Hello Possums

Abject apologies for posting my column late. I actually got up early this morning focused on getting a storage shed built before the rains come this afternoon. Sometimes tunnel vision gets some things accomplished at the expense of others. But I did get the shed up...

Hello Possums

This week I’m just about all wrote out. I’ve been in the midst of what I call “grant writing hell” and have been oh so slowly, excruciatingly, painfully plodding along writing my sections of a large grant that will probably end up well over 200 pages. All the...

Hello Possums…

This week I’m just about all wrote out. I’m in the midst yet again of what I call “grant writing hell” and have been oh so slowly, excruciatingly, painfully plodding along writing yet another grant. I’m behind schedule, which means I’m not getting much sleep and...

Hello Possums…

(Editor’s Note–Loes van Schaijk, our European columnist, is still on vacation so we thought we’d dig way, way back to one of Geoff Sargent’s very first Welcomes…RC)This week I’m just about all wrote out. I’m in the midst yet again of what...

Hello stranger

Hello stranger, put your loving hand in mineHello stranger, put your loving hand in mineYou are a stranger, but you’re a pal of mineSometimes these lyrics just go on repeat in my head; to me they signify exactly what the bluegrass community is about....