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On saturday, Teressa and I went to Cape Lookout on the Oregon coast just south of Tillamook. It is a 2.4 mile hike (one way, and you had to go back) to get to the end of a huge land mass that juts about 2.5 miles out into the ocean. It was grey and rainy when we got there, and within minutes cleared to a beautiful day.
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If of thy mortal goods thou are bereft
And from thy slender store
Two loaves alone to thee are left
Sell one and with the dole
Buy a hibiscus to feed thy soul.

-still don’t know the author (from Gulistan: Garden of Roses?), and there is a chance the original referred to a hyacinth, but my grandfather always said hibiscus. So that’s what it is.

This is the most recent Pedemont tune I have recorded. I wrote it years ago. Like 4 or so. And have tried to record it a few times. This is the most succesful, or at least finished, yet.

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I am making an electric upright bass out of a vintage suitcase. It will be a beautiful blues machine with a real 3/4 sized upright neck attached to the suitcase. I have two soap-bar bass pick-ups for it, am customizing a floating bridge and shaping my own fretless finger board. I am cutting f-holes into the front, etching brass for the control plate, jack plate, and a peice on the back of the neck where it attaches to the body. The body has a structure inside to beef up the strength. So basically it is a neck-through electric bass with a big box for a body… read more…..>

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