A musician goes to the bad side of town for a gig. He remembers he left his banjo in his car but forgot to lock the doors. He runs back but it’s too late… somebody had already put another banjo in.

An elderly couple are in church and the the wife leans over and whispers to her husband “I have a little gas - can’t hear them, they’re silent, but why is everybody in the whole church starring and pointing?” The husband says “Because you need to change the batteries in your hearing aid”.

A 85 year old man was out fishing one morning hears a voice calling “Hey Guy” and he looks down and sees a a frog sitting on a rock. The frog then spoke again “hey Guy”. . . . .so he answers, What do you want?” The frog says,”pick me up and kiss me and I will turn into a beautiful woman and be yours forever!” So he bent over and picked the frog up and put him in his pocket. WAIT! the frog declares. . . You are suppose to kiss me! The mans says, “That’s OK, I think I’d rather have a talking frog!”.

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You get 2 gigs of storage for free but the big difference is that once you upload photos you can do live editing like color adjust, sharpen, crop, remove red eye with an easy to use short list of Photoshop actions. Photoshop is the best program for photo editing but it’s expensive to buy. Here your photos get to go live online with their buddy Photoshop. They say Adobe is doing this because they’re afraid Google is fixing to put their own free photo editor online. They want to show that Google stuff looks clunky and Adobe stuff looks sexy. I ran also across this and it’s something else you’d usually pay for - a complete set of tutorials from Kelby Training. It’s very much worth getting your own free Photoshop account and then watching those videos. You’ll be an expert. I put a few photos into a test album on this new thing, click on the image below. What you’ll see is a very short slideshow but you can hit the “join now” button at the top and start really using it.

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14 years ago today born right here at the house. What a unique and wonderful person you are.

A fair number of years ago I bought this “park bench” at Home Deeper on sale for about $40 bucks and marveled at the impressive picture on the box and visioned of how elegant it would look in my yard. After assembling it I realized that the $25 assembly fee Home Depot had offered would have been a bargain indeed. It came together with a little disappointment in the wood quality, misaligned pre-drilled holes and short a screw and two metric nuts.

The assembly kit came with two slat repair straps ” Oh! wasn’t that thoughtful. They did seem to lessen the amount of flabby epidermis that protruded betwixt them especially while sitting deep or when someone sits beside you. Oh Well! I did not have to wait that long to discover my bench was now a catawumpus pile of scrap weathered wood and a perfectly good frame of cast iron.

Out of sheer revenge I went over to Lowe’s deeper and purchased 3 treated landscape timbers for a buck apiece, cut them in half and mortised the ends on a table saw and then enlarged the existing holes and screwed them on from the back side where you can not see them with rustproof lag screws. All in less time than it took to assemble the kit originally

Now I have had the bench in my front yard under the thinking tree. . . .it can sit a bear’s butt comfortably and now all my neighbors want to know where to get one!

Thinking may not always help. . . . but, It never hurts. . . . . .

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I’m not sure what or who I’d be without color or sound. Both of these intangibles are such a

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I like Marcia Ball a lot. I love Texas/Louisiana roadhouse piano playing and she’s one of the best. I was driving home from the recording studio today and 92.1 was giving away tickets to a television show taping on her tonight. Bonnie Priest convinced

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John Sr. is 71 today.

Mitch Webb used to make great mix tapes, I miss ‘em. Click here to listen to this “muxtape” I just made. The spirit of mix tapes was to turn people on to music they hadn’t heard. In the new world of MP3s, people still miss the personal recommendation that came with third generation, finger print smudged TDK low bias cassette tape cartridges that held a little musical soul you could slip into your shirt pocket. This service is one of many that try to go there but this one’s particularly easy to create them with and the resulting player starts the songs really fast. Click the first song and let it go and they’ll all play in order or click on any title and that one will start. You can make your own and send the link to people.

1. You would never guess. . . . .so. . .
2. It’s fun to wake up and find out
3. It may not be much but it;s got to be more than nothing
4. Dose not cost anything but calories
5. I forget
6. Whipple work?
7. It was closer than the other thing that needed to be done.
8. Just think! I could have not done it and then I would have that much more to do. . .
9. Why are you reading this. . . .
10. I don’t know. . .

The power pole you see in the middle of this picture broke at the base that had rotted about a foot section at ground level. After a strong gusty wind I found the pole dangling by the cables strung through a large oak tree. I called CPS and they informed me that they no longer provide a repair service for commercial accounts that they could send a contractor to do the work and they were sure it would be less than a million dollars.

I was most unhappy with their attitude. . . .i could hardly believe it. The contractor came and told me it would take three men and two trucks to do the job and I could hear the cash register ring every time he blinked his eyes. It wasn’t until he told me he was going to call a tree removal service to cut the tree down that I figured I had better get smart here. Once they cut the cable job had to be reinspected for reconnection and the tree would be butchered if not gone forever.

I drilled a hole in the top of the pole stub and drove an inch and a half pipe in the center except for about six inches and then I drilled a three inch hole in the bottom of the pole. Took two come-a-longs at about 120 degrees apart and slowly lifted the pole back up on the the stub with the pipe receiving the centered hole perfectly. It was almost too easy! I dug 4 feet down around the base and screwed foot pegs into the pole at both ends and tied them together with 5 vertical re bar rods (you can see the tops of them in the picture below) and after 14 bags of concrete later you see one repaired pole. Straight and strong and ready for another 30 years.

When you are 70 you have to work smarter than harder because that is all you have left . . .

Last but not least is the utility sump for the RV/Trailer parking space. No more cables, sewer lines, water standing problems. Power enough to run all AC units at once and all underground. I now have 1800 gallons of septic capacity with 4 satellite tanks with transfer pumps (like this one) they are all automatic. The City doesn’t have a sewer system this good.

See . . . . I’ve been busy. . . .

she likes to go out there after work with her lazy dog. I snuck up on her yesterday and caught her sitting down out near the ridge. There wasn’t a single leaf on any of these trees last week, everything’s greening out now. I think it might be a good spot to put a circle of chairs for the songwriter workshop.

Renee said a little something about lasers used for making artwork. Like but unlike screenprinting they can put designs unto all kinds of things; plastic, wood, cloth, metal. Seems like somehow these Celtic knot things Taylor dreams up would work great with that. What do you think Renee?

Born in 1948. . . . .He would have been 60 years old Sunday.

Townes TV. All Townes, all the time.

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I thought Taylor would like this. There’s no trick, it’s a

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This first John Whipple is Casey, Taylor and Evan’s oldest American grandfather. He’s like Adam of

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