by Christine | Oct 11, 2018 | Welcome Column
“Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.”Samuel Johnson, the famous British dictionary writer (or should I say, “noted lexicographer”) said that. Or maybe wrote it. In any case, I...
by Christine | Feb 14, 2020 | Welcome Column
I’d like to talk to you about fate and luck, although where one ends and the other begins is not too clear to me. I’ll begin with a few quotes about fate (or maybe luck) …quotes by people a bit smarter. “Once you make a decision, the Universe...
by Christine | Oct 21, 2014 | Welcome Column
The saying goes something like “better late than never”, and so I hope it works here as well. Please find below Lucy Smith’s report of the CBA suite in Raleigh, NC at the International Bluegrass Music Association convention. I got back from the CBA fall campout Sunday...
by Christine | Jan 30, 2009 | Welcome Column
A brief, (I swear) and curious tale. For months Lynn’s Dyson, her one true love besides me, had been whining a throaty yet high-pitched whine. I knew what it was but I couldn’t bring myself to tell her. The bearings were going, even a non-mechanic like me could tell...
by Christine | Mar 2, 2018 | Welcome Column
A reasonable thought for our troubled times…“Our nation will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedom, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” Abraham Lincoln.When you take some time to think about it there...
by Christine | May 24, 2012 | Welcome Column
Folks, we have close to four weeks until the gathering of the faithful, better known as a Father’s Day bluegrass Festival in grass Valley California. Now is the time to do maintenance on everything that you’re going to take with you for the festival....
by Christine | Apr 28, 2016 | Welcome Column
(Editor’s Note–Okay, we’re still waiting for a NEW Welcome column from the old mountain man; he earned his vacation the hard way…in the hospital…but time is running out. Since Grass Valley is just weeks away, we thought this helpful...
by Christine | Aug 31, 2012 | Welcome Column
A few years ago I got some software and started converting my old LPs into digital files. I was never a fanatical collector, but I’d accumulated something over a thousand since I’d started college. I was serious enough about it to keep them more or less in...
by Christine | Jul 17, 2013 | Welcome Column
Maybe you’ve noticed (or maybe you haven’t noticed) my absence in the past two Wednesdays. I went on a vacation to the UK for a couple of weeks – I assumed I’d be able to post “reports from the road” as it were, but my Chromebook’s charger didn’t play well with my...
by Christine | May 16, 2011 | Welcome Column
It’s sunny here at Whiskey Creek this morning. But it’s not going to last; storm advisory starting this afternoon and going until Wednesday. My friend Ken Reynolds says I should put on my big boy pants and deal with it. I suppose that’s good advice, but I don’t like...
