A Night at the Opry

Posted on by May 20, 2009

Friday Night was Glass City Opry Night…

And being that I’m one of the owners of the venue… it is always fun and a pleasure to be involved in bringing regular bluegrass concerts to the Northwestern corner of Ohio…

Tonight was a great group from Tennessee and Kentucky… the Cumberland Gap Connection and boy, did they entertain!  What a nice group of guys… we’ll be glad to have them back again.

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They sure put on a great show and we enjoying having them there!

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The Maumee Indoor Theater is home to the Opry and we simply adore this location.  We will be here as long as we can keep the Opry going.  We’re heading into our third year this August… it’s very hard work and has cost us a good deal of money, but we’re finally starting to see a leveling out for our efforts and that is very exciting.  We may never see our investment returned, but right now we’re just excited to see it holding it’s own and all.  It’s such a lovely theater and it’s such a nice place to play and experience live bluegrass music.

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The Clark Brothers and North City Grass opened up the night and we are always pleased to have them at the Opry.  This is their second time and it was nice to see them have their new CD to sell to the fans.   By the looks of it, they did pretty nicely…  the fans always appreciate having the local bands get a chance to show off at the Opry.

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Our staff photographer, Erin Kilburn, she just had her little beautiful baby girl two days before so I got to fill in for the night.  I borrowed Jessy’s fancy camera and had a good time… I shot 300 pictures!!!   So many turn out blurry because we don’t like to shoot with flash, but there are always a few good shots… I like this one because of the action in it…  fun show.  Clark Brothers are always entertaining, that is for sure.

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Here we are… the sound staff, Jeff and I and the main band.   We forget to take shots with these national bands… and we’re going to try and remember to do so… just for fun I guess… part of the whole scrapbooking affair of the history of our show.  I kind of realized that I’m not in a lot of pictures and even though I’m a little funny about that, I think I need to get in them more…  after all, it’s part of my history as well…  and I want to be able to look back some day and say, hey, I was there…  and here’s the proof!  HAHA…

All in all… it’s always a delight to have a day at the Glass City Opry…

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Last Bed Planted

Posted on by May 15, 2009

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Jessy and I planted the last raised bed today.

Tomatoes, peppers, cukes, califlower and a couple heads of cabbage.

I want to get a couple more pepper plants and some broccolli, but there wasn’t the type of starts I wanted at the store, so we just left a little space.

The cuke resting frame from the headboard has to be constructed, but I’ll do that in a day or three.  (haha)

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My Garden Crib

Posted on by May 15, 2009

Okay… here’s why I was so excited about the crib!  I’m going to use the sides in my garden for my beans and my peas!!!   It will look good, support them and it was free!  I’d like another one too… I’ll be keeping my eye out for one.   The headboard I’m going to use as a cucumber slanted bed…  something the vines can lay on and around and the cukes can hang down through the slates and such.   (I saw one at Gardener’s Supply but it was metal and cost like $50!  Mine is freeee!!!)

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First I got these long skinny fiberglass poles at the Tractor Supply Store.   A mere $1 each.   They are pretty long.   We hammered them down deep to give the slat side a good place to anchor to.

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Then we dug out the bed a bit to lower the slat side into the dirt, to help anchor it good.

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Then we used a couple sturdy little tie wraps to attach the sides to the poles. Just a good couple here and there.  Tie wraps are just awesome….  handy little dudes, no doubt.

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Now once the peas and beans start growing up this… I might take a little copper wire and weave it in and through the slats here and there to give a little something extra for the pea tendrils to grab ahold of.  But then if they do a good job climbing up on their own… I might just let them be!  I think it looks neat… and it’s re-purposing, which I like… and I think it looks nicer than say just a piece of wirefence and all.   We’ll have to see how it works through the season and all.

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Jack the cat approves of this new project here at the moby homestead….

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