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  Well lunch was good but also an adventure. Not good or bad...just there. Menu: Smoked Sausage Carrots Green Beans with onion, bacon, a tiny bit of brown sugar.  I just sliced the sausage down the middle so it would open up naturally with grease, I mean juices. 😀  I put it on parchment paper on my small baking sheet, the one I use for practically everything. And put it under the broiler. It was in there about 5 minutes & I looked at it & it was smoking & the paper was turning black. I pulled it out before there was a fire. But the smoke alarm did go off. I got it off 1st time though. Meanwhile, back at the stove top, the green beans,bacon,onion, butter combo got just a little overdone as I was dealing with the smoke alarm. My carrots did not realize anything was going on & were just  boiling away, minding their own business. The beans were a little charred but not completely burned. Carrots are a favorite so they are always good. Sausage was perfect...

  Back   in November I bought a new Nissan Rogue & decided I needed a road trip.  I didn't have anywhere in particular so I decided I'd go to Rotan where my granddad was buried in the Grady cemetery.  His name was Lon & he died in a fire in 1924. My dad was 10, 2nd oldest. Uncle Raymond was 12 & there were 4 kids under them. For some reason, my granny always said she never wanted to go to Rotan again so after being a widow for 61 years, when she passed she was buried in Spur in our family plot. It always bothered me that my granddad was buried alone.  The cemetery is just is quite away out in the country. Grady had been a community but like too many it has dried up. No one has maintained the cemetery since 1993. It is covered with weeds. I did find his grave & he had family buried around him including his dad & both of his wives, both named Martha. My granny went by Annie but her 1st name was Martha too. I left a flower on his grave. When I w...

And last night, continuing my own concert tour... At the historic Cactus Theater it was Bellamy Brothers time! I had seen them one other time in the old Lubbock Coliseum, better known as the Bubble.  They had actually been the opening act for the Oak Ridge Boys, many years ago. Funny, I just now remembered that I'd seen them before as I'm writing this. Weird. Howard & David have been performing for 45 years according to their introduction announcement. They are just good old boys making good old music. And they still sounded perfect. They sang for an hour & a half & covered every song of theirs I'd ever heard. I love their music!! 😍  The evening was delightful. They had an opening guy named Robert Sullivan who is with an Odessa band called Westbound Hearts. The entire band was there & supposed to perform but they could not all fit on the stage with all of BB gear.  Robert looks about 21 & had a great voice, covering a 90s "classic" country, pr...

Last week, I went to the Buddy Holly Hall to see 2 of my favorite bands from the 70s bands. LRB was on it's 50th anniversary tour & the Dogs have been touring since 1968! There are no original members of course in LRB & 1 original Dog there since the beginning.  Both have young energetic bands behind them to keep the music going on & on. LRB had good voices & they knew all the words to the songs but it was not quite the same.  I wonder sometimes why they choose to go with a legendary band name & music catalog instead of doing their own thing. We oldies want to hear the familiar songs of the band. They did a couple of their own songs too but the response was lukewarm because we were there to see LRB. Three Dog Night's original member Danny Hutton is about 85 & still has a strong voice & his younger back ups were really good. The sound was great, good pace, amazing lighting. I hoped that LRB's lighting guy was paying attention. It was an tight show...