Things at a Good Drumming.......

If you stayed home last Sunday night thinking we would be drumming inside you were wrong. We were outside, as the people who live in the neighborhood around the gallery will tell you. Loud and soft, light and dark we were drumming to the stars and moon and drumming to the cloud cover. And with folks there to join us!We actually had around 20. Most know how we are and how we will drum outside no matter what the temps. We just crank up the heat in the fire and the grooves and viola.......
Then, after most left and after ten we were just a few. The core having afterhours. Sometimes with music, sometimes with laughs and lies. Gossip is always king and if you want to hear the best news in town hang out afterhours. Now I usually know stuff but I learned some new things just this last Sunday night! Did you know that whats his face is going to.....well I can't tell you cuz I've sworn to not print gossip but you'll hear it soon enough....but maybe never.
So, as we went along we were just getting ready to all stand up and leave from the smokey fire when in a search for instruments Jon got out his lite....which happened to be blue and off we went on a whole new adventure calling the aliens out and the camera too...............

The Valley Fog comes up into Three Rivers..........

Ticking Time.............

Just got back in time for drumming...........And Sundays wasn't too bad. Though, we need wood really bad now. We're down to driftwood scavenged from the river bed. Smokey road is the song we were singing round the ole camp fire Sunday nite. We all had got our eyes stung with the smoke and came home smelling like smoked salmon but not complaining about anything. Its always good to see you all down there. We're pioneer folk and know about this kinda stuff.

Here's some pictures from the trip to San Fransisco this last weekend.

The First Sweat of 2010

I've got all these lists going that feed my day with stuff to gather. Here's one from last Friday night................
Liners
Sage
Oranges
2 Towels
Water
Down Jacket
Thats right, we did our first sweat of the year on the first night of the year in our kinda new sweat down by the river. Close enough to walk down and jump in, though we didn't that night! Kinda new meaning we redid the old frame with new willow sticks. Gary and Scott did the rebuild on our sweat for ten people. We only had 4 takers that night, but that didn't discount the experience which was excellant! I felt real good the next day, a sign of a good and sweet sweat.

Here's another shot from last Sundays drumming, our first of the year.

The First Drumming of Twenty-Ten.......