Writing A Blog

Usually when talking to people about all kinds of things, I seem to be able to hold my own  whether it is politics, weather or whatever...But when it comes to writing a blog  I sit here and wonder  what I should talk about...Sometimes, like today, I just start in and hope things start to jell...  Jell does make me think of the days when I made jelly...All growing season I would gather what I had growing in my garden..raspberries, loganberries,  strawberries,  Boysenberries and apples..  I got them ready for the  freezer  as I picked them...At the end of the  growing season I would take everything out of the freezer , put it in big  stainless bowl/basins...After all was thawed, the juice let loose so I squeezed it all  and started making the jelly..Being a mixed berry jelly was good as the above berries were strong enough flavored that I could  add a bit of water to stretch it out without taking away from the flavor..Oh yes, I had a few gooseberries  and red old fashioned currants that I added also.  Cooking all of it took a long time..I usually spent the whole day into the evening before I finished the project...Used to get 125 to 150 jars  i.e. some one third pint, half pint and pint jars..  It was so good...just juice, sugar and pectin....it possibly would have jelled without the pectin but after all the work  I didn't want to take any chances...  Everyone in the family  looked for their jars of jelly after it was all done...   You ask, what does this have to do with music?    Well, I was always a radio rambler  so  had the radio tuned in to good music  to listen to while I worked..It  seemed to make thiongs go along better...  You might ask why the apples...Well, apple juice adds juice  without  taking away the main flavor...Also I found that the apple helped clarify the jelly  because one of the marks of good jelly was to have it as clear as possible  and with apples, mine was....Those were good times...  Thanks for listening....

Quiet Shoes the Movie

Quiet  Shoes...the movie...is now available On Demand on CLICK  in the Tacoma, WA  area

Check it out..   Quiet uses my cut of Have You Ever Been  Lonely..    Also  two songs I wrote:  Yes, I'm Just  Looking   and Meet Me In Ponderay (written with Harvey Thomas)

MY SONGS

Just a reminder that some of the songs I have written or co-written are on my two cds...In The Beginning  Vol 1 and Vol 2.
All Of Our Dreams            Catch A Little Moonbeam           If Only I          See Me Through
What Lonliness Is           Meet Me In Ponderay           Soft Sand, Silver Stars          Tailgater
Still To Rock No More         Tell Me Honey           Wishing To Know       Yes, I'm Just Looking
You Know How It Feels To Cry

These songs are also available for your next recording project......Listen to them and think about what your interpretation would be...
Thanks for listening........