Hokey-crokey/pokey Hummer

Hokey-cokey/Hoky-pokey

United States style of dance
The dance follows the instructions given in the lyrics of the song, which may be prompted by a bandleader, a participant, or a recording. A sample instruction set would be:
(Hummingbird style of course)
You put your [left wing] in,
You put your [left wing] out;
You put your [left wing] in,
And you shake it all about.
You do the hokey pokey,
And you turn yourself around.
That's what it's all about!

Participants stand in a circle. On "in" they put the appropriate body part in the circle, and on "out" they put it out of the circle. On "And you shake it all about", the body part is shaken three times (on "shake", "all", and "-bout", respectively). Throughout "You do the hokey pokey, / And you turn yourself around", the participants spin in a complete circle with the arms raised at 90° angles and the index fingers pointed up, shaking their arms up and down and their hips side to side seven times (on "do", "hoke-", "poke-", "and", "turn", "-self", and "-round" respectively). For the final "That's what it's all about", the participants clap with their hands out once on "that's" and "what" each, clap under the knee with the leg lifted up on "all", clap behind the back on "a-", and finally one more clap with the arms out on "-bout".

The body parts usually included are, in order, "right leg", "left leg", "right arm", "left arm", "head", "backside", and "whole self"; the body parts "right elbow", "left elbow", "right hip", and "left hip" are often included as well.

The final verse goes:

You do the hokey pokey,
The hokey pokey,
The hokey pokey.
That's what it's all about!

On each "pokey", the participants again raise the arms at 90° angles with the index fingers pointed up, shaking their arms up and down and their hips side to side five times.

For the Record,
This day came in sunny and pleasant but quickly turned dark, with heavy thunder and rain. I've spent some hilarious moments on the phone with G. He relating some of the familiar funny things that can happen when one is in a country where you don't speak the language. We can't believe we'll be seeing each other on Friday. It's raining there as well, but looked like I it might clear...not so here. This grainy shot is through the door as Sharpie stayed out of the rain under the outside light on his feeder wire.

We have the cable folks coming out late this afternoon to see why we keep having outages. Funny they stopped happening once T called last Friday...

I'm packed but rethinking somethings because I found out there is no wireless at the summerhouse, foiling my plans. We might buy a data plan so T and I can stay in touch and I could blip from my iPhone via email. My plan was to download to my iPad and have Nikon or p&s Leica shots to choose from for blip. I might just end up losing my no gaps run and backblip..