Tuners

Recently I had a major tuner crisis. My last Intellitouch PT-10 just stopped functioning. It wasn’t a battery problem. It just wouldn’t turn on at all. I used to have four of them a couple of months back but all of them self destructed or just plain disappeared....

TURKEY TROT (OR THE ATTACK OF THE KILLER TOM)

On the year of my twelfth Thanksgiving I lived the rural life on a large and wild chunk of property in the Sierra foothills. We lived atop a huge meadow which was completely surrounded by mixed conifer forest. Our ranch lay at the end of a two-mile patchwork of forest...

Turlock in the springtime

Dear friends, The campout was cooooooool. The weather was not – it was perfect. Man, the only thing I don’t like about Turlock is the noise. Yeah, I know, I’m supposed to love trains, being a country goober, and I kind of do. But there’s a limit and those things...

Turlock O Turlock

Gateway to the Central Valley and gateway to the summer, for bluegrass fans in California. The CBA has held their spring campout here at the Stanislaus County Fairgrounds for quite a few years running now. It’s fairly centrally located, especially for folks living...

Turn turn turn

(EDITOR’S NOTE–Last Friday we in inadvertently posted Cliff’s Welcome column and omitted the first paragraph.  To remedy the situation we’ve re-posting the entire article this morning.  RC)Pete Seeger wrote a song some years back,...