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SD YouTube Vids SD Video: Alimony Blues by Sam Collins Foster – April 27, 2017 https://youtu.be/eLDPU1do0Q4 Full 1981 album. Read the backstory here. Read More SD YouTube Vids Memories Of Zagreb/Adriatic Dreams video Foster – April 25, 2017 Photo of Zagreb, Croatia by Marko Vrdoljak I'm a big fan of YouTube, spending some quality time on there every day... Read More Legacy Archive The Big Damn Deck project Foster – March 28, 2017 The Big Damn Deck Deck project - Phase Two A retrospective And so it begins: marks showing where to auger... Read More Legacy Archive Homesteading | Flooring the big room Foster – March 28, 2017 Mar 28, 2017 - My calendar indicates this is another red-letter day, only this time it doesn't involve a guitar.... Read More Legacy Archive Making a mini-garage under the big damn deck Foster – March 25, 2017 Doing some tweaking of last summer’s big damn deck project: sealing in the end to make a 10x10 mini-garage. I... Read More Legacy Archive Wood Stove Project Foster – March 14, 2017 First fire, March 8, 2013 The heart of any homestead is, of course, the wood stove. A source of heat,... Read More SD YouTube Vids ‘Memories Of Zagreb’ live at the Hobnob Foster – March 8, 2017 https://youtu.be/zszzgoOPjDo My friend, videographer Bill Graham, sneaked into my weekly Wine-down Wednesday gig at the Hobnob in Nashville, IN one... Read More Surf Log Teaching an old water boiler to cook Foster – March 7, 2017 One typically hesitates to mention one's own deficiencies, but in this product review I'll make an exception. Truth is... I never learned... Read More cooking, food, Hello Fresh, quality time Rants & Raves On the national debt Foster – January 31, 2017 Imagine it's 1913, and the fledgling Fed just printed its first federal reserve note and gave it to you, saying,... Read More Surf Log If you were an elephant … | Environment | The Guardian Foster – January 29, 2017 You’d be a communitarian. Relationality would be everything. It’s not that you couldn’t survive alone, although there would certainly be... Read More Rants & Raves Who of us volunteered for this? Foster – January 14, 2017 Recently, in support of central planning and big government, a FB acquaintance of mine (IOW, we are strangers who never met... Read More Jamming In General Who Invented the Electric Guitar? Foster – January 10, 2017 The names of Les Paul and Leo Fender grace many of the most famous electric guitars. Designed in the 1940s... Read More Rants & Raves No bad losers here Foster – December 25, 2016 So, according to Occupy Dems, we've one of two choices -- either get all "terrified" by the upcoming Trump presidency,... Read More Rants & Raves What would Solomon do? Foster – December 20, 2016 Today I find myself reminded of the old Bible story of King Solomon who, when two women came before him,... Read More Jamming In General Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas – vintage Foster Jones Foster – December 14, 2016 Scroll down to hear some vintage Foster Jones, with Frank Jones singing and Jeff Foster playing guitar, on a true Christmas... Read More Rants & Raves Why We Have The Electoral College Foster – December 13, 2016 Thanks to my friend John Franz for posting this. To my California friends and fellow Americans: Why We Have The... Read More Rants & Raves About this “temperament” thing Foster – December 8, 2016 I ran across a recent meme by Occupy Democrats (the which I will not present here, one can look it up... Read More Jamming In General Brown County Hour: The Foster Episode Foster – August 10, 2016 The Brown County Hour crew, 2015: David Seastrom, Pam Raider, Cari Ray, Vera Grubbs, Jeff Foster & Rick Fettig After... Read More Legacy Archive Broadband in the Boonies Foster – July 28, 2016 Now long outdated, this post provides a snapshot of our ISP options back in 2016. Vis-à-vis broadband internet in rural... Read More Jamming In General Tommy Emmanuel – Center Stage – YouTube Foster – July 24, 2016 The incomparable Tommy Emmanuel, probably the greatest living fingerstyle guitarist. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zf2wDIiF4js Read More « Previous 1 … 15 16 17 18 19 … 24 Next »

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