This years V-day mix! Not bad for last minute!

Well, It is valentines day once again. And that means that it is Mix time. This years theme is .. You! Yes! You! And you thought I would choose something like “The Wind” as my theme eh? Given previous productions, I can understand why! However it is a V-Day mix and Vday is all about celebrating your loved ones and .. possibly even sharing your cooties with them. And frankly, I already share enough cooties with fowl creatures to want to dedicate this mix to the birds. Although I do love our chickens and geese (or  the ocean breeze, the sunsets, the mountains and valleys and everything holy that I can lay my sight on).  and I would gladly spend hours on end singing their praises.. But the truth is.. I already do this year round  in my various writings and conversations and pictures. So then what to honor this year?  I decided that I rather than look to my yard for inspiration, I should instead turn inward and take a moment to stroll through the “Garden of My Hear” and praise those that populate it. In other words, this mix is for YOU! Click the number to link to the actual song on Youtube. Enjoy! .

1. Greg is a Damn Good Man so how could I not?

2. My spunky Darling certainly is wild.. and crazy .. and funkyl.

3. This one should be called “You are the SONshine of my life.”

4. Mom’s love is as blinding as the sun caught on her bling.

5. Thoughts of Dad still make me cry.

6. GG and GNor.. this reminds me of the Scottish highlands and the sea salt that runs in my veins. (Grandpa was a sailor!)

7. Grandma Bea was a nocturnal Recluse and grandpa was just fine with that as long as they got to dance together.

8. Billy, Rach, the girls, Aunties, Uncles, C.Mc9, all the cousins and their families, my steps and their families.. and any family I might have missed… I can only burn so many songs on a disk and I had a lot of ground to cover.. anyway.. Love you and this one is especially for you all.

9. To all my Soul Sistaz from da hood. You know who you are.. Holla!

10. For the music makers and poets whose notes, words and laughter have rained down on my  soul and made my garden lush.

11. Angele - You know you are a cute little heartbreaker

12. Irie.. Always remember this.

13. Aden.. Still waters run deep.

14. For neighbors past and present of course

15. This goes out to all the teachers who give sooo very much for so very little

16. This is for the kids friends and classmates and their families

17. Surf guitar and a focus on Earth.. why this one goes out to those surfrider environmentalist friends.

18. For those whose lives cross mine via line and feed.

19. For the nameless like that guy I exchanged a smile with or the pharmacist, teller, cashier who is very much a part of these small slices of life.

20. To ALL  in this everloving world.. because what I do here reaches far beyond my sight and effects the tangle we are all a part of ...as do everyones actions.  

21. And finally what good is a mix without a final shot of morphine to drift away on? May you be  
lucky and loved!

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 In other News, All of Connors bloodwork is normal and good. Next to see a neurologist.

Willow did excellent at the science fair.

Greg is now back from a week in Boston and it looks like he is going to have an opportunity this year to travel to Europe. Not sure when that will shake out but the trip looks like it will include Amsterdam, Sweden and Italy. It was exciting news.

And as late as it is.. if you want to here about Pro Am  and how close I got to hobnobbing with the elite as well as my thoughts on Superbowl.. Check this.  Bill.. I put this together mostly for you!

What else? Willow's place at the College Prep school is reserved and payments have begun!

Connor has 4 field trips in the next month to study various points on the watershed.

Life is busy and good. And I think this year is starting out just grand!

Meanwhile in Corporate News.. Its getting Brisk.

Today Green Mountain announced a new long-term strategic and commercial collaboration agreement with Coca-Cola, the world’s largest beverage company, to develop and globally launch their Keurig Cold™ at home beverage system. Keurig they play hard ball.  Since Greg started they have done nothing but go big.

Also speaking of Greg and work... He stepped down Saturday night from his position at the Chamber of Commerce. He was not able to pay it as much attention as it required. And I would think not! Jae (his wonderful assistant) mentioned to me that he took 16 trips last year alone. How can he possibly attend to the chamber business from his lengthy drawn out meetings on the East Coast? Green Mountain however will continue to be represented on the board as Jae has stepped up to the plate in his stead. Congrats Jae! Greg and I and some others from the plant celebrated her instatement at the annual county crabfeed this past weekend. I am still stuffed!!

The countdown to the countdown

The flu has been an ever present and unwelcomed guest in my home since mid dec. viciously cycling through most of us. Greg and aden have brushed aside it's most peristant advances with relative ease but even they have not gone totally unmolested by its grimy presence. Irie is home fighting what little remains of the germ now that the rest of us have finally stood up and kicked the living shit out of it. I feel as though I have done nothing but sleep for the last three or so weeks. Even while greg was gone which is almost unheard of. 

I am Flabbergasted....how fast time passes. Overwhelmed by work that has piled up. What work? A complete overhaul on the Surfrider website is in order for starts. Why? Because I'm still the listed all over it as the main contact! That has to change and ASAP. Along with some other items. Anyway.. It's a priority .. And taxes! But they can wait because it's time to get my valentines day gift created.. That's right.. I have not even created it yet.... but my drafting is well underway and I'm quite pleased with what is forming ...Let along mass produce and distribute!!! I need a few long nights. And I need them now.  Time to get productive! The Almighty knows I've not liked being out of commission this long. But it was necessary. I am now rested enough to burn some midnight oil.

How's the zen doodling in the mornings going? Not really going. No more than I have been doing planks.. I need to practice some personal discipline. ( one side of me giggles at that thought and wonders if I need to get some rope!) Anyway.. I digress. 

Willow has not been doing much with her bass but she and Irie have been getting to know thier way around the old ivories! I'll have to record some of that soon for you. 

What else? Connors bloodwork is being analyzed. He didn't like it. Almost passed out at the sight of his blood. The kid is so sensitive. He dissected a fish in class and it was traumatizing .. This week they are looking at pigs hearts..

Lots of field trip for school coming up. I need to seriously attend to my calendar! When is spring break? When and who all are coming to visit? Eeks! Fun lies just ahead!  Just need to put some things in order.. Ah yes.. I'll begin that tonight!