Invidiosulus

Last night we had just enough snow at the north end of the county, and enough again tonight, that the kids are home today and tomorrow for remote learning days.

Happy Thanksgiving! I'm about to take this bird I smoked over to a friend’s house for dinner.

I finally found a store in the next county that had the whole Sumatra beans I normally use for coffee. I’ve been out since the first week of October after Helene came through. It’s sounding as though it will be another six months or so before they have the grocery store down the street from my house rebuilt and ready to open. I’ve been in the studio with band number one recording the bass tracks for some songs we are going to use for some promotional videos. band number two is a rockabilly act and we have a gig opening a show on Black Friday down at Burger Bar(no burgers all bar) in Asheville. It should be a good way to wake people up from their turkey induced coma.

Mike was out of gas before the end of the first round, his legs and cardio just weren’t there at all. you could tell a couple of his first punches genuinely surprised Jake Paul but after that he couldn’t get anything done.

Mine does, Acccount > Attachments. and it tells me I have something like .3MB available.

Using chrome browser on iPhone when browsing to select a picture, I can hit the options setting on the lower left which lets me choose original size or large, medium, small. image upload and embed seems to be working for me although I’m almost out of space.

Apparently I also ran out of filters for my Chemex. I thought I had another box in the cabinet but it’s also empty. Time for the Aeropress to make its return.

Someone shared some cellphone clips with us from our first gig the other night. Yours truly on bass. in other news, I’m out of my normal whole bean Sumatra for my morning brews since our grocery store was lost in the flood. Ive got some generic dark roast whole beans but it’s not great. I’m taking a friend down to the VA hospital in Asheville on Friday morning so I might try to pick up some other beans at one of the grocery stores on the way.

So far so good, live stream of the Toe Jam fest in Spruce Pine is available here. I think we go on around 7pm or so. You know how it goes, you have a schedule and then you have to troubleshoot some things with the PA in the first act.

The guys were setting up the stage today and someone from FEMA rolled in and told them they heard we were planning a concert and free food. ”You can’t do that because this is a disaster area”. After some back and forth, the FEMA folks decided to let it go as long as we weren’t giving out food, we are right across from our friends (who were totally okay with us giving out free food) who run one of the only open restaurants in town at this point so food and drinks will still be available nearby. At this point the guy who owns the property where we are playing told the FEMA folks to F*** off and get off of his private property. Should be a good time Saturday night!

Just got back from band practice. We are closing out a fundraiser/fun time concert here in Spruce Pine this Saturday night. We are going to run through one more practice on Friday evening and then it will be go time on Saturday. Tomorrow I get to go deliver a laptop to a new gal at work that lives halfway up 226A near Little Switzerland. We were supposed to meet up the Monday after Helene hit us but her equipment didn’t get to me until last week and the roads between weren’t reasonably passable until this week.

My internet and cell service went out again last night so streaming was t an option while I grilled some burgers. The vintage Technics turntable, ART DJ pre II, Crown XLS1002, Klipsch KP-250, sounded pretty good from the neighbors yard across the street.

I spent yesterday unloading 20’ and 14’ box trucks full of supplies at our church in Linville. Then loaded up the pilot chock full of supplies and headed back to Spruce Pine to distribute food and household items to the families in my neighborhood. My neighbors down the street have year-old twin boys and they were overjoyed when I told them I could get them the size diapers they needed. From there I stopped by to check on my old buddy Jeff and his wife and they had a crew out front repairing their service panel that was ripped off in the storm. In the meantime they have a generator that they were using for their fridge and their TV room. While I was there Jeff exclaimed “Life’s too short!” and insisted I grab an unopened bottle of bourbon off his workbench. Today was a bit more relaxed. Our water sort of came back on yesterday so I was able to get a couple of loads of laundry run before taking my oldest kiddo up to his friends house where they were going to help run the food truck that the friends mom runs that is currently providing meals for the linemen that Duke Energy has working up their way. On the way back to the house I stopped by the food pantry we run out of St Lucien’s and helped the gals there organize some boxes of supplies that had been dropped off and picked up some more batteries for the one family on my street that is still without power. Back at the house I cooked up some eggs and bacon from the cooler and then started a pot of chili for tonight.

https://carolinapublicpress.org/66167/out-of-the-mud-talking-with-storm-survivors-in-yancey-and-mitchell-counties/ That’s my good friend and singer in my band, Jimmy Hinshaw, in the lead photo.

My favorite coffee shop was on our lower street downtown and under 10 feet of water on 9/27. They are working to rebuild their store but it’s going to be a while. This is the side street that leads down to the front of their shop on the right. At this point the water was about up to the awnings over the sidewalk.