fenceI’m here only tentatively. Peeking shyly from around the corner. Trying to build up the courage to join the crowd in the center of the dance floor doing the Soulja Boy or whatever the kids are doing in the center of the dance floor these days.

Reminds me of Junior High School dances.

I’m not being coy. I’m not being melodramatic. Or at least I don’t think so. I’ve never been very sensitive to my own melodramatics, which is why I’ve been tagged as a ‘drama queen’ more than once in my days. I am probably being a little bit paranoid. But, as one of my musical idols used to howl,  just because you’re paranoid don’t mean they’re not after you.

Actually, as the ever wise esthetician and blogger Formerly Fun points out, they probably aren’t. I’m not going to get into the events that transpired to freak me out . But they were independent events, not a pattern. Most likely one of them, whaddayacallem, statistical aberrations.

digger1I still don’t know if I’m comfortable. I’ve gone over a dozen permutations in my head. Make the blog private. Start a new private blog and keep this one public. Start a ‘family blog’ and then a new private one. And on. And on. I don’t know. But I am a lazy man and, thus, innately resistant to change. And I do know that I like blogging. I like writing and I like the feedback. I like a lot of the connections I’ve made.

I don’t know what I’m going to do for the long run. But I’ve got a post about crystal meth just itching to get written and I guess we’ll go from there.

So here I am, peeking around the doorway. Saying nothing. Blogging about blogging.

What then, really, was the point?

But here are some photos from the Meadows Country Fair, where we spent part of the weekend. I became obsessed with the yard dog trials – now my second favorite Australian sport. I’m thinking of buying a sheep. And maybe a new dog. I’m pretty sure yard dogs don’t tolerate hugs.

sheep1

yarddog

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driving

hugs

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I’ve had this Del McCoury, Doc Watson and Mac Wiseman cover of the Bill Monroe song rattling aroun my head for the last couple of days. I picked up their 1998 collaboration, “Del, Doc and Mac”, several years ago now but I’ve only recently come to really love it. Three bluegrass giants, playing off one another. As good as it gets.

“Del, Doc and Mac” is available from Mac Wiseman, Doc Watson, Del McCoury - Mac, Doc, & Del. A must for bluegrass fans.

 
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