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Archive for January, 2011

Never-Ending Nieve

More snow this morning. Used the plow truck to get the young’n down the hill for school pickup. This winter has been wintry.  Had a houseful yesterday, including friends and relatives from Panama, big sledding party in the yard, multicolored snowsuits shooting down the slope in all directions, many happy hollers, much Spanglish joy.

A Night At The Opera (House)

Thank you everyone who came to the beautiful Mineral Point Opera House last night.  Sold out, a special thanks to those of you who sat/stood in places where their weren’t chairs.  Don’t know what to say, except again, thanks.  Told some new stories, some old stories, and especially enjoyed throwing in an extra Packers reference.  Sneezing Cow crew arrived safely home by 3:30 a.m.  Again, thank you, and a specific tip of the cap to Richmond for the kind opening comments.

Tent Show Radio Tonight – Yonder Mountain String Band

If you’re within range of one of these stations tonight (Saturday, January 29th) we hope you’ll join Mike as he hosts another edition of Tent Show Radio from Big Top Chautauqua.

The musical guests will be the Yonder Mountain String Band, and in this episode’s monologue – delivered from the backstage dressing room with the one lonely little lightbulb burnin’ – Mike discusses the joys of late-night backroad pickup truck driving.

Then There Was The Time…

Reading the responses to yesterday’s post I am reminded of the time I was doing some spring plowing for my brother. The tire on the plow’s trailing wheel went flat, so I pulled out at the end of the row and headed home, not noticing that the combination of the flat tire and the uphill access to the county road affected the hypotenuse of the plow’s relationship to the earth in such a manner that the first plowshare slipped neatly beneath the asphalt and rolled up a patch the size and thickness of a 100-pound brownie. There followed a rather desperate display in which I performed a hyperkinetic two-footed stomp-dance, trying to get the brownie back in the pan, as it were, before someone in an orange truck happened by…

Tent Show Radio Tomorrow – Yonder Mountain String Band

If you’re within range of one of these stations tomorrow (Saturday, January 29th) we hope you’ll join Mike as he hosts another edition of Tent Show Radio from Big Top Chautauqua.

The musical guests will be the Yonder Mountain String Band, and in this episode’s monologue – delivered from the backstage dressing room with the one lonely little lightbulb burnin’ – Mike discusses the joys of late-night backroad pickup truck driving.

Notes From an Ambulance Call

Just got back from a first responder run.  Enroute, I heard the following radio traffic, which made me smile and may give you an indication of the territory around here:

DISPATCH: Sheriff Deputy #123, please respond to XXX Blank Road, make contact regarding a report of stolen chickens.

DEPUTY #345: Dispatch, be advised, Deputy #123 is unavailable, he’s out chasing cows.

Unrelated, but perhaps of interest, while responding to this call I was also reminded that the reason they put that little “ON/OFF” switch on the controller for your snowplow is to prevent the possibility of your rescue kit tipping off the kid’s car seat and landing on the controller, at which you suddenly find yourself plowing bare asphalt at, oh, too-many-miles-per-hour.

Digital Venison

I wrote about Venison in Population 485. Finally they are digitized and iTuned.

It’s Sunday driving music…if you are aaaannnnngry*.

*explicitly angry, if I may offer a polite warning. Sometimes specific sentiments require specific vernacular.