…was spent cooking pigmeat.  A Boston butt to be exact.  I used a good dry rub mixture given to me by the fishin’ bud, Gene, and I labored over a bed of charcoal with some hickory strips thrown in for 8 hours on Monday.  that don’t count the hour or so I spent mixing the [...]

…of a century has passed since me and the wifey-mae ran through a hailstorm of rice.  Yes after the wedding. We were married on a Sunday, August 7th in 19 hundred and 83.  The prior century.  The 20th century.  It was hot and it hadn’t rained in about 6 weeks prior to our wedding.  After the [...]

My children will always be my children. It’s just that now they are adults (well, the second one is almost an adult). This will be her first Presidential election. Mine was in 1980, when Ronald Reagan went into office. One child will go fishing with a bunch of pre-schoolers today. She will [...]

It’s been a while since I’ve posted so here goes:  Last night was spent wallerin’ the porch of my fishing buddy, Gene Wilson.  As stated before, we’ve been friends for 25-nearly 30 years now. We both believe in preserving or continuing old county ways of life.  That’s where the porch wallerin’ came in.  Folks don’t do [...]

With a bit of regret and a sense of relief, I’m announcing the end of The Linville Ridge Band. It’s been a wonderful 6 year journey with many opportunities. And while a band is dis-banding, the friendship remains. I have the utmost respect and admiration for my fellow bandmates and I’m sure we’ll keep in touch. [...]

Boy, I’ve been pretty much of a slacker of late.  Here it is the 20th of May and the last entry prior to this one was April 30th.  That may change before too long. Anyway for those interested, Mountain Heart will be doing The Opry again this weekend.  They just found out Monday afternoon.  Friday and [...]

For those interested, my son Aaron, will be playing with Mountain Heart (his full-time gig) on the Grand Ole Opry this Friday and Saturday night.  By clicking on “Opry” you can get performance times for the show and links to listen in online. We’ve made a few treks out to Nashland over the past few months, [...]

Morning all, I’ve been behind in blogging lately.  Taxes, young’uns, music-stuff, and taxes.  You know how it goes.  I also got a bit involved in researching my family history through Ancestry.com .  That was fun and interesting, to me at least, and I hope to discover more of those stories. Sista Smiff tagged me in a short survey about [...]

The Dan Tyminski Band showed up in my hometown this past Friday night.  This event was organized by The Men’s Club of Morganton, a non-profit club much like the Rotary clubs across the country.  The funds generated by the show (about $6,000 cleared) will be used to fund 4-5 scholarships for folks in the Burke County [...]