Bluegrass Festival 2013

We are ready to hit the road for the Annual

53 Annual Topanga Banjo-Fiddle Contest 
and Folk Festival it has been going on since 1961 . Pa competed prior to falling madly in love with me!

Now since Ma moved in our time together is far and very few between. We made plans for this date and it turned out so nice

The tree are people lined with chairs and instruments. There was not a corner you would turn with out a boing or a twang going on!

Banjo - Fiddle - Mandolin - Guitar - Big Standing Bass - Spoon things- Bucket upside down with a string attached.

It was endless and So MUCH FUN !

Here we find a young lady who brought her own piece of wood to clog on. Really?

Amazing stuff and foot tapping. I drew up a bit of dust as I tried to copy her Pa pulled me away -fast

There was a pavilion dedicated to the second owner of the
Blue Ridge Pickin Parlor in Granada Hills, California. He was Frank Jevorsek. Not the first and not the last owner. This Parlor is still in business and thriving.

In the Western streets of Paramount Ranch, small clusters of hot pickers and fiddlers, and youngsters strumming alongside professionals and surrounded by many delighted spectators, can meet and swap songs, strums and licks.

 



Spinners making yarn

More Jammin

This vendor had my heart being a quilter !

Ok this guy is to cute!

Uni-brow Alert

The Jug ?

Ok so he had a partner but the song they sang was so Good!

Pa's banjo instructor is the man far left! Bill

Then on the way to the car I saw Jug Boy.

WOOT WOOT . I do say there are so many young people at this festival and kids galore

Mothers Day

I have been so busy in the garden I have forgotten about this lil blog! Oh My!

Well Mama's Day was nice and all the Mama's sat on their ass's and did na-da

Pa's ma came over and they look like twins ya think?

I think this year the thing that made the difference was that we did nothing. Just sat around giggling and enjoying the day.

My baybay came down from Oakland for 5 day's It was daughter heaven

How cute are these precious children!

My Babies

All Three of my babies

Three generations

Grama and Baby Josh

Lulu

My Hood , horses and butterflies

 This is why I love my neighborhood. The other day a gang of horse peeps' rode by the house. We live in an area that is equestrian and it seems that people in this areas are kinder. No offense to you all in the depth of the Valley but this is the best place to live in our area.

During the Holiday we have a parade and people decorate everything from there horses to their boats with holiday cheers and ride up and down our streets singing and making merry! 

We also just had a couple of Butterfly weekend's. One was at our main arena and the other and our butterfly Queen's home.

 It is so nice to see people here and across the country trying to save our Eco-system.  I learned a lot. I bought some flowers for the butterflies. If I could get the night Bunnies to stop eating my flowers. Oh so yummy. Ass-hopper. Seriously they come out a night and eat the flowers because I have the vegetables netted.

I do love when people get hobbies and want to save thing's but there is a fine line between hobby and obsession. 

May the Force be with you Pass the tea

I tell you I can not believe that I do not post more often. Perhaps it is because I post to the other blogs with information. I use to be so out there. I realize something when I was driving to the Church Tea yesterday I do not take pictures like I use to.



I realize that the last ones I took for personal reasons was at the hospital when Casey was sick. Two weeks later I lost her. Well the whole family lost her.

I have gone to many an event. had many an opportunity to snap pictures but it just has not grabbed me. I wish I knew what my block was?


I have gotten back into doing stuff. I am doing limited gardening, preserving and general thing's. Mama lives here as you know that is a pain in the ass. BUT in the end I will be happy to have had the time with her.  I notice she is sick a lot lately. Her hearing is shot with the head cold she has. My being sick did not help much either.

I suppose that I should not complain but , but , but. I am was the forever optimist yup WAS I use to never let things get me down. Always a smile and positive attitude why people use to compliment me on it!  But in the last year 2 years I have thrown the positive out the window. Now the challenge is to find it and get it back. I have a big yard so it could have fallen anywhere.

You can read all the self help books in the world. Saturday I went to a church tea. The woman who was talking was a Happiness guru. Her name was Darlene Mininni by the way she has not updated her blog in a year. Hum that does not make me happy!

So I was thinking after attending the Happy Tea. I do all the thing;'s this "Dr" was talking about thus shy buy the book. But the women who did buy it made me happy. It also made me take  a long look at who I use to be!

I do the following thing's daily:

Write in my journal
Keep in to Today!
(If you have one foot in yesterday and one in tomorrow how the hell are you enjoying todya?)
Write a gratitude list at least once a week-ish
Have a 5 year happy plan
Breath in and count out
Breath in Faith breathe out Fear

And the list really does go on BUT let's keep in mind that these seminar, tea's and ego buster's are only as good as we make them. These type's of seminar's and talks will last about 7 to 10 day's and then we will go back to our normal thinking. This is a fact unless you were born this way or do the suggested action it is not going to work.

So I am going to try to get back to my Normal hummm  and can someone tell me where the Blue Monkey is?

Getting outside and

Great my Mama got the cold from Hell and to top that off so did Pa (hubby). No joke look at the picture of me. Talk about what the hell! God Dammit

I tried with all my might to stay away from them both. I slept on the couch, I made food wearing surgical gloves, honestly i literally ignored them for two weeks. How they survived I will never know. God Knows how fricken important I am.

But on the bright side I have to get out in the yard today. I was waiting until I felt like to sweat would not be a 103 fever. Seriously the cold from hell scared the shit out of me.

I have a ton of work to do on the computer with garden, cooking, preserving etc. It is time consuming but I do it ever morning and then go on with my day.  





Heather will be down for 5 days. Count them FIVE days. It is like I am going on vacation when she comes I get so excited! She will be able to cut grandma's hair again.They get goofy!

Pa rebuilt one of my favorite benches. Looks good

Oh Oh look at my new Patio by thew barn. The  complete story is on the gardening blog. I was able to re-use all the wood and the concrete. I rock!