by Christine | May 7, 2010 | Welcome Column
Item 1: Spring Camp Out: I made about 5 trips to the Turlock Spring camp out this past week. Since I live but a couple of miles away it was fun to check in on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. I was impressed with the number of RV’s, tents etc. I don’t know if there were...
by Christine | Apr 2, 2010 | Welcome Column
Item 1: Rub a dub dub, three men in a tub: Rick Cornish, fellow Hayward High School baseball team Gold Glove third baseman (1966), Lupe Ybarra, and I spent a week-end boating the San Joaquin Delta a few weeks ago. We were three lost souls who had never seen, let alone...
by Christine | Sep 3, 2010 | Welcome Column
Item 1: Isleton: What a difference a year makes. Last year it was hot and humid and the turnout was a bit sparse during the evening jams. This year the weather is beautiful and a full house of supporters listened for three plus hours to music on Thursday and Friday...
by Christine | Oct 4, 2010 | Welcome Column
(Editor’s Note—Brooks’ first-Friday column was more or less preempted by our struggles with the dreaded viral-bot last week so we’re running his ten items this morning. Mark Varner, who’s hopeful resting peacefully after one LONG week in Nashville, will be back next...
by Christine | Oct 1, 2010 | Welcome Column
Today’s column from Brooks Judd Friday, October 1, 2010 I had a dream the other night and in my dream I was writing the annual April 1 Welcome Column for the CBA and all the items, though they were “April Fool” worthy, were actually true. Here goes. Item 1: CBA...
by Christine | Mar 1, 2013 | Welcome Column
Item 1: On our front door hangs a neatly written sign that reads: “If you are a friend, neighbor, or relative, please knock or ring. If none of the above, please go away.”*** (Girl Scouts selling cookies and students selling chocolate bars for their schools of course...
by Christine | Jan 13, 2015 | Welcome Column
1 – “Hoard your energy” (Bob Dylan). Yes, I agree. Save it for all things bluegrass (festivals, jams, events, thoughts). 2 – The future is unknown, but the past is certain. Learn from your mistakes; Like not attending that bluegrass festival you missed last year, and...
by Christine | Jan 6, 2017 | Welcome Column
Thought for 2017 from Geoffrey Latham: “Music is the vernacular of the human soul.” “Bluegrass music. Ordinary people making extraordinary music.” Plato.For our CBA friends in Germany… Guter anfang ist halbe arbeit! So let us begin.Started out 2017 on New Years...
by Christine | Jul 7, 2017 | Welcome Column
It was March when a 50 cent washer forgot what it was supposed to do and dumped 500 gallons of hot water onto our brand new laminated floor, destroying base boards, sheet rock, closets, etc. After the call to the insurance...
by Christine | Oct 13, 2007 | Welcome Column
Where on any give day you’ll find ample quantities of the good, the bad and the ugly. Certainly enough to keep you going until tomorrow morning, when it all starts over again. Rain welcomed me home to Whiskey Creek last evening, but nothing but blue skies this...
