Blame it on the Train (+playlist)

songs about rain (+playlist)

More Than A Name On a Wall (+playlist)

Oh Danny Boy
Here is a link to my first version of the traditional song: Oh Danny Boy:  https://soundcloud.com/#noradearborn/danny-boy

I am working with a singing coach and will do another after I've worked on it.  I continue to have issues with conjestion and am researching natural remedies for this.  Would love to have feedback on the song positive or negative.  Be Well..

Violence Real or Imagined, Is There a DIfference?

Well we may get snow tonight, doing a snow dance in my mind so that school will be cancelled tomorrow (O:  Because of all the furor over President Obama's proposed gun control legislation I have been wondering again about how much television and video games may contribute to the issue.  I have read that the brain can not distinguish between what is real and what is well visualized.  If this is true it would stand to reason that if we partiicipate in imagined violence it might cause people who are already unstable  more prone to act out in reality.  I have to go chop cabbage, and various brightly colored produce to make a soup to have with homemade bread.  Here is a simple no knead recipe:

2 C whole wheat flour
1C all purpose flour
2 tsp salt
1 1/2 tsp yeast
1 3/4 C water
Mix all dry ingredients
add water and stir till mixed. Dough will be almost batter like.  Add more water if too dry.
I have added various herbs to this recipe, cinamon, coconut, cranberries and molasses, try different combinations.  You can also add a cup of oats or some other proofed (soaked in water) grain

After mixing I put the dough into greased loaf pans and let rise for 2 hrs in a warm place. 

Preheat Oven to 350
You can brush top of bread with olive oil if you want and dust with corn meal.
 bake for about 45 min. or ntil the bread sounds hollow when tapped.


THINK SNOW!

December 9, 2012                                                                                 7:12 pm

 

This is a copy of my Christmas letter, thought I would post it hear so that I can come back an look at it years from now.  No one else reads this so why not !!!

It is Sunday night, the 9^th.  Uncommonly warm here this past week.  I just picked my broccoli and several cabbages. I also have beets and turnips growing.  Beets aren’t doing much though.  Today I made a vegetable soup with fresh potatoes, sweet potatoes, broccoli and green beans, peppers and tomato puree from the freezer, all from the garden.   Also made a broccoli coleslaw, regular salad and apple crisp.  I usually cook a lot on Sunday to avoid it for the first few  days of the  work week.  We have planted blueberries, blackberries, grapes and two kiwi bushes, a mulberry tree, two apple trees and a fig.  We do not have enough time to tend them as we should so I don’t know if we will ever get a harvest.  The weeds around here are monsters and grow faster than anything!!!!!

John has been very fortunate to find a steady job about ten minutes from the house.  It is a remodel of a foreclosure that the owners want to make into a bed and breakfast.    He has been there for several months and there is still a great deal of work to do and the owner has other jobs for him when this one is finished.  In today’s economy we are so thankful that he has steady work. 

John’s son, Tucker is taller than his father.  John made a stick that is nailed up next to the door in Tucker’s room.  The same stick was at the house John rented in Pinnacle before we moved here.  The first mark is from October 2002.  Tucker was not quite 3 years old.  This past weekend when he was here, John measured him and he is now taller than his father.  He is a freshman in high school and doing great.  He is in AG classes and participates in Art Club.  He still does not like fishing, but that’s ok (O:   

 Last year we got a greenhouse frame from a friend of mine and we have that set up and are hoping to have it put together and ready to use for next spring planting.  John also did a job to get a building that was going to be torn down on the job he is on and that will be moved over here.  Part of it to become a building that will cover our water stove and some of the rest may become a bathroom on the Love Shack!!!   Keep your fingers crossed!  I would like to be able to (when I say I, I mean John since he does these things and I don’t have a mouse in my pocket) hook the water stove up to the Love shack and the green house so that both will be heated.  It’s on the list which we work though as we can based on our limitations of time and money>  (O:

Our projects do not seem to be moving along but we are spending a lot of time playing music.  John was a good guitar player when I met him but he is getting better and better.   I play and sing with a bluegrass/country band on Tuesdays at a local Bojangles restaurant.  On Friday there is an open Jam that we go to and I sometimes sing with another band called, “Sounds of Now and Then.”  I might get to sing on a local radio show with a gospel group in a week or two.  I have always loved to sing and John is being very supportive to allow me to pursue  this endeavor even though it does not bring in any money.  (we do make tips at Bojangles, I’m making tens of dollars!!!).  I have saved the money though, and was able to buy some microphones with it.  I have a dream that someday John and I will play out together, so I’m getting ready.  We’d also like to be able to have jams here someday in the Love Shack.

  If you need a turnip stop by (O:    I am thankful for my health, for my family and friends like you,  work, music and our furry friends.  A happy Christmas and New Year to all and to all a good night!

Originals

This is the beginning of the Parmachenee Road in Wilson's Mills where my parents had a camp when we were growing up.Here is a link to the song I wrote called, Parmachenee Road for my sister's birthday:
http://soundcloud.com/noradearborn/parmachenee-road

And another original called, Everything changes:

http://soundcloud.com/noradearborn/everything-changes-1