Shwmae My Fellow Travelers!

That's Welsh for Hello! It's pronounced "shoe-my"... If you've got any extra time you might have some fun on Wikipedia learning about the Welsh language. MAN, it's twisted, but very interesting. My people come from Wales. A bunch of red-headed/bearded beer drinkers! Sheep people. Wool. Mutton.

Ummmmm...OH! How was your summer? I saw a few of you at Wheatland last weekend! I think we can safely assess that summer is waning. Last Tuesday it was 95 degrees in my yard on the lake and the next day it was 63! It's been in the 60's since then. And when it rains it doesn't smell like grass and steamy pavement outside, it smells like cold dirt and dead leaves. The corn fields have turned to gold and there's only one more festival I have left in the season... The Harvest Gathering! I think that means that there'll be no more barefoot trips out to the car at midnight to get the cooler I forgot about when I got home 4 hours earlier. Gone are the days of listening to the crickets chirp through the open bedroom window all night long. Soon there will be long shadows in mid day and Dark-Eyed Juncos leaving twin pairs of tiny, leaping birdie feet in the snow on my back porch.... I can already foresee a mid-winter retreat to Uncle Joe's house in Miami! Please don't misread me, I lov
e winter! But summer has a way of pulling the rug out from under you while you've still got on sandy foot on it. Maybe that's why they call it "fall"? HAH!

Maybe some of you will be able to postpone shampooing the carpet before you shut up for the winter and come down and see me. There'll be a few opportunities this month....


9/12/08 - Friday 7pm
GOSHEN, IN
LVD'S Concert Hall
The Old Bag Factory
1100 Chicago Ave.
with Shout Sister Shout!
574-825-7785
http://www.lvds.info/

9/13/08 - Saturday 8:30pm
KALAMAZOO, MI
Webster's
in the Radisson Hotel
100 West Michigan Avenue
(269) 343-3333
http://www.radisson.com/kalamazoomi

9/19/08 - Friday 6pm
CADILLAC, MI
The Shay Station
106 S. Mitchell St.
231-775-6150
http://www.shaystation.com

9/21/08 - Sunday 5pm
LAKE CITY, MI
The Earthwork Harvest Gathering
4399 N. 7 mile Rd.
http://www.roughdraftdesigns.com/harvestgathering/

9/27/08 - Saturday 8pm
DENVER, CO
Swallow Hill Music Association
Daniels Hall
71 East Yale Avenue
with Shout Sister Shout
(877) 214-7013
http://www.swallowhill.com/

9/28/08 - Sunday 2pm
DENVER, CO
Swallow Hill Music School
BANJO BALLADS WORKSHOP!
71 East Yale Avenue
(877) 214-7013
http://www.swallowhill.com/

Bring your banjo and a retro thermos full of hot, green tea and come see me! I hope to see you soon!

Rach!