The dogs and I met up with Salvelinas for a few hours in the woods today. We were hoping to find some black morels or maybe even stumble into some ramps. Unfortunately we found neither, but we did find a mess of fiddleheads.
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East Texas Red
This one goes out to my good friend of the same name. He’s a really good guy, not like the East Texas Red you’re going to hear about today. The song is by Woody Guthrie. East Texas Red was a railroad bull, the meanest one around. He was no friend to the hobo, that’s for sure. This is a revenge song. The threat to Red is that he’s going to ride that little black train one year from today. When you ride that train you better have your business straight, if you know what I mean. This song has a moral, and that is, if you’re so cold-hearted that you step on the down-trodden, you’re going to get yours down the road, and it’s not going to be pretty.
Here’s a fine version I found on YouTube by Mr. ISI. Nice job, Mister.
And another nice version by Dixiesguitar
Elliot’s New Squeezebox
Here’s my student, Elliot, trying out his new button accordion. It has a lovely sound with three voices on the treble side. Elliot’s working hard at it and I’m very pleased with his progress so far.
Unbearable cuteness alert…
My sister and her husband have foxes living on their property…she sent me this pic tonight
The Veggie Patch
This garden is built on a piece of land that once had a big apple tree on it. You can see the remains of the stump in the top left. I raised it up and added landscape cloth to create a veggie garden environment separate from the tangle of roots that will rot away in the coming years. I’ve planted onions and shallots and spinach and radishes and swiss chard and carrots and some herbs and things are starting to come up. To give you an idea of scale, the garden is 8 feet long and at it’s widest point, 5 feet wide, so it’s modest, but I think we’ll still enjoy plenty from it this year. I’m going to try to grow some tomatoes in containers too, in another spot in the yard. I think the sunlight I get is marginal for tomatoes but I have some plants from my most excellent neighbour across the street and I’m going to give them a try and see what happens. I didn’t think I had enough sun for sunflowers out front last year, but Tuffy P planted them anyway and they turned out to be spectacular.
The King of them All?
The Streamlined Cannonball (your train song of the day)….
That was Doc Watson of course. Here’s Chet Atkins, playing it slow and lazy…
Here’s Leroy Troy. I like his version very much…
Note to Salvelinas
It’s not true. Dog’s can’t really talk. It is funny though.
Take the A Train
Today’s train song of the day is the very stylish Take the A Train, featuring Duke Ellington’s group from the film Reveille with Beverly, 1943.
Here’s Dave Brubeck’s version from 1966, and it’s a whole different trip.
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One of the best things….
…about having two giant goofy Newfoundland dogs at home, is that no matter what my day is like, they’re waiting at the door when I get home, tails a-wagging.
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