Some of you will recall the word ‘dream’ floating about in our garden. We found a new word on a stick yesterday when we visited Nice Old Stuff in Jarvis. Can you find the two words in the garden?
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A little Friday adventure
Both Tuffy P and I had the day off work to day, so we decided to take a drive out to Jarvis Ontario (past Hagersville and before Port Dover) to visit our favourite place to find nice old stuff for the house and garden, a… Read More
I owe my soul to the company store…..
It’s about time I posted some Uke music around this joint. Here’s Manitoba Hal tearing up Merle Travis’ Sixteen Tons via Tennessee Ernie Ford…
The Lions of 27th Street
That’s Bruce, King of the Jungle, chillin’ on the polka dot bench…. And here are two shots of Jack Shadbolt, the cat not the late Canadian painter.
Out of the blue
Back in the 50s a young country singer named Cast King, with his band The Country Drifters, recorded a number of sides on Sun Records, but never made a huge splash. In fact I would not have heard his music at all if not for… Read More
Weird mushroom in the back yard
We have a long backyard with a wooded section at the back. I was out there stopping the woods from taking over the yard when I noticed some strange fungi beside an old maple stump. I happen to know this weird item. It’s Xylaria polymorpha,… Read More
Summer Days
Well, summer has arrived. I mostly missed spring this year, more or less couped up and healing my messed up ankle. In the last couple weeks I’ve been getting out into the garden, and yesterday I did my first bit of garden work. We have… Read More
Indian Cowboy
Let’s head down to Texas. Here’s Joe Ely performing Indian Cowboy.
Lions of 27th Street
That’s Shadow above…. AKA The Old Man And Gracie…. Because the internet is all about cat pictures, right?
The Goodnight Loving Trail
That is Finest Kind performing The Goodnight Loving Trail by U. Utah Phillips. It’s introduced by the late Utah Phillips himself on the second episode of his radio show, which was called Loafer’s Glory. The Goodnight Loving Trail is a cowboy song. It refers to… Read More