tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22697061894594444842024-02-19T14:41:44.401-08:00Making Wavesbeacherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11327729874637449635noreply@blogger.comBlogger36125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2269706189459444484.post-16734562090910527332020-12-23T21:32:00.004-08:002020-12-24T12:19:04.003-08:00The 10th Web Based. . ."Occasionally" Annual Salmon Beach BulletinSo it looks like Santa has had the same kind of year that the rest of us have had! I've been off from teaching since March 8th and am not at all happy about it; I actually shut down my lessons a week before the governor shut the store down! I've been winding down my teaching schedule for the last 8 years or so, and I'm down to. . . beacherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11327729874637449635noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2269706189459444484.post-3685900713102771592019-12-24T20:12:00.003-08:002020-12-23T18:31:08.047-08:00The 9th Web Based. . .
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Here we are, approaching my favorite time of year; decorations are starting to appear on peoples' homes and their kids are starting to get "wound up" for the coming holidays. It's hard to be cynical and wrapped up in politics, when you witness the simple innocence and joy that fills their young lives!
As I reflect back on this beacherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11327729874637449635noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2269706189459444484.post-41965423056753293882018-12-24T18:44:00.000-08:002018-12-24T18:44:54.181-08:00The 8th Web Based. . .
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Well, it's 30• outside, there's a fire in the wood stove and a cup of coffee sitting here beside me, so I decided to go ahead and see if I can't get this out to you guys before Christmas!
Before anything else, I really need to apologize to all of my friends who are veterans; I usually send out a note on Veterans' Day, thanking you all for beacherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11327729874637449635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2269706189459444484.post-63660044974982773412017-12-21T17:31:00.004-08:002017-12-22T18:36:09.338-08:00The 7th Web Based. . .
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Wow; my 2nd post of the year! I'm not sure whether I'm doing less, or the time is moving faster, but I'm really not happy to find myself at the end of yet another year, but I don't know what to do about it. No matter, I'm ecstatic to still be here, and in good health; hopefully, this wonderful season finds you all the same.
This beacherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11327729874637449635noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2269706189459444484.post-42574964162077174082017-04-17T18:46:00.002-07:002017-04-17T18:48:45.742-07:00First Adventure Of The Year!I'm not sure how long ago I stumbled across the Digital Photography School ( http://tinyurl.com/kujk54d ), a free web site that has an amazing amount of material that covers almost any kind of photography that you might be interested in (and for every level of expertise), but it's been years, and I'm still downloading articles that keep expanding my knowledge of my relatively new beacherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11327729874637449635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2269706189459444484.post-54219447241891184272016-12-20T21:20:00.003-08:002016-12-20T21:56:31.986-08:00The 6th Web Based. . .
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Congratulations, folks; we've made it through yet another year and another election cycle! Other than saying that it's been one of the most entertaining campaigns I've ever witnessed, I hope that we'll never see another like it, and no more politics will be included in this issue of The Bulletin!
This has been a great year, beacherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11327729874637449635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2269706189459444484.post-35706435302549943892015-12-20T20:30:00.000-08:002015-12-29T22:59:05.688-08:00The 5th Web Based. . .
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I've got to tell you, my friends, that this is the first year of my life that every day has been better than the one before, no matter what "niggling little things" may have gone wrong that particular day! (If you don't know why already, just look at the previous post, a fairly short one right below this one, before continuing on.) beacherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11327729874637449635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2269706189459444484.post-26367799220837910102015-09-06T19:27:00.000-07:002015-09-06T19:27:23.237-07:00The Journey. . .Many of you may have wondered, last year, why the "Occasionally Annual Salmon Beach Bulletin" ended with my return home from Arizona, at the end of April, so I guess that it's time to let you in on something that I've been playing fairly close to the vest. I really had no intention of writing this, but I've been chastised pretty severely by a couple of friends who I recently told. Thebeacherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11327729874637449635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2269706189459444484.post-59562240364906932562014-12-13T15:13:00.000-08:002014-12-13T15:15:31.942-08:00The 4th Web Based . . .
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finds me sitting here and thinking how lucky we are to inhabit this beautiful world, and how, hopefully, this most wonderful time of year will find us all celebrating another year filled with family, friends and the joy of Life and love.
At the end of last year, I stepped up to a wonderful new camera, a Sony A77, which I quickly learned was beacherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11327729874637449635noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2269706189459444484.post-60996808535044697662013-12-20T13:14:00.000-08:002013-12-21T22:35:48.863-08:00The 3rd Web Based. . .
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finds me in kind of a strange mental space. Although I usually love this time of year, with the bright lights and all of the festivities, and all the folks running around desperately trying to figure out what special gift they can find for their loved ones, I'm inexplicably finding myself feeling kind of "blah" about the whole thing.&beacherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11327729874637449635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2269706189459444484.post-1884134064813773912013-05-25T23:19:00.000-07:002013-05-25T23:19:09.040-07:00Pickin' at a scab. . .I've been feeling like I wanted to get back to writing for awhile now, but I've been so pissed off at what's going on in the world, for almost a year now, that I just didn't want to lay it out there for people to read, but that itch. . . So, I'm going to scratch it, but there is going to be no politics tonight, my friends!
The last 2 nights, I've been "falling in love" with an artist that I'd beacherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11327729874637449635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2269706189459444484.post-28835777006109925842012-12-19T20:03:00.002-08:002012-12-20T12:40:34.059-08:00The 2nd Web Based. . .
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Let me start this off the same way that I did a year ago, by wishing you all a "Merry Christmas" and a "Happy New Year", and tell you that despite the supposed recovery in the economy, my student "load" of 6 is exactly the same as it was a year ago, so once again, I'm "scrooging", but this means that beacherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11327729874637449635noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2269706189459444484.post-89606909959686797182012-12-07T10:08:00.001-08:002012-12-19T20:58:47.823-08:00I'm baaaaaack!It's been 5 months since my last post, and I'm going to try and get back to posting weekly with some new musical treats for you, my "usual" political comments, and whatever else I find interesting or think that you might enjoy.
I pretty much abandoned the blog to immerse myself in remodeling the back half of the 1st floor of my house, but despite the fact that Democrats and Republicans spent $2 beacherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11327729874637449635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2269706189459444484.post-27119621167657266342012-07-30T19:10:00.000-07:002012-07-30T19:11:21.599-07:00I got this email, today. . .and since I'm up to my eyeballs in revamping the house, I'm just going to post this, and hope that you'll copy it, and send it on to your friends:
" This should be on the front page of every newspaper.
&beacherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11327729874637449635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2269706189459444484.post-11082588019563409912012-07-10T13:36:00.001-07:002012-07-10T14:49:41.847-07:00It's been awhile. . .since I last posted, and I thought that I'd be able to get back to the posting every couple of weeks, but I've been swamped with work. I thought I had 4 "little" projects lined up for the summer, but that changed when my refrigerator died about 3 weeks ago. I tore out the door trim, the baseboards, and the wall switch, so I could get it out of the little alcove in which it resided, beacherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11327729874637449635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2269706189459444484.post-26514426891148126232012-06-03T17:07:00.001-07:002012-06-03T17:07:39.497-07:00We have OFFICIALLY. . .entered the "Silly Season", a 5 month stretch in which we will be treated, non-stop, to exaggerations, distortions, promises, and now, due to the "Super Pacs", flat out lies, about the candidates and their positions and actions. Keep in mind, as the election season progresses, that the Supreme Court, in all their munificent wisdom, have declared lies to be "freedom of speech"! And, beacherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11327729874637449635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2269706189459444484.post-11071819885571332142012-05-20T16:46:00.002-07:002012-05-20T16:46:38.634-07:00A follow up. . .I had thought to wait for 3 or 4 months to let the feeling of loss fade, from losing Kassie, but the other cat, a "round head" Siamese named Bella, that had been "joined to the hip" with her since before I got her, seems to just be lost without her. Last week, I stopped by the local Humane Society and Petco, to see what they had to offer, but didn't see any cats or kittens that were beacherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11327729874637449635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2269706189459444484.post-31831438022597882202012-04-29T18:29:00.001-07:002012-04-29T18:29:12.411-07:00Another departure from the usual. . .I'm sorry, guys; I don't have the heart for a "political diatribe" today; not that I don't have the material, but I think I'll save that for next week.
For those of you who actually know me, you are aware how much I love animals. There seem to be "dog people", and there are "cat people", and then there are folk like myself who just love animals! In my adult life, I've had, beacherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11327729874637449635noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2269706189459444484.post-73282723670960083692012-04-22T23:27:00.001-07:002012-04-22T23:42:52.910-07:00Arrrrrrggggg! As the weather. . .gets nicer and nicer, I'm finding it's harder and harder to stay inside and work at the computer; if I was one of those folk who plan ahead, I might not find myself wishing I was out on the motorcycle!
Luckily, with the "silly season" (oh God, there's still 6 months left before the election!) fully upon us, finding things to chuckle at is no problem, and if there were no ramifications attached beacherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11327729874637449635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2269706189459444484.post-32355461058282254022012-04-15T17:47:00.000-07:002012-04-15T17:47:51.310-07:00It's Spring and. . .the sun is starting to stick around to tempt us all into the outside world; working in the gardens, riding motorcycles and walking in the woods are starting to become more and more attractive! The problem with this is that most of us would rather be outside than inside, in front of a computer ferreting out news, which makes it much easier for the the politicians to slip things past us. beacherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11327729874637449635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2269706189459444484.post-8223294946926517532012-04-08T14:50:00.001-07:002012-04-08T14:50:43.269-07:00They just never change. . .I apologize for not getting something up, last Monday, but the audio-visual project that I was involved in, all of a sudden developed a serious need to be wrapped up and gotten into the mail. Once done with that I developed a bad case "Screw it!", and just relaxed for a couple of days. And then I started to pay attention to what was going on in our world, and found that I had a beacherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11327729874637449635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2269706189459444484.post-53531901128787282052012-03-26T10:58:00.001-07:002012-03-26T10:58:42.991-07:00I've been involved. . . with an audio-visual production that's taking up waaaaaay more time than I thought it would, and I've gained an amazing amount of respect for people that do this for a living!
I've also learned that if you have any old photos that you value, and you're intending on digitizing them, that the sooner you get to it, the better results you're going to have. "Back in the day", when I was beacherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11327729874637449635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2269706189459444484.post-29028329900065362392012-03-19T11:20:00.002-07:002015-02-28T12:54:06.719-08:00A "hard left" from the usual. . ."Girls", no matter what age, are the most wonderful of God's creations, at least to most of my gender! No doubt about it, these mysterious and magical creatures are capable of bestowing great happiness, or inflicting immense pain on us; inspiring us to heights that we didn't realize we were capable of achieving, or plunging us to depths that we didn't know existed, and the best of them seembeacherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11327729874637449635noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2269706189459444484.post-6724665706649759812012-03-12T11:45:00.002-07:002012-03-12T11:58:09.127-07:00I can't believe I did it!Before I get into "it", here's a treat for your ears: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgmHkSED2cY Jonell Mosser is an incredible talent, who sings some wicked blues. I became acquainted with her work through a demo album called, "Around Townes", a cover album of Townes Van Zandt's work, that she did back in 1996. A couple of years ago, I discovered a video on youtube,beacherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11327729874637449635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2269706189459444484.post-78669518590607294692012-03-04T20:11:00.003-08:002012-03-04T23:16:56.386-08:00Forget 2012; 2013 is LOOMING!There has been a lot of talk, over the last 37 years (that I have been aware of, although the intensity of the talk has greatly increased lately!), about the upcoming date of December 21st, 2012, and the end of the Mayan calendar, and what it means for both man and the earth (google it; either the date or the calendar). Should the cataclysmic event happen, and nobody seems to know what thatbeacherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11327729874637449635noreply@blogger.com0