Baked knockwurst and potatoes.

Daily grist.  After losing my youngest son and my oldest daughter at ages 27 and 46 respectively who most important lesson in life I learned is this. Never sweat the small stuff. It is all small stuff.   JDRhynes I know you’re probably asking...

Bakersfield of Dreams

A tumbleweed blows across Buck Owens Blvd… Lonely oil pumping stations creak and squeak in vacant lots and front yards …. A broken guitar string lies in a parking lot next to some cigarette butts… Oh, it’s quiet now, but soon this “little” town...

Bakersfield Revisited

Good morning from Whiskey Creek, where the peace, tranquility and domestic bliss of our little mountain retreat has been shattered by the arrival last Thursday of the dreaded C-PAP (continuous positive airway pressure) Machine to address the recently diagnosed acute...

Band Musical Chairs

It’s December again and bands are playing musical chairs. In high profile changes, Joey Cox and Carl White have left Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver. Dan Tyminski, Barry Bales, and Ron Block have returned to Alison Kraus, decimating The Dan Tyminski Band...