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Limitless potential

Posted on January 24, 2025

A few snaps of the past few days – When I texted my brother-in-law this photo, his response was, “Limitless potential.” That’s about perfect. This is the new entry way to our house. Instead of two cracked glass windows held together by essentially stucco walls and a floor full of spiders and what not, now there’s a new door, benches, a new window and drawers for hiding shoes. More room, lit up and insulated and just lovely. When you walk through the door, this is the view: hooks for jackets, a small set of cabinet drawers for gloves and caps, and a shoe-changing bench. I’ll have more complete photos showing the whole deal, before and after, which started last August. It includes a new…

Sunday afternoon with Daniel & Jerri

Posted on January 19, 2025

I spent this afternoon up in Corvallis at my friends Daniel and Jerri’s place having a meal and playing some guitar and just catching up on things. I’ve known these fine folks since the early 90s when I received a phone call at work from Daniel letting me know that he heard I was “into” Bruce Cockburn, the Canadian singer/songwriter and musician. Which was true and still is! Daniel and I started hanging out and playing guitars together and today was one of those days, though, to be fair we had let too much time pass before this day. We’ll get together again sooner rather than later, that much was agreed upon. Daniel runs the excellent website, “Gavin’s Woodpile,” which shares news and notes…

It’s beginning to look a lot like . . . .

Posted on December 19, 2024

Sunday was tree day! Normally we get our tree the weekend after Nora’s birthday, but last weekend our living space was smothered in a gentle covering of dry wall dust from the interior work being done, so we put it off one week. Photos below. Some butts as we (I) cut down “Little Plumpy” as it was named by Nora. It took 30 (!) minutes to cut down. Fortunately the haulers were exceptional in their efforts. Hilarity ensued as we cut the bailing string. it was too funny. 🙂 The tree top being placed on by Santa. It was a purchase from the Dollar General store when we lived in Floyd, Virginia in 2005. Still have it and it still works. And yes, it…

Nature of Gratitude

Posted on November 25, 2024

My friend Tom and his friend Eric started hosting a two hour event called the Nature of Gratitude which includes poetry reading, prose reading, music and a theme. This year’s theme was actually “Gratitude,” and the event was last weekend. It was lovely, of course. Always is . . . . It was a packed house! I took some time to go to the used instrument store this past weekend to look at guitars. While there I saw two Dusty Strings folk harps (not pictured), which is where I worked for several years after college in the late 80s and early 90s. Mostly I worked on the hammered dulcimer side of things, doing “post-production” work which involved stringing, tuning and test playing before they…

Cemetery & remodel

Posted on November 17, 2024

I stopped by the cemetery in Vancouver, Washington where my grandparents are buried last week while on my drive home. Fortunately my sister had dropped a pin in Google Maps so it wasn’t too hard to find. I have not been here since my grandmother died in 1982. It was both strange and good to stop by. I was flooded with memories of her in my life – a solid presence for me. The summer of 1980, after the eruption of Mt. St. Helens, she drove me as close to the mountain as we could get at the time. It was really a great day with her and I was amazed at the mud-line on the trees along the Toutle River. Plus she listened…