100 Wooden Benches

There are one hundred of them. One hundred wooden park benches. One hundred wooden benches at the Colusa County Fairgrounds. You know, where the 2009 Fall CBA Campout happened this past October. The benches are not just randomly scattered around the grounds. Many of...

12 Days Until Spring

I was born on the first day of Spring. Although the yearly reminder of my accumulating age is the last thing that pleases me, the coming of Spring always does. Yes, I actually saw a robin pulling a worm from the ground the other morning. A hummingbird has come back....

12 Months Later

It has been exactly a year since this old guy took up music for the first time in his 66 years. It is time for a recap. The last twelve months have contained experiences beyond my wildest dreams. I play a guitar daily, jam often, attend every music event possible,...

19 days left until Feb 16th

This year something great is going to happen at my house. It?s something I?ve been waiting for since I started working?I?m going to retire. For the last 27 years I have been a fireman. I can not begin to count the number of smoky mountains I?ve climbed, times I?ve...

1970: My First Banjo Christmas

It was Christmas 1970 and, even though my eight track tape player was constantly playing George Harrison’s All Things Must Pass and John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band that holiday season, I had somehow decided that I wanted a banjo. Seeing Roy Clark on Hee Haw had put it in...