Moved to Iowa

[fmm]

All: today the moving truck unloaded all of our stuff in rural Indianola IA (just south of Des Moines).
We’re starting a new chapter, and I will be looking for new musical opportunities. 

[StephenR]

Best of luck getting settled into your new home and environment!

[lbpesq]

Good luck with the move.  Brought this oldie to mind:

Bill, tgo

[David Houck]

Hoping the new chapter if full of wonder.

[pauldo]

Well you do have the National Balloon Museum that you can visit... :-)

I had to look it up.   

Unfortunately Seed Savers Exchange is about 3.5 hours NNW of your new location.  It is a marvelous place where they are protecting heirloom seed stock.  My wife has volunteered there a couple times and it is a place of great hope and dreams for a better, sustainable future.

Best of luck with the relocation and in finding gigs that bring you joy!

[cozmik_cowboy]

Well you do have the National Balloon Museum that you can visit... :-)

I had to look it up.   

Unfortunately Seed Savers Exchange is about 3.5 hours NNW of your new location.  It is a marvelous place where they are protecting heirloom seed stock.  My wife has volunteered there a couple times and it is a place of great hope and dreams for a better, sustainable future.

Best of luck with the relocation and in finding gigs that bring you joy!

it is beautiful that the Seed Savers Exchange is smack dab in the heart of the High-Fructose Corn Syrup Belt!

Peter (who is surrounded by it as well)

[fmm]

There were about 10 balloons up this morning. 

[pauldo]

There were about 10 balloons up this morning. 

Well silly me didn’t even research WHAT type of balloons... I assume you saw 10 hot air balloons?   
I can see where that could be a calming event to view.   


Paul (who acknowledges that he also is surrounded by GMO products and am afraid for our future)

[fmm]

Hot air balloons.  Our house was (and will continue to be) a popular balloon landing spot. 

[JimmyJ]

Congrats on the move.  That is some lovely wide open sky territory there.  No wonder it's a hot air balloon haven.

Here's a quick Iowa story for you...  The great jazz drummer Bill Stewart is from Des Moines.  He and keyboardist Larry Goldings were at one time in saxophonist Maceo Parker's band.  Maceo is best known for his work with the legendary James Brown.  And on at least one occasion Mr. Brown joined Maceo and his band for some gigs.  At rehearsal, James was heard to say (in that great fast-clipped speaking voice) "Drummer ... where're you from?"  To which Bill replied, with a questioning upturn: "Iowa?"  And James said "Ain't no funk in Iowa!" 

Of course we know that funk is alive and well in all corners of the planet - and Bill Stewart can lay it down with the best of them.  But that was a pretty funny comeback!

Enjoy the new digs.
Jimmy J

[keith_h]

A branch of my family is from, and some still are, in the Knoxville area not too far from you (they are one of the founding families). As a kid I use to go up there with my grandfather to mow between the fields and along the roads of my great, great aunts' farm. Something I'm sure wouldn't be allowed today with a 10 - 12 year kid running his own tractor with a large mower deck attached. In fact I'm the current custodian of the one room school bell where one of the aunts taught in the late 1800's to early 1900's. The school still stands but was turned into a house sometime before WWII. 

[edwardofhuncote]

Funny, the things that stick in my head...

When touring in the Midwest, as if that flat terrain weren't foreign enough for a kid from the mountains of Southwest Virginia, the ratio of dobros to banjos threw me way off. I always wondered; how did so many of those dad-blamed hub-cap guitars wind up in the Plains?

I also remember you had a birdseye maple Spoiler, #89S 5560, the nearest neighbor to my very first Alembic. I still keep a picture of it. 


Enjoy the new homeplace.