Well, golly….. the boys of IIIrd Tyme Out liked my meatballs so much they talked about them onstage! HAHAHAHA….
Well, I’m glad they had a good time… we had such a wonderful time, it was a great night and I’m still floating in my bluegrass adrenalin rush!!! I’ll write more later… but in the meanwhile… enjoy this clip, hot off the videocam!!!
And just maybe… in a little bit… I’ll post my SUPER complicated recipe for these little delightful bits of sweet BBQ goodness! Though, it is a old family recipe… hmmmmm…..
This fine collection of bluegrass gentlemen are going to be our guests tomorrow night at our venue…. the Glass City Opry.
I’m up tonight making a lovely pasta salad and these devilishly yummy little sweet BBQ meatballs for them.
I really don’t think I will sleep tonight.
They are 7 time IBMA Bluegrass Band of the Year winners as well as like a bazillion other wonderful awards and acolates… it almost didn’t all fit on the flyers that I made up for them awhile back! These guys are like the high court of royalty for our music!
I’m so nervous and excited! This is really a big deal for our little ol’ Opry house…
Listen to these boys sing….
Gosh. Well… it’s tomorrow evening. No turning back now! Been getting lots of phone calls and emails… it’s getting exciting.
Kinda cool that this is our 24th show. Our last show of the year… we start back up in August into our 3rd year of monthly shows. That is quite an accomplishment, really. I’me very proud of all we have accomplished and on a shoe string really. The rest of the year is already lined up and it’s got some great shows planned…. New Found Road, Michael Cleveland and Flamekeeper, David Davis and the Warrior River Boys… Dale Ann Bradley…. I can not imagine what 2010 is gonna look like!
I think I’m going to be making a lot of salad and meatballs in the coming months! (hahaha) It’s going to be a super fun evening… I hope I make it through without needing to be darted by a tranquilzier gun or anything… shesh! I might be a nervous wreck by tomorrow evening! Wish us luck!!!
JUST A LITTLE NOTE HERE:
If you just read that and thought, well, heck, their just some boys from Georgia… playing hill billy music. Let me set ya straight on this. Imagine, if you will, that you like oh, Classic Rock and Roll…. and the Rolling Stones were coming to your place. (g) Or oh pop music and like ah, Madonna was making a pit stop to come and sing for you. Maybe you like Irish or Celtic Music? These guys are the equivalent of say, oh Boys of the Lough or maybe the Chieftains! It’s like being into classical and oh Rachmaninoff is coming by to play and eat your pasta salad and BBQ meatballs. (Okay, yeah, wrong time frame and all, and he’s dead, but still, work with me here… hahaha)
It’s a BIG DEAL for us!!!!!! A WHOPPING BIG DEAL!!!!
Ahem. Just wanted to make sure everyone understood why I can’t hardly sleep tonight!
I suppose that some of you all might be wondering what do I do?
You know, as a living?
I’m not totally sure yet.. but I’ve been told I’m doing pretty well as an internet entrepreneur. I am a graphic artist by trade… and have several dozen websites and have created a full range of homeschool and bluegrass music products as well as rocks and mineral kits that my elder daughter makes. I am a working musician… I actually get paid to play the banjo and am working on songwriting and music production through a national venue that I own with a friend… the Glass City Opry. I am a homeschooling mom with a big old garden and all… I have graduated one kid successfully and am working on the last kid right now.
I do love my life… it’s always changing. It’s very flexible.. I do make my own hours and have time to spend with my girls and friends and such. Sometimes, I get to try new things or try new ideas and sometimes they don’t work, but sometimes they do. I do some work for clients, though I’m tending to stray away from that lately… it’s a lot of work and doesn’t seem to pay enough, really. My time is better invested in some of my various products which will sell over and over through the years. However, I love working for my friends and helping them, so most of my clients are my friends! (g)
I just am wrapping up a really nice site that I did for my pal Jerry. He used to be the mayor of this lovely little village, but now he’s a councilman… and a really awesome bluegrass bass player! (see the connection?)
One day I might be working on the Opry promotional materials. That’s primarily what I do for the Opry. I handle the press releases, maintain the website and blog, create the flyers and posters, send the newsletter out, and then also help the day of the show with making it all run smooth. Jeff handles all the booking of the talent, manages the theater connections, handles the backstage and lights and is the show MC and manager. Works out nice. We have a wonderful staff of volunteers that all help out and make the show a success.
I play music in a bluegrass band that my buddy Jeff and I started back in December of 2006… Deepwater Bluegrass. I love playing music with the guys… it’s the best thing around. Love singing and playing for the masses. Bringing bluegrass to the world!
We write a lot of songs… and started our own little BMI publishing company and production company for the music called Glass City Music. We have a cool website, well… it’s just the front page right now, but it’s going to be really cool as soon as I get it finished! (g) My own projects tend to get sidelined a little bit…
My homeschool products are primarily displayed at our main website… The Homeschool Shop. It’s a clearing house for our history and handwriting products as well as my daughter’s rocks and minerals.
That’s a picture I love of Jessy shipping some orders out…
And I’m a mobile home rehabber… an urban homesteader. I shop locally, made a lot of my own foods, am growing gardens, reusing, repurposing, recyclying and trying to live as simply as I can on a very small monthly budget. It’s not really a job, but it’s something I love doing.
That’s what my place looked like a year ago, almost to the day!
