http://www.rollingonone.com/blog Just another personal weblog Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:18:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I can show you my garden arbor, looking almost the way it will when it's finished. It needs more pieces cut and many pieces to be put on, and some finish on the seats (I think I'll use a clear oil on them, because the paint I used for the ... http://www.rollingonone.com/blog/?p=1004 On our way home from Portland this morning we heard Hyphenated Blues by the Okratones on WUNH, the campus station from Durham, New Hampshire. It's about last names. Just listen. http://www.rollingonone.com/blog/?p=1001 I started doing Hebrew calligraphy while I was working at Parke Math Labs in 1978, give or take a year. A born-again woman who worked in the same building said "I just found my name in the Bible, as a heading over a verse in a psalm." I explained that ... http://www.rollingonone.com/blog/?p=998 I went to a concert last night, part of the Newburyport Chamber Music Festival, in a renovated carriage house on one of the old sea captain estates along the main road into the town. If the festival hasn't changed its home page since I set up that link, the picture ... http://www.rollingonone.com/blog/?p=994 I was starting on this story last night -- When I was in graduate school I got the notion that I'd like to learn to play "Turkey in the Straw" on the fiddle. Being a starving graduate student, I couldn't afford to buy a fiddle. Maybe I could make one? While ... http://www.rollingonone.com/blog/?p=991 Last weekend (July 24 and 25) we were, uncharacteristically, in two picture-postcard type New England churches. Being Jewish, of course I don't go to church as such. Synagogue now and then, but not church; but when I was in college, I went to chapel services at the college enough to become ... http://www.rollingonone.com/blog/?p=974 I've been working on a garden arbor for our place in Maine. It's one of those gateway arches with trellis sides and benches on the inside of the gates, so you can sit down under the vines that are supposed to grow up and around the thing, if you want ... http://www.rollingonone.com/blog/?p=972 Our favorite place to buy garden plants in Maine recently has been Reinhart's garden center in Naples. They're not on a main road, so it took us a while to find them. I guess Arlene saw their ad in the local newspaper once and wanted to check them out. At ... http://www.rollingonone.com/blog/?p=978 About a week ago I noticed that the rear window of our new car sported some graffiti. It must have been done by someone who spends less time on gravel roads than I do and doesn't appreciate the futility of keeping a car washed if you do travel on gravel ... http://www.rollingonone.com/blog/?p=968 Last week Tobie invited the klezmer band and other friends who play klezmer music over to her condo for a jam session. Well, with sheet music that she had. I got there (which is to say, just over the Watertown line, in a 5-year-old condo complex) a little early. The driver ... http://www.rollingonone.com/blog/?p=965