If you haven’t noticed music is important. Really. Around here it ranks with food, shelter and clothing. We take our vacations chasing it, we pass our time playing it, and in lieu of having a third child we adopted one genetically engineered for bluegrass instead. Weird ain’t it? Our two boys have adapted to our weirdness by scrounging [...]
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The weather has just been great here. Overcast, cloudy and cool, my favorite kind. Aunt Sissy been reading the Farmer’s Almanac again, and said this winter is supposed to be really cold and wet. So Ben decided we needed to have a jam before all our favorite local pickers are holed up by the fire [...]
It’s funny. I thought we were done. I’ve told you before about our conversation before we were married about children and staying home with them, here. I said ”If we have one, we’ll have two. After that, it’s negotiable.” Only Ben forgot to negotiate. Well, kinda. He had been talking about the need to add to our herd [...]
Whew! I just got back from twisting off and going MIA. Ben’s parents took the boys for a week while his band played a bluegrass festival and three fairs. It was fun to be on the road, touring. Touring? Touring! I think that’s the right word. Somehow when I think of touring…I don’t think of driving our old Tahoe and pulling a [...]
