Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Keyman

I was looking for some kind of old steel knocker or rusted steel ring that I could put on a big outside door I was making. Driving back from a retreat in West Virginia, heading north on Route 522 through rural Pennsylvania, I stopped at antique shops along the way. In McConnellsburg a red, white, and blue Antiques Open flag on the main road pointed me down an alley to a little shed behind the house.

A little dog was at the door yapping and looking as ferocious as the little rug rat could but I braved it and went inside sending him hustling to the back room looking over his shoulder pissed at the intrusion. The shed was two small rooms, maybe 12 x 18 together, packed with the usual fare of old tools and bottles, knickknacks and collectables. I looked about briefly and went to the back room where the proprietor was planted in a big stuffed chair with the little bug eyed yapper in his lap and NASCAR on a small TV.

I told him what I sought and he didn't think he had anything like that. In this room one couldn't help but notice - there were hundreds of keys hanging everywhere. Hanging on the wall and rafters, on key chains in bunches or singles on a nail. I started thinking a big ole key might look cool on the door but nope the keys are not for sale. He bragged a bit on his large accumulation, "paid big money for some of 'em", as I admired some of the big ones.


Anyway, just another example of how you just don't know what you might stumble upon along the way.

Saturday, June 13, 2009

Kieth's Party



A Friday night summer evening gathered around the kitchen table laden with good food open bottles of wine, nice people, young folks coming and going get a bite to eat and off again to a beautiful evening on a Pennsylvania farm with a lighted basketball hoop in the barn and a sweet smelling meadow, a bonfire and sky full of stars.

It's OK

Don't be afraid. We just want one at a time. We'll bring him back just as he was. Well.. close anyway.

Monday, June 1, 2009

Missing you



Robin, I listened to your CD tonight, the one with dubbed vocals and pretty harmonies. Has me missing you. Hope you are feeling better.
Love, Dad