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My first post on YouTube, Todd Snider singing "I Waited All My Life for You" at the Madison Folk Fest.

the folk fest

We meandered into Indiana and stopped at Napoleon's Retreat in Napoleon, IN, about 5 p.m. It had been a long and arduous trip, but in a good way. It was a very cute semi circle bar with about 12 stools max. They were very cordial. They knew we couldn't smoke in bars in Ohio anymore.


Here's the view from our balcony at the Hillside Inn. The hotel was not all that. We've booked for the Best Western for the Ribberfest. $76 a night. Not bad.


Friday night it was pretty dang cold and we saw the Duhks who probably would have been fabulous somewhere a little less breezy and chilly.


The Rev. Peyton's Big Damn Band was incredible. This guy could really play the guitars and that washboard woman was out of this world. We hope we can get them at the Swamp.


Here's a close-up of Breezy Peyton.


These guys just played their hearts out. And told some entertaining stories. Unlike the guy after them, Tim Grimm, who was mediocre. Plus they said he won Americana album of the year last year but it was some OTHER Americana award, not the big ones.


We went up to the Broadway Hotel and got a drink for a break in the afternoon of hot sun sitting.


And then there was Todd. I have a video of him singing I Waited All My Life for You but I can't figure out how to get it on the internet. Duh.



We ate some barbecue both nights. Friday night, we took a taxi from the hotel to the fest site and walked back, up this incredibly steep hill to the hotel. The weather was fabulous on Saturday, we got sunburned, we drank a variety of beers.

On the way home, out in the country, we saw a dog and pig running down the side of the road together. We took the interstates home which are faster but so boring. The country road down was nice although we had a detour around Farmland, IN, so we had to go through Ridgeville, IN, where the Top Hat bar served us some Coronas and everybody (OK, there were two guys n there) gave us directions for the detour. We went a different way that we devised on our own. Miss Jenks did some heroic driving.

This weekend, Memorial Day, Cookout Monday eat at 5. I'll have burgers and brats and chips. Have planted a lot of floral display for this. Hope it holds up. My plant luck is marginal.

whirlwindishness

Friday night, I went to the Humane Society wine and cheese with Sal and her sister Lisa who I haven't seen in 20 years or more and Carrie. We had a swell time although we bought nothing in the silent auctions. Then we went to Beckett's and drank and played pool and went outside to smoke (all of us but Sal). We were tanky. I hope Sal got home OK.


Here's Lisa talking to Rodney at Beckett's



Here we are at the wine and cheese.




Here's some chow Sal and Carrie and I had at Rush St. in Ann Arbor when we went to see Norah Jones. Late, but OK.



Saturday, I went and got my new car.

I leased this because (1) my mom, who I have to see a lot more now, had a hard time getting in my Civic and (2) my old friends had a hard time getting in the back seat of my 2-door Civic. Plus now I can sell my Civic for 3 or 4 thousand more than I owe on it and pay that on my loser sister's car loan. Which will defray it by about one-quarter. But at least I have a new car. Which is lovely.

I didn't have a radio show Saturday which is good because I had a ton of stuff to do like yard work. I went to the perennial swap and got some wild ginger from Sherry and a Rose of Sharon. And I got herbs at Calico Sage, basil two kinds and cilantro and parsley, Italian flat leaf.

My kids both called me on Mother's Day although Anne called at 10 pm when I didn't hear the phone so I got the "So you're too busy to take a call from your child on Mother's Day" message. Oh, she's so brusque.

Saturday night, Stubbs and Doug came over and played cards with me and Amy, which was lovely.

Sunday, I went to see my mom and got home about 6:30. Woooh. Tiring. But she seemed to like it. I took her meatloaf and potato salad and beef enchiladas so she'll have something to eat. Which I made after working on the backyard for 3 hours Saturday. How do I do it??? It amazes me.

This Sunday I won't go down because Annie and I are going to the folk fest in Madison, IN, Fri Sat Sun. Actually we just drive home on Sun but I'm taking a week off from going to Delaware.

On the way out of town on Sunday, I saw my old high school boyfriend working in his yard so I stopped and talked for a little bit. When I left, he said, "It's always nice to talk to you. Always." They all still love me. Can't help it that I'm lucky, as Toni Price sings.

Tonight I mowed AND RAKED my front yard so finally it looks good. Maybe tomorrow I can make the back yard look better.

The week after this is Memorial Day already and I'm having the second annual Bean Fest although I hope only Annette and Gus bring beans because theirs are the best. Monday, eat around 5. Tell your friends.

in and out

Note to self: hurricane songs.

So the mom thing continues. She was starving when I got there so we went to Cracker Barrel where she finished off chicken and mashed w/ gravy and cole slaw and biscuits. I had made her a ham/onion/cheese quiche, a chicken pasta hot dish and a cold pasta salad and took some brats with kraut I had cooked and frozen. I hope this holds her til I get back down this Sunday. Hmmmm, what to make this time....

Somehow I lost all her washcloths which I remember bringing home to wash but now they seem to be missing. Gotta get some more o those.

Ana Popovic was v. good but her voice was a little raspy. Monday and Tuesday, yard work and carousing.

Friday night is the Humane Society wine and cheese which I was not going to until Sal said her sister Lisa would be here for it, so I'm going. I may have to bag on Eddie Shaw this Saturday. It's so hectic around here. Because the next weekend is the Folk Festival and I'll be gone Friday - Sunday.

mo music mo music

Today the Atomic Mama announces that K D Lang and Lyle Lovett are at the Hill Auditorium on June 28 and Jenks and I decide to go although we know we cannot get seats together on the main floor so we go for single seats on opposite sides of the main floor about 20 rows back. I hope it will be delightful because I cannot find any seating chart pictures that assure me that they will be better than the mezzanine or balcony. But it's kd and then Lyle with his BIG BAND so how bad can it be?

Last night, Sal and her friend Carrie and I went to see Norah Jones at the Michigan Theatre in Ann Arbor. It was fabulous. We were very far back and could have used binoculars and the picture I took with my cell phone was worse than the Lucinda one I took so you're not seeing it. The woman sings and plays the grand piano and a keyboard and guitar. We ate at Rush St. where we had some small plates and it was very good although the service was not all that.

Today I had a radio show and then came home and cooked several things to take to my mom tomorrow after which I will go to Mickey Finn's with Jenks to see Ana Popovic. And then back to work on the day the weather clears up. Supposedly. So nighty night.

running on empty

Holy smokes, it's another week gone by. Tomorrow night, it's Norah Jones at the Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor with Sal and Carrie. I hope to get back in time to see The Recipe at Nate and Wally's. "With elements of funk, fusion, rock and traditional southern influences seeping into their sound, the Recipe do what jambands do best: weave several styles into a seamless whole."

Got my front yard mowed last night before GNO. The back is extremely long but it's going to have to wait until Saturday now. Sunday, go see mom who is having food preparation issues.

Listening to Robert Earl Keen "What I Really Mean." Tonight after work, I got a pedicure and a brow wax from Chip's daughter who is in beauty school. The pedicure was good but the brow wax was not all that. Went to Amy's to drink a bottle of wine.

My crazy next door neighbor has taken to catching me whenever I get home, leave home. This has got to stop. I am not her keeper. Last night, she wanted me to see what her grass cutter guy chopped out of her back yard. Tonight, I had to look at the neighbors' cut grass. Sheesh.

Also, my cats seem to have fleas already. I need to dose them. OK, did that. Probably need to set up the flea catcher: light over pan of soapy water. Did that.

Bought some new clothes today: two pairs of cargo capri pants, a black top with cleavage, a leopard print dress with cleavage. Cleavage is much better with my new haircut.

I think I have a radio show this Saturday and Sunday I go to see my mom and then Ana Popovic.

May 12, Eddie Shaw at Hines Farm . Then the next weekend it's the Madison Folk Fest.

Cleaned the cd player. My, what an exciting life.