A Jumble

What a day! It's 16 degrees and I've been outside most of the day. With a big house and property spring is a very busy time. I have tons of trees and today I picked up any branches that had fallen over winter. They went to the campfire pile. I'll have get togethers this summer and a fire will top off the night. My kids and grandkids will be home this summer and I see a marshmallow toasting session like old times.

I planted the bulbs and echinacea that were dug out of my garden but had to extend them to another garden. I'm sure that is going to set back that end of the garden because most of the tulip leaves were broken. If the bulb has enough energy maybe it will send out a new set of leaves?

Music today is from Mary Gauthier from Louisiana. With our shared heritage we would have been related from 250 years ago. She is an absolutely fantastic songwriter of very personal songs after a traumatic childhood. The first link is her website and here's a Wiki article on her. These are a couple of her most popular songs, Mercy Now and I Drink. Here's A Different Kind of Gone that I uploaded in October.

I've heading back outside.

I have no idea why this big space is showing up. I've tried everything and can't get rid of it.

Keep Walking

Just returned from an hour and a half in the woods. It is twenty degrees and quite humid so it was a very hot and sweaty hike. A beer tastes good right now.

I just got a dinner invitation for tomorrow that I can't attend because of work. I think it was just yesterday I was talking of Sunday dinners. Oh, well. What can you do?

My daughter pointed out that the song I played for her yesterday was the link to Serena Ryder's website. I was obviously not paying close enough attention. I got her song from Page One and announced that all the songs were back. There is nothing further from the truth. Most are still missing. Not paying close enough attention.

I just finished listening to part of a concert on radio of Mary Gauthier. It was great. I'd seen her a few years back at the Stan Rogers Folk Festival and found out from the radio show that her biggest hit was written while attending that concert. I have only one song of hers on my hard drive and here it is, A Different Kind of Gone. Keep Walking by Emily McGuire is my other pick today because that's what I plan to do. Like listening to Mary Gauthier, it feels good. I love the lyrics of this. They fit to a tee.