The book box sits outside our place on lower 27th Street in Long Branch Ontario. It’s the house with the canoe garden and the giant mosaic owl. Ya can’t miss it. The book box is now featuring an excellent selection of titles… Check out Deadwood… Read More
Old City Hall is the first of four novels by Robert Rotenberg featuring the character Detective Ari Green, along with a few other recurring characters. I gobbled them up in more or less reverse order. Like the others, this was a highly readable mystery with… Read More
I made this up as I went along today…. First, I grilled half a dozen cobs of corn on the bbq (yes, a charcoal one) along with some red shepherd’s peppers and a chunk of kielbasa (I used a 6 inch chunk of Goralska from… Read More
It’s about time I posted some Quebec accordion music around this joint…
We just installed the 27th St. Book Box. Raw materials are (mostly) from Nice Old Stuff in Jarvis Ontario. The book box is always open. Take a book. Enjoy it. Keep it or return it. Drop off a book anytime. It’s our own lower 27th… Read More
I’m learning this tune on banjo now, so I’ve been listening to various performances of it….let’s start with Heat Box And Dan Levenson… Here’s Mark Gilston playing it on mountain dulcimer… Finally, Mr. Nonouke with a uke version
I can remember as a little kid watching Harry Hibbs’ At the Caribou show on channel 11. That must have been my first exposure to button accordion. Here’s a sample I found on the YouTube – Harbour Grace and Golden Slipper.
For years we lived in a neighbourhood with few birds. This sure changed when we moved down to Long Branch a few years ago. Sam Smith Park, just down the street, is well known as a migration trap, a respite for migrating birds coming north… Read More
We visited Port Dover today, just for fun – had lunch there, wandered around, and then visited an antique shop in Jarvis Ontario on the way back.
27th Street 