Portland Flower Show

Still don't like the name, but i can't wait to see some stuff actually growing!! I've had more than enough of this snow and rain!!

Buddy Miles - Hendrix drummer (& California Raisins singer...who knew!!?? ) dead at 60

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- Buddy Miles, a drummer who played with Jimi Hendrix and sang in the claymation commercials featuring the California Raisins in the 1980s, died Tuesday. He was 60.

Miles, who had been suffering from congestive heart failure, died in Austin, publicist Duane Lee said.

Miles was drummer on Hendrix's landmark "Electric Ladyland" album before officially joining Band of Gypsys a few months later. Miles is best known for "Them Change," a song he wrote and performed.

Sing

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them. - Thoreau

Happy Birthday, Dad

USS Essex (CV-9) (also CVA-9 and CVS-9) was a United States Navy aircraft carrier, the lead ship of her class.

Essex was the prime recovery carrier for the Apollo 7 mission. She recovered the Apollo 7 crew on October 22, 1968 after a splashdown north of Puerto Rico.

Winter Lawn

Greener grass
Comes and goes.
One season it rests
One season it grows.

For some its never
Green enough.
For others, its perfect
No matter the month.

I'll take my grass
With it's weeds and such
Because I know it surrounds
The ones I love very much.

TK

Family Watchdog

this is kind of creepy...but i guess its better to be aware of what's in our neighborhoods. I also hope that if i were to dig a little deeper, i would find that the revenue for all the obnoxious banner ads are going to some charitable cause.
TK



When you visit this site you can enter your address and a map will pop up with a small icon of a house when you live.

Surrounding your house you will see red, blue, and green, dots covering your entire neighborhood.

When you click on one of these dots, a picture of a person will appear with an address and the description of the crime he or she has committed.

This site was developed by John Walsh from Americas Most Wanted

Guess that movie line -

"...the laddy fancies himself to be a poet!"

Latest Column - Birches on my mind

"Over the years, I’ve come to see most birch trees only as white accents against a predominately brown and green landscape of pines, oaks and maples. They seem to appear sometimes randomly as solitary beacons of contrast in the forest."

Read the whole article by clicking the link above.

TK

Good bunch of guys here

...at least they sound pretty cool.

TK

PS...now i know how "Slim Shady" feels

We shoot...we score !

Well it took more than 20 years, but it looks like Ronald Reagan's 'Star Wars' program finally actually did something, sort of.

What I'm Reading - Disappearances - Howard Frank Mosher

"Disappearances chronicles the efforts of Wild Bill Bonhomme and his larger-than-life father, Quebec Bill, to save the family farm. Desperate to raise money to preserve his endangered cattle herd at the end of a long winter, Quebec Bill resorts to the high-stakes world of whiskey smuggling, a traditional family occupation along the Vermont-Canada border in 1932. On an epic journey through the wilderness, the father and son encounter a cast of wild characters — and live out magical escapades as they carve their way into legend."

I still can't exactly tell if the towns in the story are made up or not...but all of his books have been great. They really put you in touch with a different way of life.

Where Eagle's Fish

when we were up at Cedar lake last weekend we saw an amazing site. Turns out, we must have a local bald eagle in the area. Early in the afternoon this huge bird starting flying back and forth about 15 feet of the surface of the lake (long since frozen). Turns out, it was waiting for the guys to move out of the way who were ice fishing in a few spots out there. As soon as they moved to a different hole in the ice, the bird would hop over to the hole...waiting for a fish to jump out perhaps ? Not sure if he ever got one, but it was pretty cool to think about how the bird learned to be that patient and comfortable with humans and develop a symbiotic relationship with the fisherman. I'm interested to see if it sticks around after the ice melts and fishing is dramatically easier for all of us. - TK

Feb Column - Hearth Health

"I’ve been in blue-collar living rooms and shirt and tie boardrooms where men have complemented and ridiculed each other about the condition of their woodpiles."