Tim, thanks for checking on the book progress. SNF (1977) & Disco Duck (1976) were beyond the book’s time line. The sequel story ends in 1970 (in Hamburg, Germany). My favorite music era is the 80s! I was in my 40s when I started college. Loved & love the bands & songs then and today. 📚🎶 C.
I missed or forgot that you only go to 1970. I hated disco back in the day. I was doing ballroom dance, and we had to learn all the new disco dances and compete in disco competitions. I was also working in a music store and playing in garage bands, and disco was seen a a real scourge among musicians who played live back then. I had one foot (two really) in disco, not by choice, and the other foot in the rock and jazz “Disco Sucks!” side of the isle. I’ve come to appreciate some of the vintage Disco in my old age, but not Disco Duck.
Tim, thanks for sharing you history of music. You were very active in it, and it’s fun to read about your experiences. I was in the jitter-bug, twist eras in the 50s-60s. My Dad played trombone in a band. Music was big in my life. As it was in yours. Lucky us. 🎼 Christine
Thanks, Shey. Venus and the moon and I got up at the same time this morning. I was like a frosted flake outside in my skivvies taking photos of Venus and the moon at 04:30. The temperature was a toasty -5ºC.
It is murder when it is cold in the house and the fortune we are paying here for gas is ridic and nothing to do with any warin Ukraine and everything to do with them shutting all the gas storage facilities. Fortunately we have a log fire and tons of free wood. We also somehow managed the daunting and just about unheard of task of getting another gas supplier on a fixed and very reasonable tariff. Just the same we are making do witha lot of layers, hot water bottles, throws and dresing gowns. I hope it heats up for you soon.
Gas is not expensive here, we keep the house on the cool side and have spot heaters were we happen to be. We wear layers and have layers of cats to keep was warm. When we lived it Spain, gas was expensive. Since it’s so dry here, the cold doesn’t seep to your bones like it does in more humid climates.
Lol.. Still it be warmer than our last house talkin’ shiverin’ timbers. Had to ahve heating on in that one even in the summer. It stood right high above the river and had a big basment under it cos it was at the top of what was called heart Attack Hill by the locals. You literally could not heat that house and we paid per month for heating than the on the mortgage.
Not a good design. We have a steep hill on the other side of the mountains called “Heartbreak Hill!” It used to be included in bicycle races ans was killer to ride up. Many had to walk their bikes up it.
Lol yeah you’d have never have cycled up our hill. And when it was icy..well…. you took the long way round. There was one main road through where we lived and the back road which wasn’t a main road but the only other way right through. Heart Attack hill was what joined it to the main road.
Sounds like Heart Attack Hill was a killer short cut.
On our married life we have had 3 houses and two of them were at the top of dreadful hills. This one is up a hill but a dawdle by comparison.
We’ve always lived in the valley. Although, I used to be on top of things, I have also dwindled to a dawdle. A valley vagrant photographing dawn and dusk between aches and pains. Even so I carry onward and upward as much as possible. Well, at least looking up at the sky.
You do wonderfully and your pictures and snippet of you life there are amazing. Re Heart Attack Hill, there was one night. hell it was in march and there was this sudden killer snow fall. Anyway I had ben drinking witha friend who lived in Gauldry and we never noticed. Her man , then in the police thought it woudlb e no bother to run me home but he ran the jeep off the road at this dreadful bend and into the ditch . he wnated me to come back to their house and stay but I set off in this blizzard not really dressed for it and did the god knows how many miles home. I forgot about Heart Attack Hill till I reached it . . . . .
A lot of excitement and bravely forging through the blizzard and then HAH! That must have been an OF moment.
Yeah to paraphrase WC Fields, I thought ‘ On the whole I’d rather be in Gauldry….. But hey at that point in our lives, we used to think nothing of taking a cheap booking at the Clachaig Inn and doing hills in conditions like that. That was when you could get acheap booking mind you.
Not too many things that are cheap these days. Even cheap stuff is expensive.
They’ve got ridiculous though. I defended for years the notion that you don’t pay for the accomodation there as such in that it is basic, what you pay for is the location, the atmopshere, the the fall out your bed and onto a hill feeling, the Boots bar on awintery afternoon, the Boots Bar on a Sat nite when the lvie music is on and the atmopshere is electric, the wonderful food and the gantry. But when it gets to the stage of it costing 300 quid for a one night stay..this is adding in the meals in and these meals are rubbish with no choice, one glass of wine costs more than 2 bottles and the room includes a 3/qaurter bed being passed off as a double, and no even a working telly… well… As for getting into the Boots Bar you’ll be lucky for the parties of day coach trippers and you’ll freeze if you do cos they leave the doors wide open. Well…..
Amazing isn’t it?
the sad state of this country is that is now cheaper to go abroad to walk for a weekend in France and Crete.
That is a sad state. Many states in the States are in the same state where it’s cheaper to go to another state that do things in your own state. Lots of states in that sentence. Although, NM is a lot cheaper than California, for example, it’s more expensive than most Midwestern states.
It is a sad state, you are right. But we also found the same with Prague re flights and acoomodation and the cost of food and drink there. It was all far far cheaper than here. We did have a few nights in Edinburgh earlier and we managed to do that really cheaply by going on the bus, booking a deal with a Travelodge eating in a Weatherspoons and going places that were free entry, or that were free anyway. I don’t mind paying if a place lives up to what it stood for previously, like the Clachaig but I’m not going to be fleeced.
The other thing re that last stay in the Clachaig was that it was plain they were making their money from the well heeled tourists who come from across the pond on these kind of whistlestop bespoke tours where a driver ferries a group all over certain bits of Scotland. you’d just about to climb all over the mountains of luggage to get out the hotel door for a start.
Sounds dreadfully dreadlocked. Bloody Tourists. Do you remember that 10 CC album?
10 CC?? Oh yeah. They weren’t yesterday. When we first went to stay there it was rucksacks and hill boots and West Highland Way night’s stopover walking and camping gear. Oh well….
Painter woke up in great mood which went on to splashing white dots on the nightsky.
I like that multi-level colorful sky! You caught a nice moon eye there, and I love the starry blue. Little to no moon and star viewing up here with all the clouds.
Your tree and the Tangle Heart tree are distinctive. Gigi’s is pretty distinctive, but it’s still a classic cottonwood shape, it could be mistaken for Shey’s tree and vice a versa.
Ahh, well I love them all. I could use another Shey tree. Still my drawings aren’t finished, soI have time.
I’ll send you one or 2 of the new ones when I take pics. xx
Actually made it out to that meteor shower for a change (helps when I can just stay up late rather than getting back up early in the morning). Had at least one every 10-15 minutes or so with a clear sky for a change. No pictures though.
Off Center & Not Even 
Tim, the Dawn sky is amazing. The planets so clear. Great photography, as always. 📚🎶 Christine
Thanks, Christine. How’s your book coming? Are you up to the time of Saturday Night Fever and Disco Duck?
Tim, thanks for checking on the book progress. SNF (1977) & Disco Duck (1976) were beyond the book’s time line. The sequel story ends in 1970 (in Hamburg, Germany). My favorite music era is the 80s! I was in my 40s when I started college. Loved & love the bands & songs then and today. 📚🎶 C.
I missed or forgot that you only go to 1970. I hated disco back in the day. I was doing ballroom dance, and we had to learn all the new disco dances and compete in disco competitions. I was also working in a music store and playing in garage bands, and disco was seen a a real scourge among musicians who played live back then. I had one foot (two really) in disco, not by choice, and the other foot in the rock and jazz “Disco Sucks!” side of the isle. I’ve come to appreciate some of the vintage Disco in my old age, but not Disco Duck.
Tim, thanks for sharing you history of music. You were very active in it, and it’s fun to read about your experiences. I was in the jitter-bug, twist eras in the 50s-60s. My Dad played trombone in a band. Music was big in my life. As it was in yours. Lucky us. 🎼 Christine
We have been lucky in that way.
🎶☺️🎶
Great eye! 🌙
Eye! Eye! Captain! Thanks, Michele. Did you see Venus and the moon rising together this morning?
I probably did without realizing it. I appreciate your sky knowledge. 🙏🏻
🎶☺️🎶
One and three are simply amazing. 🙂
Thanks, Janet.
The first one is like a painting. These are wonderful
Thanks, Shey. Venus and the moon and I got up at the same time this morning. I was like a frosted flake outside in my skivvies taking photos of Venus and the moon at 04:30. The temperature was a toasty -5ºC.
OOh….been like that here. You’d be frosted all right. But truly these pics are very much appreciated.
It’s -11ºC outside this morning. It’s so cold in the house (11ºC) Glenda is curled up on my lap.
It is murder when it is cold in the house and the fortune we are paying here for gas is ridic and nothing to do with any warin Ukraine and everything to do with them shutting all the gas storage facilities. Fortunately we have a log fire and tons of free wood. We also somehow managed the daunting and just about unheard of task of getting another gas supplier on a fixed and very reasonable tariff. Just the same we are making do witha lot of layers, hot water bottles, throws and dresing gowns. I hope it heats up for you soon.
Gas is not expensive here, we keep the house on the cool side and have spot heaters were we happen to be. We wear layers and have layers of cats to keep was warm. When we lived it Spain, gas was expensive. Since it’s so dry here, the cold doesn’t seep to your bones like it does in more humid climates.
Oh it seeps here. And this is an old house. i love old hosues but boy do they have draughts, they let the cold seep more.
Shivers me timbers to think about it.
Lol.. Still it be warmer than our last house talkin’ shiverin’ timbers. Had to ahve heating on in that one even in the summer. It stood right high above the river and had a big basment under it cos it was at the top of what was called heart Attack Hill by the locals. You literally could not heat that house and we paid per month for heating than the on the mortgage.
Not a good design. We have a steep hill on the other side of the mountains called “Heartbreak Hill!” It used to be included in bicycle races ans was killer to ride up. Many had to walk their bikes up it.
Lol yeah you’d have never have cycled up our hill. And when it was icy..well…. you took the long way round. There was one main road through where we lived and the back road which wasn’t a main road but the only other way right through. Heart Attack hill was what joined it to the main road.
Sounds like Heart Attack Hill was a killer short cut.
On our married life we have had 3 houses and two of them were at the top of dreadful hills. This one is up a hill but a dawdle by comparison.
We’ve always lived in the valley. Although, I used to be on top of things, I have also dwindled to a dawdle. A valley vagrant photographing dawn and dusk between aches and pains. Even so I carry onward and upward as much as possible. Well, at least looking up at the sky.
You do wonderfully and your pictures and snippet of you life there are amazing. Re Heart Attack Hill, there was one night. hell it was in march and there was this sudden killer snow fall. Anyway I had ben drinking witha friend who lived in Gauldry and we never noticed. Her man , then in the police thought it woudlb e no bother to run me home but he ran the jeep off the road at this dreadful bend and into the ditch . he wnated me to come back to their house and stay but I set off in this blizzard not really dressed for it and did the god knows how many miles home. I forgot about Heart Attack Hill till I reached it . . . . .
A lot of excitement and bravely forging through the blizzard and then HAH! That must have been an OF moment.
Yeah to paraphrase WC Fields, I thought ‘ On the whole I’d rather be in Gauldry….. But hey at that point in our lives, we used to think nothing of taking a cheap booking at the Clachaig Inn and doing hills in conditions like that. That was when you could get acheap booking mind you.
Not too many things that are cheap these days. Even cheap stuff is expensive.
They’ve got ridiculous though. I defended for years the notion that you don’t pay for the accomodation there as such in that it is basic, what you pay for is the location, the atmopshere, the the fall out your bed and onto a hill feeling, the Boots bar on awintery afternoon, the Boots Bar on a Sat nite when the lvie music is on and the atmopshere is electric, the wonderful food and the gantry. But when it gets to the stage of it costing 300 quid for a one night stay..this is adding in the meals in and these meals are rubbish with no choice, one glass of wine costs more than 2 bottles and the room includes a 3/qaurter bed being passed off as a double, and no even a working telly… well… As for getting into the Boots Bar you’ll be lucky for the parties of day coach trippers and you’ll freeze if you do cos they leave the doors wide open. Well…..
Amazing isn’t it?
the sad state of this country is that is now cheaper to go abroad to walk for a weekend in France and Crete.
That is a sad state. Many states in the States are in the same state where it’s cheaper to go to another state that do things in your own state. Lots of states in that sentence. Although, NM is a lot cheaper than California, for example, it’s more expensive than most Midwestern states.
It is a sad state, you are right. But we also found the same with Prague re flights and acoomodation and the cost of food and drink there. It was all far far cheaper than here. We did have a few nights in Edinburgh earlier and we managed to do that really cheaply by going on the bus, booking a deal with a Travelodge eating in a Weatherspoons and going places that were free entry, or that were free anyway. I don’t mind paying if a place lives up to what it stood for previously, like the Clachaig but I’m not going to be fleeced.
The other thing re that last stay in the Clachaig was that it was plain they were making their money from the well heeled tourists who come from across the pond on these kind of whistlestop bespoke tours where a driver ferries a group all over certain bits of Scotland. you’d just about to climb all over the mountains of luggage to get out the hotel door for a start.
Sounds dreadfully dreadlocked. Bloody Tourists. Do you remember that 10 CC album?
10 CC?? Oh yeah. They weren’t yesterday. When we first went to stay there it was rucksacks and hill boots and West Highland Way night’s stopover walking and camping gear. Oh well….
Painter woke up in great mood which went on to splashing white dots on the nightsky.
The painter was happy. Did you see Venus and the moon rising together this morning? I got a lot of photos of those two pairing off. Thanks, Marina.
The first one has the effect of lowering clouds. Very cool!
Thanks, Liz.
You’re welcome, Tim.
Excellent pictures.
I especially like the colours of the sky in the first photo.
Thanks, rabirius.
I like that multi-level colorful sky! You caught a nice moon eye there, and I love the starry blue. Little to no moon and star viewing up here with all the clouds.
Too bad you had clouds. Venus and the moon rose at the same time this morning. Thanks, Lavinia.
The nice thing about seeing the Pleiades this “early” is that Orion isn’t far behind.
I’ve taken several photos with Orion, but I see I haven’t posted them. Thanks, Brad.
such a beautiful Sky so gorgeous, Tim❣️
Thanks, Cindy.
Welcome, Tim!💕
Oh that last shot is particularly spectacular, Tim!!
Thanks, Dale.
Wow Tim, that first shot is surrealistic.
Whose tree is in the centre?
xo
Gigi’s Tree. Thanks, Resa.
I knew it! I’m labelling these. Thanks! I don’t label them all… but I know I can always ask. Mostly I don’t label my tree.
Your tree and the Tangle Heart tree are distinctive. Gigi’s is pretty distinctive, but it’s still a classic cottonwood shape, it could be mistaken for Shey’s tree and vice a versa.
Ahh, well I love them all. I could use another Shey tree. Still my drawings aren’t finished, soI have time.
I’ll send you one or 2 of the new ones when I take pics. xx
Actually made it out to that meteor shower for a change (helps when I can just stay up late rather than getting back up early in the morning). Had at least one every 10-15 minutes or so with a clear sky for a change. No pictures though.
You came out clean? I think meteor showers need video and a lot of editing. Thanks, Brian.
I always say the same .. but your skies are simply the best!
Thanks, Julie.