27th Street

Tomi Fujiyama…. how is it I’ve never heard her before?

Frank Fairfield and Meredith Axelrod (and Frank takes a question). I enjoy both these performers, and it’s fun to hear them together too. In this one they seem to have walked out of an old 78 recording.

Today, our first ever new fridge was delivered. When we bought the house at Blackthorn, they left a perfectly good fridge behind, which served us for the entirety of our time in that house. Then, when we sold Blackthorn and bought a house on Twenty… Read More

A couple Newfoundland tunes…. Daniel Payne on fiddle. Matthew Byrne on guitar. Aaron Collis on squeezebox.

The King.

This morning I saw the mitten-eating dog with its human at the dog park. The good news is the dog is fine – now. He was running around this morning, having a great time, looking for more mitts to steal. The fellow told me the… Read More

Here’s Mac Beattie and his Melodiers performing Train Wreck at Almonte. I love his Ottawa Valley story-songs.

I’ve been growing tomatoes in containers on a little fairly sunny strip of land out front – with mixed results – some years have been much better than others. This year, I cleared a patch of ground and planted my tomatoes in-ground, and they are… Read More