Via Ashley: Knitting Graffiti

I love it when people send me great things. Like this from Ashley:



Yarnbombing in Philadelphia. Love it.

Ear Candy: Loudon Wainwright III

Big thanks to Josh for getting me hooked on this song, and to Cotty for reminding me of its greatness:



yep. Time to start scouting Nelson County for the best place for a post-work swim.

Via Julia: Kombucha Nation

yesssss - Julia sent me this Kombucha discussion between Snacktime and Meatball from shutupfoodies.com::



Including the too true confession for which so many of us have shelled out $4.50: hippie drinks might just taste better in yuppie packaging.

Dream Travel: Trogir, Croatia

I could use some Adriatic coast and medieval streets in my life. Enter stage left - Trogir, Croatia:




Photos by Sandro Mancuso.

Trogir is an island connected to mainland Croatia via bridge, and has been a UNESCO world heritage site since 1997. Founded by Greek colonists, Trogir is packed with palaces, towers, and a well preserved castle - all of which are still enclosed by city's walls which were built in the 15th century.



Show me some cevapcici and raznjici with an oceanview - yesssss.

Today on the Farm

72 and sunny. Planted onions. Watered onions. Watered the seedlings in the hoop house.


Photo by Marcie Brooks-Smith

It's nice being on the mountainous side of Charlottesville now and watching the trees start to flower at the base of the mountains and continuing to move on up.

Mountain Music Museum

In July 1927 a fast-walking, smooth-talking man named Ralph Peer from the Victor Talking Machine Company showed up to the twin towns of Bristol, VA/TN to record some of the down-home musical goodness that people their were creating.

Was he really fast-walking and smooth-talking? I don't know. But if a movie were made of this moment in music history, he would be. So let's just bet on it.

In the two weeks that followed his arrival, he recorded a whole bunch of folks - The Stoneman Family, Jimmie Rodgers, and (wait for it...) The Carter Family.



The Bristol Sessions are a pretty big deal to country music historians, earning them the distinction of the Country Music Big Bang, and so on.

So what does this mean to us today? That we should go on and visit the Mountain Music Museum on a Thursday to celebrate country music in its birthplace.

Why on a Thursday? So that we can also go to catch the free bluegrass Pickin Porch Show on the Briston Mall afterwards. Schedule.

What does my Grandfather say about asking questions that you already know the answer to? That it's an obnoxious habit only obnoxious people divulge in. Right. Moving on.

The Bristol Sessions for keeps.

And Carlene Carter and friends performing Wildwood Rose:



Friends including Emmylou Harris. nbd.

Today on the Farm

Planted onions. Weeded the strawberries. Messed around with the sun oven:



uh huh, that's right. It's pretty much exactly what it sounds like: an oven that uses the sun for heat.

Just checked out a bread book from the library, and have big solar plans for that little box.