- My freedom.
- Sympathetic sheriffs.
- The tar and chicken feather shortage.
Sunday, November 30, 2008
Thanksgiving Thoughts
This is the time of year when we reflect on those things for which we are most grateful. I am thankful for:
Monday, November 24, 2008
Doc's Jinglewhapper
![Doc's jinglewhapper](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfrfpFP6hZd9mJjmggy3unFl932ljh30KO9XEaj5QvvLjhOirDeCI01jKdfDQeQ0g4rlQR44hzdMPHhgCaIp0JAvpuPOiqdQNavjhSp9r4f4J0Ver5_Pau3lx2uKj7FuEsYpcI1P3cc4A/s320/jinglewhapper.jpg)
Jinglewhappers are not unique - I have seen them in a variety of styles, depending upon the player's personal taste in noise. My jinglewhapper (pictured here) has a metal bell (sans interior clapper), a hollow wooden thingamajig, two coiled wires stretched tight against a tin pan, and bells that jingle. It rests on a large rubber ball which one can pound on the ground. You create sound by whapping various parts of this contrivance with a drumstick, or by pounding it on the ground, or both.
If you want a jinglewhapper of your own you will have to make it. The fellow who made this one disappeared under mysterious circumstances and I have never found anyone else willing to assemble such a device. Some town authorities have thanked me for not pursuing the matter. The instrument's musicality has never been a real issue. Its primary purpose is to attract an audience, which it does admirably.
Labels:
acoustic,
folk music instrument,
jingle bells,
jinglewhapper,
music
Monday, November 10, 2008
Wizard Water Ameliorates Cattle Dispute!
![OK Corral Shootout Reenactment](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1yGQNZq44PtFNjMMYzJ6Lw96VzDsvqjsYOrVteaxytAfvQftfhW1l0JQ3lXXkjjH1uXDprEPVEeFuv18lKxt4-XQ69nCnzL0oxMkMgFykzzJX8zssLHBtyynold3cYVB3KHHx335VkYc/s200/cartersville08-okcorral-1.jpg)
![OK Corral - man down](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvBOhkcMP8rWQ8YEhwujfIkLKNSIK2wgAM2rfsV2hIBQL_71DcnX7U5prKLQt1GB9KyDnUTYdaSXBiSCdmjP1cWKQ-zhrKISevTX9xQmFesPVW_xaqG0JTyxOr6pssqOZuwmAF6lYi4hc/s200/cartersville08-okcorral-3.jpg)
![OK Corral - another man down](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji9M15zVubSVhRlk0IcmdFD5ZlmVUsX8l1u4HBPrReFbjm1kdY_JnpaK-tBaJD4T7VSsAp0LvxP_lWHYpdxHKLLEtYj_iNUzgd3J9-2rynTbUtnWIUq8wjMyISkS9RlSdBaOjDqTW2EFk/s200/cartersville08-okcorral-2.jpg)
Several of the cowboys fell in the ensuing gunfire. Finally, when everyone ran out of bullets, the matter seemed settled. Then Wyatt noticed a lone miscreant stumbling toward him, pistol cocked. Wyatt’s own Colt revolver was empty. Suddenly, he remembered his bottle of Doc’s Wizard Water©, that wondrous potion with 1,001 uses.
Wyatt quickly pulled the bottle from his saddle bag and threw it at the cowboy. It cracked right on top of his head.
![Bottles of Doc's Wizard Water](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDMEPvYLZgFOThLtch8-GcCz1EkTnuOZFZuKskwZLtXp3Ie3V755XXPFrM5xVtVqcPGHSot4Yeb8b3m5kPWCQ-rrHL-Ti8LnkYC3QmaSjb4cXkfKK8X0riizsL8Yy_FIdu2F3e4guxwoA/s200/doc-wwbottles-1.jpg)
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