Fixing a Broken Guitar...

 

"Say it isn't so, Jim!"

It isn't so.  Well, not one of my guitars.  And, I'm not the one fixing it; this is Joan's thing...

 That is a guitar-playing garden gnome.  No, it is not out in the garden in the image above.  It is being repaired, so it is in the house.  In the kitchen to be more exact.

Why is the guitar-playing garden gnome in your kitchen?  Thanks for asking.  It has been windy off and on this week.  That gnome has been living on a table, part of our patio furniture.  The wind blew him right off the table, and broke his neck.  Well, not his neck, but the neck on his guitar.   Joan glued it and put him back out there.  The wind blew him off again.

I suggested letting me drill a small hole in the two parts of the guitar and putting a brace in there before gluing it this time.  Joan glued and taped (you can see the tape behind the neck of the guitar, right at the gnome's left hand) it.  We'll see how that holds this time around.

I like this gnome - he's kinda like the ZZ Top guitarist (20 bonus points if you said, "Billy Gibbons") of garden gnomes.

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Passport Update...

Joan and I sat side-by-side, filling out the online info for our passports.  8 days ago.  She finished her application about 3 minutes before I did.  In those 8 days, she got word that payment had been received, the application accepted, the application processed and approved, the new passport is in the mail, and it is now in our mailbox.

During that same time, I got word that my payment had been received.  That came about an hour after Joan got that notification.  Then, radio silence.  So, if we have to get out of the country fast, Joan will have to go without me.

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Mothers Day Eve outing...

Another concert for us tonight.  Fairly short notice, since we just got the tickets on Thursday.  Wild Horse Casino once again (where we saw Tower of Power).  This one is with Don Felder (30 bonus points if you said, "One of the founding members of the Eagles, until 2001").  There was a falling out in the band and Felder exited (I don't know whether he quit or was fired).  Here's a few of the songs he wrote, co-wrote: Hotel California, Visions, Too Many Hands, Victim of Love; and recorded: Lyin' Eyes, Take It To the Limit, Take It Easy, New Kid In Town, Desperado, Tequila Sunrise.

Oh, that Don Felder.  The question has been asked in the music press: "Who was the better guitar player, Don Felder or Joe Walsh... Don Felder was a virtuoso guitarist and probably the best “pure musician” in the Eagles. Joe Walsh is a rock star, who happens to be very good at playing the guitar. But he is not nearly on the same level as Don Felder."  Not my words.

This is a relatively small venue, and there were still tickets available.  People are missing out.