese trying their hardest to climb up the steep bank of a pond. Their parents, blessed with fully functional wings, made it up but the six goslings had major issues.

I could try to explain it more but nothing would quite do the justice of what I witnessed. Thankfully, I hit record on my camera and captured it all on video. Check it out and I hope this helps make your day a bit more cheery, you silly goose.

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-Out of the Wilderness

The Music from Big Sky’s Season 1 Finale (air date 5/18/2021)

Big Sky is one of the best, if not THE best show on TV right now. This is thanks in part to the acting, of course, but how about the music? Songs always seem to be perfectly placed in the scenes. I’ve written about past episodes which you can check at the bottom of this post, but for now, let’s get to the music playing as the soundtrack of episode 16, the season 1 finale.

Kings of Leon “100,000 People” – This song plays very briefly underneath a conversation between Arthur/Ronald and his girlfriend Scarlet. My only complaint is that it was not enough of a great band. Check out the full track below.

Johnny Mathis “Chances Are” – This song plays while Ronald and agent Mark are talking in a jail/holding facility. Ronald is creepy, and I’ll leave it at that. Meanwhile, with the song still playing, Scarlet makes a mysterious phone call.

Heart “Crazy On You” – The final montage includes this song playing as the action and basically the tease for next season unfolds. No spoilers but part of the scene is Cassie walking with a high-powered rifle and I gotta say, yes, yes, and yes! In the words of another Heart song, Cassie is a “barracuda” you do NOT want to mess with.

To find out what music played in previous episodes, click on the links below.

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-Out of the Wilderness

Robin Chicks Growing So Fast!

Lately I’ve been writing about birds, and I’m very ok with that! Birds have been around for… what, like at least a decade right? But only recently have I been interested in them. It mostly came from when I started taking pictures of birds at a Florida beach. Check out a few photos of eagles, cormorants, woodpeckers, and more in either of these posts…

Land of the free, nothing but bald eagle photos

Birds of Paradise

More bird photos here, too!

Back here in Tennessee, though, it’s only been a few days since these robins hatched and their skin is already darkening. It amazes me how quickly they are looking more and more like the birds they will become. So if you’ve been following along, you know there were four eggs in the nest in front of my house, three eggs which have hatched and a lone blue egg still resting in the nest. My guess is it won’t hatch, sadly, but what happens to it remains to be seen. Sad news aside, here are a few recent pics, including the first photos of mom and dad! They were hovering (like any good protective parent?) above me right before they dive bombed me for interrupting their lives… again.