Hello my Friends of the Drum............

Hey, How’s it going? Yea, its been awhile, but I’m back. Lots of stuff to keep you up on and I’ll start by telling you about what’s been going on just real recently. Been working lots like I was saying. Coming home late, after dark, smelling like smoke and dirty and sweaty too. Ton’s of overtime and no regrets. Its been mainly working the big fire you’ve been seeing and smelling the smoke from up in the Sierra there. But, have also stayed busy with other things we do. Went to a motor home wreck where the vehicle lost his brakes and they went off the cliff full speed ahead. Yea, it was gruesome!! Looked at a dead guy who was really blue. Luckily his wife survived, but I sure don’t know how. Then, did some radio hook ups for the fire. Traveled to the big tower lookouts and installed solar radio repeaters. Doing different things is what I love my friends, and yes, seeing the views makes it nice too…..except for dead people of course!
Well, that was work, we decided to take a few days for some much needed R and R and went to a family reunion in Las Vegas, and we flew out too. Haven’t flown in a Dogs life so that was fun, and Vegas was a blast too. I was missing my drum buds here as we watched all the people spending all their money in hopes of striking it rich…..good luck with that we said and headed to the buffet! We ate good and I got a belly going for awhile! Went out on the town late Saturday and well, you know the rest………
Drumming has been great too. Grooves and more grooves. Myshelly , myself , Gary and the Gallery Valarie went out to eat this last Saturday nite and that was sure sweet. It was good to spend some time away from it all with known friends and catch up. I totally heard everything and since I missed just one drumming being in Vegas, I needed to find out. You know, the gossip thing and all. Wow, you should have heard what we heard…………….well, you’ll just have to come up to drumming and find out now…….Have been missing you my friends and know that I’ll be drumming hard and sweating bullets in your honor this coming Sunday night, so join us if you will……………….Love and energy to you all…….

Working and Drumming.........

Busy, Busy here. Its fire season and this has been a very busy year. I'm sure all of you living around here see all the smoke! I've been working lots of hours and thats good. Its why we come. Adventure too having all the excitment of a fire going on.
Drumming too has been real good. Thanks to all of you for my birthday drumming!! Thats really cool to be sung happy birthday that many times! And good food and for sure all my good friends who came. Nice!! That felt good you all..............
There's more, but I'll have to update you as I'm off to work again. We'll talk sooner this time I promise..........

Drama at Drumming....................

Yea, you heard it right, we did have some drama at Sunday nights drumming. Some goon who was dancing way too close to the fire, kicked the bowl over and the fire juice spilled out as all the dancers were going round, and it caught one dancer and bam, fire all over her dress and going fast up her whole body!! My god how that fire did go!! She fell down instantly, over where we were and we jumped and went to put her out. We stamped and padded and rolled her in the dirt. It went out, finally and she got a second degree burn on her side. Yea it was a bummer and a shock and the guy was promptly reprimanded by all and made to apologize and well, he was a stranger anyways, and like I said, a goon. It didn’t take long for us to make this Safe. Thanks to Jon, who staked the bowl down hard on Monday. It won’t do that again my friends!
It was a large drumming with chaos the mood of the night. Lots of people and lots of dancers and drummers. We were rolling and controlling pretty much though, and it was a great and historic Labor day weekend drumming for sure. We handled the situation real well and don’t worry, we got your back baby. Come on up and see Sunday night if you would. And, yes, we did go swimming again after and well, it was kinda cold out! We layed flat on the big rocks that were all warm from the sun of the hot day and looked at the milky way stretched out over us from north to south and talked about all that happened....... it’s a good life!!

Labor Day Night.......Sunday Drumming