Things from my Garden

Here are some golden beets I just picked from my garden.

And here are some carrots.  I planted a Carnival Carrot Mix.  
The white one on the left is a parsnip.

SwineGrinder3

This video is the same as one of the previously posted videos. It is now linked to YouTube.

SwineGrinder3.wmv

Don't know what happened to this post - video isn't showing up.

SwineGrinder2

This video is the same as one of the previous video's.  It is now linked to YouTube.

SwineGrinder1

This video is the same as the one below.  I'm experimenting with posting in a different format.  This one is linked to YouTube.  The file size should be smaller.

One more video from Saturday

Here is the remaining video from Saturday night.

(The video that was here has been deleted because it is now posted above as a YouTube link, titled SwineGrinder1.wmv.)

Another Band Video

More from Saturday night.  All of the boys are in High School.   Admit it - all that hair just makes you jealous.


(The video that was posted here before has been replaced with the YouTube link to SwineGrinder2.wmv.)

Mom the Roadie

I spent Saturday being a roadie for Sean's band, SwineGrinder.  The band had an opportunity to play at an all ages venue in Seattle called Studio 7.   I ended up using Kevin's truck to haul down some large amplifiers.  Ok, I wasn't much of a roadie, I was really just the truck driver, although I did help load the stuff in the truck.  The band members set up and broke down the equipment themselves.   The nice thing about this venue (compared to the only other venue where I've seen the band) - they had a good sound system, and good stage lighting.  So the video is pretty good.  Still, I was using a very small handheld digital camera.

If you can't recognize him - Sean is always on the far right.  He plays rhythm guitar.

(The video that was posted here has been replaced by the link to SwineGrinder3.wmv on YouTube.)  

That is actually the third video I took, but posted it first because I did a better job of focusing on Sean and his playing.  The next two show more of the entire band.  For various reasons, I don't think I quite caught an entire song in any of them.

I'll try posting the other two in another post.

Hello, World!

I've decided to try a new thing and find out if I like blogging - especially, find out if I like it better than Facebook, which doesn't really suit me.  What I am likely to blog about.....books, cycling, my dog, gardening, skiing - whatever I happen to be into at the moment.    For now, I'm going to play around with some things.

What I'm reading right now:  Nobody's Fool

by Richard Russo.  Oh, except my copy has the movie promo pic of Paul Newman on it.  I enjoy Richard Russo's books, except I didn't start reading him until about 5 years ago, and I had completely missed this book. I recently picked it up at the library.