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I am so excited! I have a new addition to my guitar collection. It's a 1950's Dobro!!!! Isn't it gorgeous? I have always been fascinated by resonator guitars. I never really thought such a thing would pop up in my life. But this came available and I just could not resist! I bought it from an old guy who lives just up the street close by where I live. He is eighty years old and has some lovely guitars. It was great fun talking to him about guitars and looking at some of his. I think that I first developed sort of a fascination with resonator guitars in the late 1980's. At that time I lived in Port Alberni BC and I was involved with a folk music group. We sang and played instruments and we would get a different artist from out of town to come play once a month. I was always more of a singer than anything at that point but that was about the time I got fascinated by stringed instruments. Up until then I had only played wind instruments and only a little. I never mastered ...

 My garden is starting to fill out so I thought I would post about it. I love this time of year. It's so delicious! I slept with all my windows open last night. It was so wonderful to feel the cool night air over my face. It smells so good. The cats just love having the windows open at night. keeps them busy and quiet so I can sleep. Peaches slept curled up against me. It was a good night. And just look at my pig! Maggie the Magnolia is in full bloom! Isn't she cute? I love that pig. I have a little piggy on my back porch step too.   I don't know what this bush is called. I call it my "orange ball bush" for it's flowers. I got a tone of it from my brother when he ripped it out of his yard to make room for his hen house. I love it. This is the first year it has started to flourish. Up till now it hasn't got many flowers. It looks nice this year though! In front is my white rugosa rose. I started that from just a half dead stick. it's hard to see ...

 These are my guitars. I love them. I honestly barely play. I am just learning. Learning new things is good for the brain they say. So I have been re-learning music. I took music in school as a kid. I learned to play flute and sing. I also learned how to read music. But it's all a little foggy these days. My first guitar was the Ariana in the foreground. I painted it. It has some defects in the finish that I covered up. The bridge on it is lifting. But it's been that way since i bought it in 1995. So I don't think it's going to give out any time soon. I love it. It has a really big voice. It has been all over Canada with me. I never stayed any one place very long in my youth. In fact I never stayed long anywhere or had very many possessions most of my life. I just settled down the last ten years or so. Until then my guitar was one of the only possessions I hung on to. I never had more than I could fit in my car. Which was a Hyundai hatchback little thing.  I got ...