Hello Buffalo & Mars 2/26/26 We are renting a house these days and we inherited a sweet old ginger cat named Bobbi. He has lived here for maybe 6 or

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The Great Wave – 2/9/26 My favorite artist is Winslow Homer, whose marine paintings often depict the north Atlantic hammering the rocky coast of Maine. Through that lens, the marine

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Whoopee Pie Happy New Year 2026! We visited the La Paz and the Botos waterfalls yesterday (New Years Day 2026). They are both an hour or so from our house

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Short As Any Dream – 10/20/25 I wanted to get a real guitar stand, a nice stool with a footrest, a little table for my recording gear such as it

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Cladiddlehopper’s Mower Repair 10/4/25 This song is a bit of a favorite, there is a version I recorded and posted here a few years ago where I probably go into

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Every Day Is Christmas Around Here I was getting crabby trying to get another piece knocked into shape, this one 2 bar phrase was impossible to get right. So I

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Chris’ NPR TinyDesk Competition Videos, 2022 – 25 I have dutifully entered the NPR Tiny Desk contest every year since my good friend Pete said I should look into it,

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Independence Day – Atenas September 15, 2025 was Independence Day here in Atenas, Costa Rica. There was a big parade lasting almost 2 hours around the central park and Parraquia

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Frenchman’s Bend – 9/6/25 I have been practicing this piece for a couple weeks now and finally have a decent handle on it. There are a couple small clams in

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