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Spent the afternoon with the family - doing some bouncy castle, fishing, meeting sweet dogs, swinging kinds of things. 🎣❤️ #colerandall (at Greenbrier, Tennessee)
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Tfw you’re super smart and only have to go through the Starbucks drive through once before you recognize what’s about to happen. #miatheboston #puppuccino (at Starbucks)
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Oh, buddy, it’s on. Check out this instructor lineup. We ain’t playin. I mean, we are playing. But like, never mind. You know what I mean. Registration opens May 25 for previous campers and June 1 for the general public. #nashvilleflatpickcamp #bluegrass #flatpick #guitar (at Ridgetop, Tennessee)
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Oh boy oh boy oh boy! It’s #fiddlinarthursmith Tuesday again already. This week it’s a deceptive little number called Darling Honey. I say deceptive because the opening chord sounds like it would be Em and that would give it sort of a Honey Boy vibe. Oh, but NO! Arthur Smith has the guitar player playing A major. So then, when he adds the G natural to the E, second time around, it just gets weird. Have fun, kids! As always, full video on Facebook and my YouTube channel. #fiddle #fiddlestar #oldtime #bluegrass #fiddlelessons (at Fiddlestar)
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A lot of firsts today! Well, at least as far as Mia’s time with us, anyway. First car ride, first puppucino, first time meeting Kiwi from across the street. Everything is going beautifully, just don’t try to take that tug of war bone toy thing away from her and everyone will get out of here alive. #miatheboston #bostonterrier #bostonterriercult (at Fiddlestar)
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We’d like to introduce you to Mia, a very sweet girl. We’re fostering her for now, hoping that it might work out for us to be her furever pawrents. And yes, I’m making all the doggo puns. Try to stop me. It’s been over a year since we lost our legendary #sirwinstoncup and over the last few months we’ve been working toward finding a new #bostonterrier to call our own. We’ve had all our campers on the job - they have been working really hard all around the country (looking at you Peter Jackson and Anne Duffus and Josh Leven!) to try to find us the perfect baby. But weirdly enough, this girl popped up just down the hill from our house at a small rescue run by a very cool woman who does pretty much everything all on her own. As she is just a foster for now, we’re not saying anything permanent- she has to be right for us and we have to be right for her. But I thought you’d all like to know she was here. And as Adam said, “If she does become ours, I don’t think we’ll change her name because we only know one other Mia and she’s really great.” @miaorosco16 💜#bostonterriercult (at Fiddlestar)
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Last year, my dear friend Bryan lost his brother, Deputy Brad Jimmerson, while Brad was on duty in Nacogdoches County, Texas. In 1941, my family lost my great uncle, Officer Thomas Prindiville (my grandmother’s brother) while he was on duty with the Oakland PD. This week, Bryan is in Washington D.C. honoring his brother during the Peace Officers Memorial and he made time to go to the memorial wall to find my uncle’s name and send me a picture. When he got there, an Oakland PD pin had already been affixed to his name so it seems he has not gone forgotten. I included a picture of Brad’s name on the wall and I hope we can all take a moment to show our gratitude for those who have lost their lives in service to our communities. And in that list, I include officers, activists, members of the military, and anyone who is out there trying to make the world a better place, in any capacity. (at National Peace Officer’s Memorial Service)
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Happy #internationalfluevogday to all my friends and loved ones. The nice people at @fluevog asked all of us Vog lovers to post a picture of ourselves in our #fluevogday outfit so, here you go! As you can see, I mostly wear black and black derivatives so my outfit itself may not be the most grammable but I choose to express myself through my shoes. Fluevogs are how I show the world who I am. These are my newest pair - the Prepare Advisor. Extra love to @dreuz and @curmud.geon and @clawhammerist and @richardbrandenburg and @lucysalcidoc on this special day. #vog_advisor (at Local Honey)
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Happy #fiddlinarthursmith Tuesday! Today we have the super festive Dixieliner’s Ramble, which I’m assuming he named for his great band, The Dixieliners. You can certainly see traces of his more famous Red Apple Rag in this one. And as is often the case with his tunes, they have rather simple melodies that are really fun to play around with so learn the chord progression while you learn the basic melody and then get ramblin’! As always, full video will be on my Facebook page and my YouTube channel. #fiddlestar #fiddle #oldtime #bluegrass #ramble (at Fiddlestar)
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Happy Mother’s Day to my amazing Mur. She’s never been passive about a damn thing. She taught me that. #passiverecreationonly #mothersday (at Central Park)
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