Country Fried

June 24, 2010

I’m listening to country music and my brain is fried. I’m in a pickle, and I could use some suggestions. My husband and I have been asked to put together the music for a “western” themed party (it’s for the rehearsal dinner at our son’s wedding) and we are stumped. There are two reasons why [...]

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Ann Armstrong Is A “Steam-Powered Nightingale”

May 15, 2010

Dallas is the home to many fine musicians, but none steal my heart away in the manner of Ann Armstrong and her husband, Steve Hughes. I’ve known these fine folks for more than two decades, and they never fail to bring me to my feet in joyous appreciation when I attend a concert. Their music [...]

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Sure It Can Play, But Can It Sing?

January 24, 2010

Have I told you that my husband is a musician? Well, he is an engineer for a living, but he plays music in his spare time. He can play darned near any musical instrument that you can imagine except drums. The only reason that he doesn’t play drums is that we don’t have a set [...]

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An Organ for your Pocket

January 11, 2010

I have to tell y’all that when I met my husband he had three organs! As I became more organized, I made sure he became less so. I made him get rid of two of them. But, my husband’s remaining organ weighs 300 pounds and has to be moved with a dolly. Do whut??? Ohhhh [...]

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Scaring Ourselves Silly in San Antonio

October 27, 2009

The Menger Hotel in downtown San Antonio is our destination this Friday night. I did tell you it is haunted, didn’t I? My friend Judy and I are getting excited! We have our room booked (we are going to share a room, because we are a couple of scaredy cats) AND we are scheduled to [...]

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Junior Brown Is Coming To Town

September 16, 2009

There are two words I have for you this morning, my friends: Junior Brown. Now I could only tell you those words after I knew that my Sweet Spousal Unit had bought tickets to see him at the Granada Theater in Dallas on October 2nd. You don’t really think I’d let you get my seat [...]

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Ghost Hunt at The Driskill Hotel. Part 1.

August 11, 2009

They told me our room was a “haunted room.” Supposedly the Driskill Hotel has a lot of ghosts walking its hallways. We went to Austin, Texas to try to see one. Actually, we went to see the bat colony take flight from under the Congress Avenue Bridge, but staying at the Driskill was an added [...]

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Uncle Walt’s Band. I Thought They Would Always Be There.

July 22, 2009

My high school friend suggested that we go to hear a concert. It must have been about 1975 or 1976. She said, “I want you to hear Uncle Walt’s Band.” I had no idea her uncle was a musician, but I had grown up hearing my Daddy and his friend E.W. picking on their mandolins [...]

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Excuses?

July 3, 2009

On a hot, lazy Sunday afternoon, I plopped on the bed to watch television. I would have liked to exercise, because I’m carrying ten pounds that I want to lose. But, it was too darned hot to move (in the winter, my excuse is that it’s too cold). Although I wanted to work on organizing [...]

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It’s Your Choice. Only The Good Friday.

June 12, 2009

For Only The Good Friday, I’m working on some “affirmations.” It didn’t start out as a good, day–so I’m having to work at reminding myself. That’s the point of this “optimism virus” that I’m trying to spread on the internet. Staying positive and being optimistic is not a natural trait for all of us. We [...]

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The Knack

May 14, 2009

I’m sorry. This Dilbert video is a little bit of “engineering humor. If you don’t get it, that’s OK. Mr. Tucker gets it, because he’s got it … “the Knack,” that is. If you don’t live with an engineer, you don’t understand this at all. I’m not sure that I always do. I asked Mr. [...]

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Fly Away

May 3, 2009

The entire bird population at my house has me about ready to pull out my meticulously dyed red hair. I don’t see how in the world birds, as a species, survive, because they are dadgum stupid! Some days, I wish they would all just fly away. I told y’all about a pair of mourning doves [...]

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Perfectly Good Guitars

April 22, 2009

Last weekend was the Dallas International Guitar Festival, and that is how we celebrated our anniversary. Mr. Tucker is crazy about guitars and guitar shows, and I like them well enough. I made him take me out to eat to compensate me for my time. I also held his wallet, so he didn’t buy another [...]

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BACON Camp? In San Francisco!

March 19, 2009

Did anybody win the lottery last night? Does anybody want to sponsor me? I NEED FUNDING NOW! Somebody help me out here. Nobody told me there is a “Bacon Camp” in San Francisco! As if I needed another reason to want to go to San Francisco! YES! And, it’s coming up this week, March 21st. [...]

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“Pink Floyd Meets A White Christmas”

December 24, 2008

That’s how Diane Sawyer described the Trans-Siberian Orchestra a couple of years ago. It’s the only music keeping me sane as I get ready for the onslaught of the holiday guests. I don’t listen to much traditional holiday music, but I like this. Listening to this, I don’t even care that the cats knocked over [...]

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Dona Nobis Pacem

June 4, 2008

Today across the blogosphere, we are blogging for peace. This song by Nanci Griffith says all I have to say, but she says it better. Click it to play, close your eyes and enjoy. I wish you peace.

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Mama Said Not To Play With Your Food

March 31, 2008

So I didn’t grow up to play music with the Vienna Vegetable Orchestra. That’s what I said, “vegetable.” This video starts slowly, as the musicians choose their “instruments” at the market and then prepare them for playing. A carrot becomes a recorder, eggplants become clappers, a leek is a violin, and squash become percussion instruments. [...]

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Yes, We Can Can

March 10, 2008

The first time I saw the Pointer Sisters on television, I thought, “What an unfortunate choice of clothing!” Those gals were dressed in 1940s garb, which wasn’t very stylish back in the 1970s. Heck, it probably wasn’t “stylish” in the 1940s! It looked like something out of my Aunt LaVerta’s closet that she donated to [...]

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Rock On!

January 5, 2008

Y’all have probably already seen this, because it said in my AARP Bulletin from August (I’m finally getting around to reading it) that they are a cult hit on YouTube. This is The Zimmers, who are a group of 40 “Old Age Pensioners.” This British group certainly challenges any pre-conceived notions about old age! Alf, [...]

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For the Moms (and anyone who ever had one)

September 27, 2007

My friend Connie sent me the link to this in an e-mail, and I thought it was hilarious so I had share it with you. The performer says she figured out what a Mom would say in a 24 hour period and condensed it into 2 minutes and 55 seconds. She sings it to the [...]

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