I Love To Tell The Story

Finally, a folio of Barn Dance favorites from 1955~!

Catherine Hankey wrote the words and William Fisher set them to music around the time of the American Civil War.

Drum Brakes

only the bottom of a swimming pool would make a more uncomfortable work space

I do not blame the drum brakes for my troubles. I actually like drum brakes and the springs and levers and "self adjusting" cable hardware. It's awesome when it works and gives me less trouble than disc brakes. The trouble is working with bleeding knees on a sharp rock landscape. And then having auto parts places send almost the right parts. Maybe they worked for 1973 Mustangs so they might work for a '69 Econoline. And then the newly manufactured parts have problems. And then there are problems with reassembly. Otherwise, the work is actually as easy as it gets.

no hint of the frustration and agony involved in this assembly.

I want to buy a garage so I can work on this van properly because now I have the resources to completely renew everything.

I didn't think it would last this long

Oggy Sue

Got word of an impending 25th high school reunion...which means I'm in danger of reenacting the exact scenario from Peggy Sue Got Married...where Kathleen Turner goes to her 25th high school reunion in 1986 and goes back in time to 1961 and tries to change her own history but learns nothing can change without changing everything.
Then I wonder how many of my classmates would go to the reunion if it was held in El Paso.

Production Value

Composition

I am limping and my arthritic toes bleed at the end of the day but watching "Once Upon A Time in The West" makes all the pain go away. Because that once upon a time is here again with different shades of orange, dust storms, straw hats, grim quests of vengeance, redemption and suede jackets. Villains ride over the same dirt to meet their fate. I'm part of the determined bulging of humanity, straining toward paradise, the final station called home, twin steel rails leading home. I don't feel heroic but in 50 years I hope someone will make my life appear heroic.

Over The Sunset Mountains

Words and Music by John W. Peterson

The Statler Brothers do a good performance. If you want to hear the lyrics and maybe save your soul before judgement day.