Making a mini-garage under the big damn deck
Doing some tweaking of last summer’s big damn deck project: sealing in the end to make a 10×10 mini-garage. I wrapped the west and south sides of the deck posts...
View ArticleFlooring the big room
My calendar indicates this is another red-letter day, but this time it doesn’t involve a guitar. It was just about a year ago that I was wrapping up the installation of the oak...
View ArticleThe Big Damn Deck project
The Big Damn Deck Deck project – Phase Two A retrospective Oct 3, 2016 – Wifey supreme Rhonda Haggard Foster poses nonchalantly with her impact driver and psychedelic mud...
View ArticleWhy I’m supporting SGT Report via Patreon
I now directly support SGT Report via Patreon, gifting them a small amount of cash each month to help support their endeavors. It’s a small enough contribution that I’ll never...
View ArticleWine-down Wednesday Milestone
April 12, 2017 Dear friends in Brown County, it looks to be an excellent evening (and an auspicious one, read more below) for Wine-down Wednesday at the Hobnob Corner Restaurant....
View ArticleMemories Of Zagreb/Adriatic Dreams video
I’m a big fan of YouTube, spending some quality time on there every day streaming a wide range of channels. Some time ago I decided to get more involved in video production, and one...
View ArticleHidden Secrets Of Money series by Mike Maloney – YouTube
Mike Maloney’s ongoing series — more episodes coming, so check back. IMHO, this series is required viewing if one wants to understand the economic conditions of today:
View ArticleHow shantyboats helped build a culture – YouTube
This video by Kirsten Dirksen kinda takes me back to the old days… you know, back when I was much newer. Dad was a true river rat. Loved boats and the river...
View ArticleCinco de Maya 2017
Had a ambivalent experience at our Cinco de Mayo dinner with wifey and the grandkids at El Ranchero in Ellettsville last evening. The place was packed, of course, and we...
View ArticleSteemit: the Facebook killer? We can only hope
Online in recent months, we’ve been seeing a concerted Orwellian effort to censor, shape and select what the powers-that-be would define as “appropriate content”. Not so much appropriate in terms...
View ArticleMason Williams & Friends LIVE feat Jeff Foster
Since Aug 2, 1993, an aging VHS video has been safely ensconced in my library. What makes the video special to me is that it documents the realization of a...
View ArticlePersonal thoughts (and an interview with Alice Cooper) on the passing of Glen...
I was very saddened (yet relieved) to hear of Glen Campbell’s passing. I owe a great deal of my musical development as a young player to Glen, an astoundingly versatile...
View ArticleOn Getting Older
A guitar-slinging friend of mine, Tj Jones, posted a humorous thread on the blue scourge of the internet (Facebook) about discovering he was on the cusp of being considered “elderly”:...
View ArticleSam Takes A Dive
You just have to admire my friend Sam Collins. At an age when most widowers would be content watching the tube and taking it easy, Sam instead decided to jump...
View ArticleDisagreeing more agreeably
It sure would be refreshing if people could disagree online a little more agreeably. Ad hominem attacks can be so easily typed from behind the relative anonymity of a computer...
View ArticleBut what about Old Glory, damn it!
We hear rumors these days of the great State of California breaking up into smaller states. Everything from 2 to 6 smaller states have been suggested at one time or...
View ArticleMore gun ban yada yada
I have yet to learn whether the Texas church shooter was on psychotropic medications (anyone wanna lay odds?), but he *was* apparently an atheist with a long history of domestic...
View Article“A Boy They Call Lonesome” by Sam Collins
My buddy Sam Collins is back with another tune from the Millennium Sessions, written for Sam in the early 60s by Nashville TN country music artist, Jimmie Skinner. As Sam puts...
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