is crazy bright :-).
Love you.
Night.
Tuesday, June 30, 2015
Doug McCleod
WC Handy Blues Festival, May 2015
We love this guy.
He's awesome.
Go see him.
Guarantee you, you will entertained.
He's like 80.
Grew up around the music.
In Virginia I think.
Played with everybody under the sun.
Big Joe Turner, Lowell Fulson and Big Mama Thornton among others.
Wrote songs for Albert King and Albert Collins.
Great storyteller.
2014 Blues Music Award for Acoustic Artist Of The Year and
2014 Blues Music Award Acoustic Album Of The Year (There's A Time)
2013 Blues Blast Music Award for Male Artist Of The Year.
Perennial Blues Music Award nominee.
The accolades are very well deserved.
Man has been at it a long time.
You can tell he loves coming to Henderson.
Loves the view of the train tracks going over the river he gets from the stage and the park itself and he's right.
It's really nice.
We've seem him three or four times.
We go out of our way to get up at 9 and get there by 11:30 because he's playing.
Plenty of other times when he wasn't playing we didn't go so early.
It's a great way to start the day's festivities.
One of his things is:
"I don't use a set list and I don't ever play the same song the same way twice. So you people right here are going to be the only people in the world to ever hear these songs played this way and I think that makes it a lil special for us all."
Another is:
"And it's going to sound exactly like this..." Sometimes with an added "Here in beautiful Henderson, Ky right on the river at the WC Handy Blues Festival on June 20th 2015."
He said the reason he says "Exactly like this..." is because that's exactly what's going to happen lol.
"String break? Exactly like this.
Forget a verse in a song? Exactly like this.
What the hell is "something like this anyway? Don't you hate it when they say that?
What the hell that mean? The people in St. Louis last night got the real version?"
Has an album called...
You guessed it:
Exactly like this.
Lol.
He is great.
He really is.
Go see him.
You'll be glad you did.
Promise.
:-)
"...Windows are rolled down
Moon is hanging low
Windows are rolled down
Think it's time for me to go hey-ay-ay-a...-ay..."
"I'm
sorry, I'm busy planning the wedding."
Whenever it was starting to get bad yesterday, I thought about that and it just put a smile on my face :-).
Love you Virgie :-).
Monday, June 29, 2015
Did
I finally get it right :-) ?
I told you a long long time ago I was dense lol
I mean did I finally figure out a big piece to the puzzle?
I mean you said so, so I'll take it at that.
I did say do it however you wanted didn't I lol.
I just didn't see the point in tagging along with you endlessly repeating "I really don't care."
about every lil decision there was to be made every step along the way.
Cause I really don't Lucy.
All I care about is you...in that dress...saying I do.
That's it.
That's all that matters to me.
People talk to me these days and they might as well be talking to a tree.
Cause all I see is your face.
And all I hear is your voice.
All I think about is our moment.
I'm just oblivious to anything else going on around me at this point Lucy.
Sorry sweetie.
Just the way it is.
Love you.
More than you'll ever know.
Thank
goodness for lemon balm lol.
Grilled chicken, grilled yellow squash and bacon seasoned green beans.
Where you at lucy?
Love you.
:-).
On
the other hand?
You've had three years.
How long does it take?
Bahahahahahahaha.
Thats a joke there Bambi lol.
Calm down.
Relax.
There ya go.
It's all gonna be okay sweetheart.
Promise.
"I'm
sorry, I was busy planning a wedding."
Greatest comeback of all time?
Maybe?
Perhaps lol?
Put me in my place and made me smile and laugh at the same time :-).
See why I love you?
"I'm
sorry, I was busy planning a wedding."
Yikes!
Touche :-).
Not much a fella can say back to that lol.
Except you're awesome :-).
And thank you.
Thank you so very much:-).
For lots of stuff.
Love you.
It's nice to be somebody's everything.
Especially when they are yours as well :-).
Didn't fall asleep till late.
Layin back down for a bit.
Ttys Bambi.
She
That sermon was oddly prophetic to say the least.
Makes me wonder whats up with that lol.
How could that ever be?
Mom cried during the children's time.
It was the ladies first time doing it.
Her message was all about change and accepting the fact that it happens.
Thats the one with the two bible verses from earlier.
Mom had her last Sunday with me and Nich in church seems like.
Happy for her :-).
Strong, good woman.
Couldn't ask for better.
I wouldn't have went if it wasn't for Nich.
He said he wanted to hear the new preacher.
Good :-).
I wanted to go to the picnic anyway :-).
Not right to go eat the food if you don't go to service mom always said.
I agree.
Good for all of us to be there.
Some people have made peace with things.
It was nice.
The whole day.
Played with JR on the trampoline for 45 minutes or more.
And the swings and the lol...
Alan acted like it was the last time we were gonna be around each other or listen to music for a while.
He stayed up here longer than normal.
Christian said he was glad to hear Nich went to church today.
That meant a lot.
Dave came and hung out for hours lol.
Just now left.
Thanks for today :-).
For letting me know what you did.
Saved me a lot of heartache.
Appreciate it.
I took some lemon balm when I started to feel it coming.
Got tired and went and laid down.
Listened to the birds through the windows in the bedroom.
Big man said don't worry.
I said okay :-).
Listening more than talking to him these days.
I aint talking about Clarence Clemons lol.
Seems to be working :-).
Anyway, today?
Kinda makes me think she finally learned not to poke the bear lol.
Hopefully anyway lol.
It's all good.
I know wats up...
Be cool, be cool...lol.
Sometimes its just too damn hard.
But she loves me anyway?
How cool is that?
Cause I think it's just about the coolest thing ever sweetheart.
Love you Bambi.
Or whatever you name is today lol :-).
Sunday, June 28, 2015
The
pain and the hurt Lucy?
It didn't come from missing you when you left.
It came from missing you from the beginning of time sweetheart.
Love you Virgie.
Sermon
was on having a vision and having the faith to see it through :-).
Go figure lol.
The lady that did Children's time?
used the following verses:
Proverbs 3: 5-6.
Jeremiah 29:11
Talked about change being inevitable.
You tell me Lucy :-).
Morning Sweetheart
You're the most amazing, beautiful person I have ever met Dingleberry.
Love you.
Yeah it is :-).
Saturday, June 27, 2015
To
all the haters:
"Life...Love...and Peace to you all."
Jimmy Cliff
Keep hatin.
We'll keep lovin.in return.
Currently
under remodeling:
My favorite route.
There's a detour thats longer which isn't really a problem.
It's just that this way has a lot more hills and curves.
Rumi
Observe the wonders as they occur around you.
Don't claim them.
Feel the artistry moving through and be silent.
Rumi
When your love began to fill up my heart, whatever else I had was burnt away.
Logic & book-learning tossed on the fire; now I study song & poetry all day.
If
James wants to show up?
Let him.
What better way to show forgiveness?
No grudges held over here sweetheart.
Ever.
Maybe for a while.
But then I come to my senses.
That
Promise Land video was from 1978 in Phoenix.
I saw him for the first time three years later in the fall of 81.
You were four.
Bahahahahahahahaha
Well
since you like it so much:
"...I've done my best to live the right way
I get up every morning and go to work each day
But your eyes go blind and your blood runs cold
Sometimes I feel so weak I just want to explode
Explode and tear this town apart
Take a knife and cut this pain from my heart
Find somebody itching for something to start
The dogs on main street howl,
'cause they understand,
If I could take one moment into my hands
Mister, I ain't a boy, no, I'm a man,
And I believe in a promised land.
There's a dark cloud rising from the desert floor
I packed my bags and I'm heading straight into the storm
Gonna be a twister to blow everything down
That ain't got the faith to stand its ground
Blow away the dreams that tear you apart
Blow away the dreams that break your heart
Blow away the lies that leave you nothing but lost and brokenhearted
The dogs on main street howl,
'cause they understand,
If I could take one moment into my hands
Mister, I ain't a boy, no, I'm a man,
And I believe in a promised land
I believe in a promised land..."
And
I don't know that anybody ever called me beautiful before :-).
You're amazing.
Sent right to me I have no doubt.
Al I know is, before to much longer?
I am going to be married to this most beautiful, most intelligent, most amazing person I ever met.
Works for me :-).
I'm
scared that when i finally do get to hold you?
I'm never gonna want to let go.
I'm afraid I'll have to chase you for another three years.
Bahahahahahahaha
Sevens
Sweet :-).
BTW?
I aint superficial sweetheart :-).
Like you don't know this.
Sweet words from messyheads this AM :-).
Means a lot.
Mom sure changed her tune yesterday lol.
Like that was her I was emailing back and forth.
You guys crack me up :-).
Love you.
Friday, June 26, 2015
You
know?
For a boy that wanted a hair dryer and other "life enhancing items"?
He sure doesn't use it.
Any thoughts on why that might be Lucy lol?
Did
you know?
Yesterday was the day we met.
Three years ago.
Today?
Today was the day you came flying down the stairs with a smile more radiant that any I had ever seen before.
I've been wanting to see it again ever since.
For like you know...
Forever.
Love you Virgie.
Happy stairs day sweetheart.
Thursday, June 25, 2015
The
pulled pork is about gone.
Sorry :-(.
Tried to make it last.
Dylan had five sandwiches last night.
Five lol!
I don't know if he was that hungry or it was that good.
Probably a lil of both I guess.
Love you Virgie.
Sophie's puppies
Nine of them.
It looked like the poor thing was ready to pop weeks ago lol.
I guessed 10 :-).
You
guys and all your over the top bull shit.
Give me a break.
Nich ought to be an actor, thats what he ought to be.
Janet and him both talking about French Lick.
You guys aren't that slick.
Christians dog had puppies last night.
Five by the time we had left.
Gonna go check on them here in a bit.
Love you.
Rumi
Do not look back,
No one knows how the world ever began.
Do not fear the future, Nothing lasts forever.
If you dwell on the past or future,
You will miss the moment.
Like
you don't read what I send in Skype just as soon as I send it.
Give me a break.
Whatcha gonna be thinkin bout all day?
Huh?
Bahahahahahahahahaha
Wednesday, June 24, 2015
Yall
aint foolin nobody.
Tired of it.
Been tired of it.
I've let everyone know I am tired of it.
Stop it.
Now.
Please.
Thanks.
Tuesday, June 23, 2015
Almost
"Definition of irony: Having more blessings come your way than you ever thought imaginable all because you never cared if you ever had them or not."
paradoxical now isn't it?
And that is a "mighty big word" used in the correct context lol.
Ask Nicholas about "mighty big word".
Surely that story is on here somewhere already.
Love ya Dollbaby.
Al's
grand daughter posted this the other day:
"Pouring salt in my sugar won't make yours any sweeter."
Something like that.
I thought it was great.
I think she said it was from a book they read.
Awesome.
Because it's the truth.
Buddy Guy
is based out of Chicago.
Stones are playing Milwaukee on this tour.
Just right up the road from Chicago.
Guess who is opening?
Yep.
Buddy Guy.
That is all Keith Richards doins.
Thats one of the many reasons I like the guy so much.
Seen Buddy Guy twice :-).
"My band wants me to practice. I tell them, hell, if I aint got it down by now practicing aint gonna help much. Besides, we can practice all we want, I'm just gonna play it how I want to live anyway so why should we bother?"
:-).
Just love it.
Definition
of irony:
Having more blessings come your way than you ever thought imaginable all because you never cared if you ever had them or not.
And
why you always gotta leave me hangin in Skype for? Lol.
For somebody thats always worried about somebody leaving you sure do your fair share lol.
Muhammad Ali
“What counts in the ring is what you can do after you’re exhausted. The same is true to life.”
For
The uninitiated :-).
This is who we saw with his band, for free, in a park on the Ohio, in beautiful Henderson, KY, just sixty miles down the road, this past saturday.
Wanna guess who was front and center?
Monday, June 22, 2015
Well?
Who would have ever thunk that?
"The degradation of the American workforce is happening across occupations and professions, and across all sectors of the economy -- profit-making companies as well as nonprofit institutions.The middle class is not only losing pay; it's losing job security, predictable hours, and respect.
The central economic goal of our era must be to restore dignity, security, and good wages to American work."
Thats my man Robert Reich again for ya.
Ta da!
Janet was nice enough to give me Huberts old chain saw.
Came in handy today.
Hadn't the slightest clue about it other than when I looked at it to see what it was and take it home with me.
Couldn't have even told you the brand name lol.
18 in Poulan.
It did the job.
Put bar oil in it.
Filled it up with 2 cycle fuel, engaged the choke, primed it a few times and on about the 6th or 7th pull it fired right up.
No telling when the last time it had been started was.
Usually me and chain saws don't play so nice together lol.
Think
we hit the afterburners a few times yesterday lol.
"Your eyes are burnin' holes through me
I'm gasoline
I'm burnin' clean..."
Think
I got it figured out why Nicholas went to visit grandma Janet over Father's Day weekend and why Alan felt compelled to stay and have lunch with us on his birthday\Fathers Day.
I think I do.
But it seems like every time I think?
I end up let down.
So I aint gonna think about it so much.
Seems to be my biggerest (just made that word up lol) problem.
Thinking to much that is.
Time to go piddle with a chainsaw\ big ass tree limb.
Heard the lightening strike.
Sounded like it was right over the house.
I waited for a second hoping nothing came crashing through the roof.
Nothing did :-).
Woke up this AM to this lol.
Happens all the time.
It's why my trees all look like hell.
Well that and hurricane force winds and ice storms and the...and the...and...
Love you.
ttys.
Morning Sunshine :-)
Know what the great thing about today is?
It's a brand new day sweetheart.
Who needs a five star hotel to have fresh cut flowers on a regular basis?
Not us :-).
Just want the chance to you know...
Go get them for you in person.
For going on...
Like three years now.
Love ya Bambi.
Sorry if I upset you yesterday, like I said, today is a new day :-).
Sunday, June 21, 2015
It's not
gonna quit till I know.
I can tell you right now thats how this one is going to be :-(.
At least I didn't take any meds.
Shit makes me a zombie the day of and the day after.
No thanks.
Just soon work my way through things.
However long it takes.
I love you.
More than I ever thought it possible for anybody to ever love anyone.
Thats how much.
I think we are as perfect a match as ever comes along.
I think we can have a wonderful, full, fun life ahead of us.
If we both didn't think so we would have flown the coup a long long time ago.
Here's the thing.
My peace of mind comes first and foremost.
I won't sacrifice it to gain the world.
Period.
It doesn't have a price tag.
It can't be bought.
Nobody can afford it.
No one.
No price.
Ever.
Its priceless.
Yes, it's missing somewhat right now lol.
But I've had it before.
And I'll have it again.
And I'll have it on my terms.
Cause otherwise?
It's not worth havin'.
All I have wanted since the divorce with Joanna 13 years ago is peace of mind.
It seems to come and go.
But I will get it back.
And this time?
It's gonna stick around for a while.
A good while.
I've come to far to have all I ever wanted staring at me right in the face to just throw it all away.
I will have my peace of mind soon, one way or another, I'll have it.
Promise.
It
might even take three :-).
Sorry if I upset you.
It was not a good day.
Know what though?
Tomorrow is a new one and we get to start all over again :-).
How great is that?
Love you Virgie.
Just want my wife sweetheart.
Love you.
Night.
If
you don't want the sleeping bear to bite your head off?
Then don't continually poke him with a stick and you won't EVER have to worry about it.
EVER!
One more time cause I don't think people are getting it.
Either that or they just don't wanna.
"don't continually poke him with a stick and you won't EVER have to worry about it."
(Thanks Chad)
I told you, you practical joker types just don't know when to stop.
Even after being told you don't.
Nich still doesn't get this.
Thinks it's perfectly okay to agitate to no end even after being warned and then gets all upset when the bear gets ends up all pissed off.
Lots of adults just like this as well.
Passive aggressive m*&%^$ f*(&^%$.
"It's never ever what I did to cause a situation or incident, oh lord no, that can't ever be the problem.
It's you and your reaction to it thats the problem.
Yeah, thats the ticket, it's you, it could never be me or anything I say or do."
Hey dipshits?
It's not the bears fault.
He warned you.
You kept on.
He told you about this a long, long time ago.
Nobody ever listens.
If they do?
They are not hearing whats being said.
Don't poke the fucking bear and everything will be okay.
"Honey?"
"Yes."
"I'm really not in a joking mood right now, please don't."
"Okay."
Not eight hours later still tryin to be and do what somebody told you they weren't in the mood for.
If I wanted another four year old in the house?
I would have had one.
But I don't see one running around here.
Know why?
CAUSE I DIDN'T WANT ANOTHER ONE!
Am I getting through here at all?
Geez Louise.
Good
thing I managed to stay away from almost everybody today lol.
Hey, at least I know to do so ;-).
There's
just no need for this shit any more.
It's like mom hitting me up the AM we are cooking about job openings.
Spare me.
Please.
Enough.
Everybody knows what up.
Don't ruin any more days.
Just don't.
What?
I need Nicholas here to text you so you get it through your head like he finally got it through hers?
Like I said.
You have no idea.
None.
So.
One more time, just so we all understand.
Pretty women are a dime a dozen.
Even the smart ones.
Men with integrity and character?
Emphasis on MEN.
Not boys.
These days?
Thats the rarest find of all.
Don't ever think I don't know.
Be careful not to take it for granted.
Don't "forget your magic" as somebody once said.
Oh
some people think it's funny I like a tree lol.
Go figure.
It's not the tree itself.
It's a metaphor for all that it stands for and all the analogies that can be drawn from it for life.
So it's not the tree itself.
It's what the tree represents.
Huge difference.
Most people would look at it and only ever see a tree.
They could never see life and all the lessons learned.
I look at the tree and I see life.
Sacred, given from above, life.
I could never look at it and just see a tree.
And that, in a nutshell, is the difference between me and the rest of the world.
Love ya Bambi.
Guess where I'm headed?
I
just want this segment of the journey to be complete.
Thats all.
It's just to the point where it hurts to much to think about it.
Think about things actually.
Lots of things.
I'm ready and have been for a long time to start the next leg of this adventure.
Put a boys mind at ease Lucy.
It's time sweetheart.
Love you.
It's
the 25th.
Got it.
And yes I will still have my magic as well :-).
Still don't know where or when or who or how.
Good enough.
Three is my favorite number.
Know why?
The trinity :-).
It just came to me.
Like things do sometimes.
It's like: "Child, chill, here, shut the fuck up before you blow it"
K.
Check.
People been acting funny bout Tuesday.
Mom.
Janet when she was here.
Nich.
At least I didn't take a pill.
I'm gonna go ride.
Peace.
(It does as mind good)
All
because everyone all around me seems to know what's going on in my life but me.
Me?
For some reason?
I'm not afforded that privilege.
Haven't been able to make plans since before Christmas.
Then I blow up and it's all my fault.
Give me a break.
I've told you and told you and told you.
I do not care about money.
Yours, mine (lol) or anyone else's at this point.
I don't care about a big fancy house or cars or a lifestyle.
I just don't.
It could all be gone in an instant.
I won't be any happier today or tomorrow or three months from now, on my porch, or over at moms, or in the atrium of the West Baden Springs Resort, than I would have been over two years ago with just a few people anywhere in the world already.
My porch included.
You're what I want.
Not some big fancy ceremony for everyone else to see.
If that's what you want?
That's fine.
Told you a long time ago I don't really care.
Do it how you want.
But for God sakes put a boys mind at ease.
This is supposed to be getting easier and more fun at this point.
Instead it just keeps getting harder and more stressful.
Somebody needs to step up and respect some of my wishes here.
All I want is my mind eased.
For you know, like the 50,000th time.
What is the point in seeing a man suffer like this?
Makes no fucking sense at all.
None.
Livid.
Sorry but it's where I'm at.
I told you earlier today.
ENOUGH!
I'm going riding.
Good luck getting me to answer a phone or being back any time soon.
Love you Bambi.
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