Happy New Year! : )..

Indeed.  Hope everyone had a great one.  The picnic / wine tasting was awesome.  It was 66 degrees yesterday afternoon, so we all got to enjoy a couple bottles of wine and what I thought was a bottomless picnic basket that our friend packed along.  She brought crackers, cheese, crab dip, fruit, cheesecake and a whole lot of other stuff.  They bought a lot of wine, I'm thinking that they agreed, Ladoga Winery in Smithville, MO has it goin on.  : )..  They opened a bottle of the Blackberry and a bottle of the Strawberry Rhubarb wines to enjoy with the snacks.  Lemme tell ya, once the Blackberry had a chance to lose it's chill, that was some deeelishus wine!  Yummy for sure!  We had such a great time!  Buon Cibo * Buon Vino * Buoni Amici!  Good food * Good wine * Good friends!  What an awesome way to start the New Year's Eve festivities.

We went to the Famous Seamus and the Travelbongs show as well.  Luckily we took our camera because one of the group members told us his plan for the show before they started playing.  He proposed to his girlfriend during the show and I got it on video for them.  I would post it on here, but I am working a 16 hour shift at my old group home today so I'm not able to post the video right now.  Yup.  That says 16 hours.  Lol.  I'm working a double shift on the first day of 2012.  : )..  It's an easy job so...  What's better than earning a little extra money to start the year off right?

Alrighty..  Better get back to workin..  I'm working really hard right now..  Can't you tell?  The biggest part of this job is staying awake..  I've got my caffeine close at hand..  I am good to go!

Our friends "Famous Seamus and the Travelbongs" radio debut..

Our friends, David Haynie, Wayne Carpenter and Brian Garvin jammed live on the radio tonight for the first time.  Awesome job guys!  : )..  They started playing informally with Wayne's dad and a family friend, but gelled together as a band after playing many a party here at our house.   

 

 

I posted a video of them in our living room playing their cover of, "Glendale Train" which chronicles the time that the Jesse James Gang robbed a train in Kansas City, MO.  Famous Seamus' first paying gig came after a Joplin Tornado Relief promoter saw that video posted on YouTube.  They have been getting an ever increasing amount of attention all over town since then.  I'm sooo glad that I could have such a great part in getting them noticed!  : )..

 

 

This is an original song that was spawned by the Glendale Train robbery.  Jesse and his gang needed a place to rest and lay low that night and happened to come upon a poor, elderly widow's farm.  It was the evening before the banker was coming to foreclose on her property.  The gang GAVE her the money to pay the banker.  After she paid the banker in full, he gave her the deed to her property and left.  Guess what happened next?  Lol.  Jesse and his gang robbed the banker on his way back to the bank and re-claimed their money!  Ha!  : ).. 

Her grandson who inherited her bible actually brought it into David Haynie's family owned and run book bindery to have it worked on.  He verified this story and that every bit of it was true to the word.  David and the guys wrote this original tune about it.  : )..  How awesome is that?  Totally awesome, IMO.  Here's some face and ear meltin bluegrass music!  Great job guys!!!!  We're proud of ya'll!!!!