Colusa Found

It’s going to be a short column today folks. I drove up to Colusa yesterday for the CBA FAll Campout and woke up early to write a short posting. This is my first campout, believe it or not and I wasn’t quite sure what we would discover. Yeah I get to use “we” as in me...

Come on up/down/over!

What a glorious bluegrass season 2019 has been. As we have for going on fifty years, the big CBA family is headed to Lodi this week to celebrate a great ending and a terrific beginning of non-stop bluegrass. Come for the music, the friends, the food and everything in...

Comfort Sounds

These are the sounds that greet me on Monday morning: “Grrrrr” trills the pack of raccoons that surround me as I go to get the morning paper off the driveway, eying me menacingly, snapping their fingers, but they did not attack. They seem to be rehearsing for a...

Coming to My Senses

I began my spring cleaning quite a few weeks back. As I was going through the house, room by room, sorting, editing, polishing and dusting, it occurred to me that I have an awful lot of stuff that has no earthly purpose but to sit on the shelf or hang on the wall to...

Coming to you Live! Adventures from Radio Land.

I was planning on going to the Fall campout this year, looking forward to it, waiting for it, anticipating it for the past 5 months. Instead of putting my camping gear in the shed after the Father’s Day Festival last June, I left it in the garage ready to load in the...

Commensurate Compensation

Hello from our little slice of heaven here on Whiskey Creek. Our local web site, mymotherlode.com, has promised us a very livable 96 degrees today and I’m feeling very thankful. 2010 has been far and away the coolest summer we’ve had here in Jamestown since we arrived...