Slaving away
Posted on | September 19, 2011
first shitake harvest
Last November, just after Thanksgiving, Pat and I started a small mushroom farm with the help of our friend, Larry Roth. Since then we’ve been slaving away…plowing, weeding, hoeing…not really. We’ve only been waiting, and they finally arrived yesterday. Fresh shitakes! Unless you’ve had them fresh, you can’t imagine the difference between these and the three-week-old mushrooms from Harris Teeter. It was worth the wait. Thanks Larry!
But we have been slaving away at our Christmas record. All the rhythm tracks are done. Sam Frazier, Scott Manring, and Pat Lawrence laid a beautiful and solid foundation. This week we begin tracking the other instruments: flute, trumpet, harp, percussion, hammered dulcimer, etc. And we’ve settled on the name Magnificat. No, that’s not the name of a feline superhero, but Mary’s response to the Angel Gabriel upon learning that she would be the mother of the Messiah. Last Christmas I wrote a song using that text (Luke 1:46-49), and it will be the final song of the record.
Shortly, we’ll have a new page up on this site which will allow you to order copies of Magnificat, as well as our other discs, have them signed, Christmas wrapped, and mailed to your friends! We hope this will help ease your shopping chores for the season.
Speaking of chores, I can hear my green tomatoes hollering at me to make them into chutney. Gotta run!