I decided to create a Pinterest board for the mosaics Tuffy P and I do. At this point we’ve made several of them, mostly birds, and I wanted to group some photos in one spot in case anybody wanted to see the work. Until we… Read More
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Happy Birthday Tuffy P!
To celebrate Tuffy’s birthday we enjoyed dinner at Longrain Pan Asian, a neighbourhood place here in Long Branch that we’ve visited a couple times. We like to support the local businesses and tonight the Lakeshore was pretty snowy and slippery so we didn’t want to… Read More
Cold Frosty Morning
There seems to be various old time tunes called Cold Frosty Morning or Frosty Morning or Frosty Morn or some variation. In Toronto this morning it was so cold my thoughts were freezing as they bubbled out of my brain. It was the kind of… Read More
Flirting with Mermaids
My friend Barb, who among other things blogs as Bad Tempered Zombie, introduced me to the recording Flirting with Mermaids by Manitoba Hal. She did this in the best possible way – she mailed me the CD! Barb knows I like all kinds of roots… Read More
Delia’s Gone
Delia was a gamblin’ girl She gambled all around. Delia was a gamblin girl She laid her money down. All the friends I ever had are gone. I’m not sure what I was thinking back in 1993 when I named that pudgy little kitten Delia… Read More
Blue Jay
The only thing left to do on the mosaic blue jay is screw in some hanging hardware, and where that goes depends on the angle at which it’s going to hang.
Fishin’ Line
I happened on some bargain fishin’ line in my travels today, which I bought because I wanted to try it out as strings for the oil can banjo. Sure you can buy the fancy Nylgut synthetic strings that imitate the colour and feel and sound… Read More
Barlow Knife
Continuing our exploration of old time banjo and fiddle music, let’s look at a song called Barlow Knife. A Barlow knife is a style of folding pocket knife, invented in the UK and popularized in North America in the 18th and 19th centuries. Tom Sawyer… Read More
Soup Saturday
Since late fall, most Saturdays have been Soup Saturdays around here. I’ve been making all kinds of different hearty and delicious soups. Today’s soup was green pea. Here’s how I made it. I had a piece of bbq bacon from Starsky’s so I sliced it… Read More
A most interesting bit of television history
I was surfing around the YouTube machine, and this video popped up amidst the usual folky-ka-dolky music I like to listen to. It features Frank Zappa on the Steve Allen Show in 1963, and the gig was Frank playing the bicycle along with Steve Allen… Read More
27th Street 