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First Camping Trip of the Year! (And A New Tent)

Live music has returned (and I am very excited)! I'm going to the Durango Bluegrass Meltdown this weekend and AJ Lee and Blue Summit (who are going to be at the Meltdown) were playing a gig in Taos, NM, a mere 4-hour drive from Durango. I went down there for the show, and took the opportunity to have a short (very short) camping trip.

I left Durango around 10AM and had a very fun drive down to Taos, found a campsite at Lone Juniper Campground, and got things set up. This was my first time setting up the new tent and it only took me 45 minutes from parking the car to staking down the guy lines, sure beats the 2-hour setup of the old Palatial Tent.

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Organ Project - Pt. 1

The Lord works in mysterious ways.

This is my story of how a genuinely stoned thought is slowly becoming a reality.

I went camping at Kroeger Campground, Site 5, San Juan National Forest (8880ft. elevation) on May 11th. It was pretty cold, I'd planned on staying two nights but could only tough out one. No bother. After having drunk a few beers and eaten a weed gummy on the night of May 11th, I was sitting by the fire keeping warm, starting - mostly - at the stars. I remember pondering just how connected we can be to our ancesters, they looked at this same sky with these same stars.

I was thinking about work (obsessing, even, maybe) after another rather stressful week. This is the year, FINALLY, when I'm going to build a proper choir. COVID has been such a drag but the vaccines are rolled out and things are settling a bit, the mask mandate is gone, the time is neigh! But where the hell am I going to put them?

That DAMN organ takes up so much space, two thirds of my choir area! The stupid thing sounds like a toaster oven, the speakers are in the wrong place, all my Principal stops don't even work, it's just a big fat mess!

And then, in my open-minded (read: stoned) state, the crucial thought came: I've just gotta' get rid of the damn organ!

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