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All posts by “Eugene Knapik”
Johnny Ma Cabrille – Johnny Billygoat
A little mid-week party music – Johnny Ma Cabrille – Johnny Billygoat by Boozoo Chavis – just because I know you’re missing that steady flow of accordion music around this joint.
Red Prairie Dawn
Since I started learning to play clawhammer banjo, YouTube has been an incredibly handy tool. When I want to learn a tune, I like to listen to different versions of it, and fortunately there is a ton of Old Time music available. It’s hard to… Read More
Over the Waterfall?….
So there we were yesterday afternoon, fly fishing the upper Credit River, just a little ways below the former highway 24 (whatever they call that road now), when along come 2 guys each paddling a kayak. They each had a spinning rod ready to cast… Read More
On the River…
My neighbour’s son Ethan wants to learn fly fishing. I took him one day last year to the Grand River, and this spring I sent Ethan and family to a trout farm, where he caught his first trout on a fly. Today we went to… Read More
Upset stomach mushrooms
Somebody landed on this blog after searching “upset stomach mushrooms”, and this got me thinking that since a lot of would-be mushroom-hounds have been visiting this blog, I should make a few comments. I don’t know how many species of mushrooms there are in Ontario… Read More
St. Phillips
Here’s an older painting called St. Phillips I made back in the winter of 2001/2002. Tuffy P and I hiked in a forest near St. Phillips when we were in Newfoundland on our honeymoon in October of 2001. I did some charcoal drawings in that… Read More
Eureka! The Winking Newfie Dog
This pup has charm! GEORGIE!!Wonder Cat watching George from the staircase. Good morning from Long Branch! Sept 6 th 7:15 am
Good Morning Long Branch Sept 5th
Don’t let your deal go down….
From time to time, I just need to hear Doc Watson. Here he is playing Don’t let your Deal go Down, from 1991, with Kirk Sutphin on fiddle and Mike Seeger on banjo….
27th Street 