Happy birthday to D1 today, July 3. I guess I’ll skip her age, you all know anyway. We had been married almost a year when she was born. Here she is at about three. Not sure if this was before or after her birthday in 1973.
Like father, like daughter. They are both engineers now, but she’s the one that’s civil.
Have a wonderful day!
We had a wonderful day yesterday at the Red, White and Bluegrass Festival here in Morganton. It was a big crowd for a Wednesday, and a super line-up. I especially enjoyed seeing Heather Berry, Junior Sisk, and the SteelDrivers; none of whom will be appearing at Michigan festivals we will attend this summer.
Heather Berry and Tony Mabe aren’t a bluegrass act, but knew they were at a bluegrass festival. Tony pulled out the banjo for a lot of their set. He is proficient on many instruments, I saw an arch top guitar, autoharp, and banjo. Heather has the voice of a songbird. I enjoyed seeing them.
The SteelDrivers were amazing. Chris Stapleton can write ‘em and sing ‘em. They call their music “uneasy listening”, and I agree. But it was a fabulous trip!
Junior is bluegrass, and how. Saw him last summer, but spent most of that day attending to GD1, GD2 and GS3, so missed a lot of the show. I saw all of their show yesterday, and enjoyed every minute.
Three more big days here, come on over if you are in the neighborhood.
I have a few garden photos, I find it interesting to compare the photos and see the progress.
This one is from 6-20-09, you can see the zucchini is struggling, but the broccoli and cabbage are happy. The vining veggie to the right is spaghetti squash that D3 wanted to grow.
Here is the same area on 6-29-09, nine days later. Thank goodness we got a little rain.
We were over at the Charlotte (Michigan) bluegrass festival last weekend. We had fun. Papa took pictures, and a little video. This one is of our friends playing the song we really like to hear.
Red, on banjo, was happier with this version, he said he “Didn’t miss that one part.”. Huh? I wouldn’t have noticed that. What I do like is this one has bass and mandolin. The previously posted version had only guitar and banjo.
So, here are Red Martin, R.J. Thomas, Ralph Paige, Jimmy Kittle and Billy Irvine for your listening pleasure.
There are 500+ photos of our weekend at Charlotte, you can see them on Papa’s site.
D1 calls this synchronized sitting, what do you think? I’ll give them a 9.99.
After they noticed me taking the photo, they turned to look at me.
Well, one is looking up more than the other.
It was soon time for dinner, guess what?:
There you have it, the very different cats, doing the same thing at the same time. (Ignore the bottle behind my sewing machine. I’ll pick it up someday.)
We’re off the Charlotte, Michigan for the Bluegrass festival. Come on over, the line-up is great, and so is the weather!
It looks like school is out nearly everywhere. There are more kids around, playing, running, and acting like kids. Unfortunately, even the best of us adults are distracted sometimes. Mitchell Butler died last fall, and I wrote about it here.
Papa brought a few of these home last week, and I thought it was work mentioning.
Please watch carefully as you drive. I have found that a car can hide behind the post between the windshield and side window of my van. There are some big blind spots out there, and kids are little.
Thank you.
Please excuse my absence from the blog while I beat my head against the wall. And take a sludge hammer to my computer.
Back soon.
Did I mention we’re having a garage sale tomorrow?
Check out my ad for directions and items.
Papa’s lawn ornaments are especially cute, and Dad’s love ‘em, good last minute gift.
Papa and I ventured a little south of here to see Russell Moore and IIIrd Tyme out at the Glass City Opry Tuesday. My favorite of Papa’s photos happens to be of Edgar. You all know he’s a Daddy (again), don’t you?
The guys did their usual great show, and we are now proud owners of the new CD.
The balance of Papa’s pictures from the evening are on his site.
Papa and I made a quick trip to East Tennessee for the Dumplin’ Valley June Fest. We made the trip to see some bands that we won’t see around here this summer, including Balsam Range, Larry Cordle, the Gibson Brothers and the Rangers. Some of the bands which appeared that we will see other places this summer, but duplication isn’t a problem for us, especially for bands we enjoy.
Papa and I elected to stay in a hotel, mostly because we had never visited the site, and had some free nights we could use. As it turned out, that may have been a good choice, there was quite a bit of rain, including some thunder showers during the festival. We would have taken a tent, so we were feeling fortunate about our choice. The rain did not put a damper on the event, since the stage is in a barn, and tents are provided for those who sit outside the enclosure.
The campground is very nice, including restrooms and showers. We won’t hesitate to take a tent, to this venue in the future. A lot of attention was given to the grounds, and everything was spotless.
I usually post my favorite picture here, and today will be no exception. This one was easy, and it is one you won’t see it in the gallery. Here are Jerry Butler and his daughter Sami. Jerry has recorded a new CD with John Wade, which will be out soon. Sami had a line in a song called “Daddy’s Girl” on the CD, and she got to go down to Nashville to record it
She actually came out on stage and spoke the line when the band sang the song.
Well, Tami brought her out. But Sami did her part, and did it well. She was rightfully quite pleased with herself.
You can see the more from Dumplin Valley on Papa’s site.
