Yeah, I really miss seeing the Salt Lake Valley the morning after a big storm. The winter storms were/are my favorites, but those in the summer were nice too.

A novel with characters the author has made me care about.
Eating pasta.
Watching Spring Training games and enjoying a Sonoran Hot Dog, chili cheese fries, and a Diet Coke while doing it.
I love restringing my guitars and hearing that ever so familiar clean, resonant sound when I strum the strings for the first time. Every I change strings I wonder why I don’t do it more often.
New strings are always something to look forward to. On my primary guitar which I play a lot, (a Martin D35), I try to change them every 6 weeks or so.
As an aside, the doors guitarist, Robbie Krieger, supposedly only replaced strings when they broke, as he hated the sound of new strings. I hope he was cleaning them often, they get filthy.
Back then strings were not made nearly as well, so I’m guessing he had to change them somewhat often. He was a great guitar player, generally very simple. He wrote some of their best songs.
The sound of the Sandhill Cranes in March. It means spring is coming!
I have in old farmhouse in Paris, ID, and for two decades, I’ve watched, and said, “the Sandhill Cranes in early April, means spring is coming”.
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With spring arriving we are now seeing the raccoons again on our cameras.
I love this brewery.






