2016 Golden Lion Awards

Doggone, I’m only wearing ol Jeans!  Congratulations to Gu…👏👏👏!  Who knows what wonderful thing you will do with a band in a box…it’ll be exciting to see what comes next, besides maple syrup, of course! Congratulations to Kaeleigh👏👏👏! You’ve shared so much and have obviously worked hard at fiddling excellence! I’m always happy to see what you’re playing! Of course I’m humbled to be among the chosen…and WOW to all other participants at BGD. Everybody here has so much to offer.  Whoops, am I rambling…where’s Rodger…I don’t like to ramble alone, and next time…we need some competition here on these long and winding posts…but, now it’s celebration time, and new year time…time to get our batteries recharged and priorities organized. Come on, guys ( and that includes us girls too), a new year is here…time to make music, share music, learn music, breathe music!  Thank you John and Great Scott, too, for the wonderful place we have here because of your dedication, hard work, and open arms.  Next award ceremony I’ll dress up…I’ll wear NEW jeans😏!

Congratulations,

I haven’t posted in The Lions Den yet but I have been inspired to attempt learning some of the songs others do. Many I’ve never heard before seeing them here.

Thanks to all of you brave folks!

Mike

Lots of fun. Congrats everyone. Thanks BGD!

WOW.  I am just happy for honorable mention. Congratulations to ALL ! ! !

On no, you mean now we have to protect our ‘golden wind bag’ ribbon?  That’s going to take some doing Cricket!  After sifting through all that for the last year the guys in the white suits with the butterfly nets are probably hauling John away…

Wow ! I must give credit to Jasmyn my beautiful wife and friend who by agknoleging the strange creepy sound of the stainless steel pot full of water on the fire place , made me sample and add originality to this song .  I am at lost of words how happy childlike feeling in me receiving the gift 🎁 Of Sound recording ( big WOW), hopefully now I will be able to conclude the original with some Algonquin vocals and slip it back into the Den .

thank you John and Great Scott , feeling like a million tunes ! Love you all s much, congrats to all and CONGRATS TO KAELEIGH , THE REAL lions Den Lioness !

Rodger, better think of something to say…we have a job to do on here and can’t let the long-winded conversations slip away from us!  Like I said to Rock…my problem is that everything reminds me of something else.  Rock, are you staying close by enough to read here?  Hope things are going as well as they can with you and your dad and family.

Kaeleigh — You have truly come a long way to being a wonderful fiddler.  Your dedication to practice and your acceptance of, and, utilization of critique advice offered to you has clearly demonstrated your continual improvement in every video you posted.  I hope your award and prize inspires you to do great things!

Cricket — I somehow knew that Rosin would be the first thing on your shopping list.  After all these years, you deserve a decent block of quality rosin.  The wall hanger is a great choice, as is the soundpost adjuster.  Life is too short to go without the simple things that add a bit of happiness it.

Bien joué, Gu!   I guess now we will have to hold your feet to the fire in hope of you coming up with some truly outstanding tunes this year.  No pressure, of course!  Many happy and rewardingly creative hours of music making await you.

🙂  🙂   🙂

Yeah, hey…gettin’ hungry here…got any virtual pork rinds or something?

Anything chocolate sounds pretty good to me.  Those Woodnen of the World have a lodge down the road from here…we never heard of it before and don’t know what it is they do, but we see them in there st night, standing together like when people sing in a church house.  We never could figure out what they do…it’s a very small building, but we see them in there when we drive by at night. I’ll tell them we need the entire building next time!  If there’s gonna be chocolate, we need lotsa space!

That’s a really crazy story.  Sounds kinda like an experience everybody oughta have once in their life…lol.

Somebody was telling me the other day they went into an ice cream shop and ordered a banana split, and the kids working in there had no idea what it was, how to go about making one, it what to charge. We were laughing that it must be a baby boomer thing, not a millennial thing. I make them at home for a special treat, but not often, and just for Mike and me. My daughter never could have anything like that because she’s allergic to milk proteins.

Oh, what fun!  Congratulations and great job, Kaeleigh and everyone who got awards – and thank you again, Dr. Cockman, for a wonderful site!

Deep fried Snickers Bar?? Fried in what, pray tell??

Well, …OK…I guess? (Maybe)

Second thought I think I’ll dig out a box of chocolate ice cream & put some whipped cream on it, now that my flapjacks & ham has settled a little…actually that will be after my carrot pie  with whipped cream…

How cool! Congrats to all!

Yayyyyyyy ! I mean , YEEEEEEEhaw ! I got the box in the real mail today , I am so happy , now , I have a Geek friend , she doesnt mind me calling her that , Janine , she will get me built a new computer just for music and Band in a Box .

Merci encore , thank you again , and again , most righteous Bluegrassdaddy.com  , John your the best :O)

Deep fried snickers are my all time favorite at the fair.  A few pointers. . .freeze the snickers before coating it in batter. . .and wrapping them in crescent rolls or biscuit dough is a lot less messy (I learned from experimentation)  a little butter on them when they come out of the grease and roll in powdered sugar yum yum  And I also use the mini-snickers bars. . .much easier handling and because they are small you can eat more of them