Dotty had surgery yesterday, to remove a mammary tumor. She wasn’t recovering as well as they wanted so they suggested she spend the night there. I picked her up this morning, but when I saw all of the open blossoms on the birdhouse gourd plants I had to take a pic. This is more blossoms…
Doodads — walk around the yard on 070525 update: milkweed milkweed
Seems like it has been awhile since doing a doodads post — and that is because it has been! I’ve got a whole post planned about the dawn redwood update — and it’s going to be a good one — but for now here are pics taken today on a stroll around the yard. What…
Music that strikes a chord — “Groundhog Day” by Double Trouble
I was listening to Doyle Bramhall II’s playlist this afternoon and Spotify played this after the playlist was done. First time hearing it and ooh boy this song strikes a chord, both in lyrics and the badassery of the musicianship. Looking little further into the context of this song, I learned that Groundhog Day (aka…
Writer’s Workshop — nobody wants to talk about it…
chart image link It’s a battle of organized money vs. organized people.–Zohran Mamdani I heard a term the other day for the first time: Corporate Democrat. It was defined as a Democrat that serves the corporations that fund their campaigns rather than their constituencies. I think back to the 2016 Presidential election and Bernie Sanders,…
Friday Favorite Feature 44 — Doyle Bramhall II playlist
You’ve heard me mention Doyle Bramhall II a time or 2. Over the break I decided to create a Spotify playlist of my favorite songs from the albums I have of his. I played this playlist MANY times since creating it and it is solid. Please give his music a listen and let me know…
4th of July, 2025 playlist
image link Words escape me for today, so I will let the music speak for me.
#MMB 2025– July — “Black Day in July,” by Gordon Lightfoot
[I wrote the song] as a newspaper man would write an article.— Gordon Lightfoot, about “Black Day in July” Gordon Lightfoot remains one of my most beloved love song writers/balladeers, but he’s just as phenomenal at chronicling impactful bits of human history. Most everybody knows his song, “Edmund Fitzgerald.” He’s written about colonizing nature’s…
Tao Talk 