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Garden Update – Mo Bugs
Saturday I arrived to find the Cantaloupes, thriving and untouched by the bugs. Unfortunately the Squash and Zucchini I had tried to rescue were done for. I pulled their corpses from the ground and witnessed hundreds of June bugs emerge from under the straw and begin to scamper up the pepper plants. I considered what…
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Jazzy Plato – Finding the Groove
This was a fun night! My middle boy, on the keys, said it was not weird. That was the best compliment I could want. He said it was like any other artist he had played with. I had never considered the potential oddness for my children dealing with their daddy being just me.…
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Garden Update – Bugs
Just as I was entering the season of harvest I arrived to check on the garden and saw three of the Zucchini plants decimated and prostrate, yellow and brown and full of bugs. June bugs! Hundreds of them. I didn’t get any good pictures of the bugs because when I saw what was going on…
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Long Songs – Lynyrd Skynyard – Free Bird Live
This reminds me of high school, dirt roads and singing at the top of my lungs. I had this double album set. My buddy Fimnora Westcaw is writing about long songs. This is the longest I know and remember that it always felt too short back then. It made me smile to remember and see what everybody else is…