1. I'm about a third of the way into Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell . How I missed this one until now, I have n...

1. How do people travel all the time and still manage a normal life? I went on one five day trip from June 27th to July 2nd, and I'm *s...

This is the one and only photo I took: my scribbling and caffeination supplies for a morning of jotting down memories. I spent Feb 27-Mar...

Starting a new Field Notes this weekend for my daily doings log. This will be an important one, since Wintergrass , the big indoor bluegrass...

Our Saturday to Sunday snow storm left me a bit buried... The walking project continues apace (har har). I will need to fit in a few short e...

Yet another busy, fall-flavored weekend! To start with, Saturday morning I went over to the farm stand for more pumpkins and apples. Thoug...

A rose I drew awhile back, and almost immediately hid from public  view,  because it's...shoddy. But you know? Shoddy is OK. Th...

Yes, it's grubby...but alive! When I started playing at the Wednesday night Irish session, I picked up a copy of their tune book....

I planted some pretty flowers and they're not dead yet! See? Blithering, as promised! For the last few months, I've felt like ...

This week's passel o' links I found entertaining or of interest: ► The oldest recorded melody? I find this one particularly fasci...

I could mention that I did *try* to do a typecast version of the index card note, since you're likely getting sick of trying to deci...

Reason #1 I haven't been blogging: I've been obsessively practicing mandolin and learning new tunes.  Tunes I've learned since t...

I wear a hat to bed in the winter, and use a sleeping bag as a comforter.  This lets me turn the heat down at night, thus saving money for m...

Halvah taking advantage of a momentary break... I am officially throwing in the towel for NaNoWriMo 2011, at least as far as hitting 5...

Musical things I did this week:  1. Went to two concerts: one jazz/swing, with Paul Anastasio, an excellent fiddler (he played with Aslee...

I think I'm going to start putting these music posts up on occasion--not normally this frequently, but now and again--primarily as a mea...

At the type-in , the subject of playing music came up, and someone (Justin?) asked me if I played with a band.  I answered (tongue in cheek)...

So...for practice purposes, to show the others how these tunes string together, I recorded a very quick-and-dirty version of the set of tune...