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heading home: day 8
Friday, 6:30 AM: woken by fiddlers heading to the lake to serenade the sunrise 8:00: breakfast, last meal of the meal plan <sob> 9:00: packed up the car <pant, pant> 9:30: last mandolin/fiddle classes <small sigh of relief> 10:30: checked … Continue reading
sorrento, the survival
When you are in a strange land, and all around you men are playing banjos, you must find others like you. In other words, women. More specifically, women with a sense of humor. We met some great people!!! DMP decided that, … Continue reading
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the $100 cherry tomato
Look carefully. This is a very rare tomato. A survivor, after several battles with the deer. Here are the guys Who bought the lattice That went under the deck And kept out the deer That ate all the tomatoes From my very … Continue reading
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sorrento, day four: the humiliation
In Revelstoke, our first night in British Columbia, we ate in a pub called “Village Idiots”. We were not aware how accurate this would prove to be, as in “the shape of things to come”. Breakfast was served between 8 … Continue reading
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deadline blues
I’m buried in my office. Here’s what a book-in-progress looks like on an organized day: I’ll see you all when this is finished…
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day three: the invasion of the banjos
I admit, I didn’t think this through. I knew that bluegrass music contained banjos, I really did. I guess I didn’t think there would be so many of them here at camp. When DMP and I drove out of the … Continue reading
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labor day notes
Miscellaneous goings on here during the last weekend of the summer… Must be the “last hurrah” for houseboats. One of them has spent two days cruising up and down the bay. I can’t figure out why. Maybe someone is getting … Continue reading
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day two: sorrento bluegrass festival
On Saturday we knew we had to be on the road by 9 in order to park inside the Sorrento Centre before the Bluegrass Festival started. We skipped the make-your-own-waffle breakfast at the motel, bought some coffee for our travel mugs … Continue reading
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road to sorrento, day one
DMP and I hit the road at 8 AM Friday, after one stop to buy folding “pickin’ stools” at the Big R. No one at the sporting goods store calls them “pickin stools”, of course, because they’re for perching upon … Continue reading
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