Champagne Sunday
2022 Spring Tour, Tales from the Road
This is literally the BEST way to ever wake up. The cat was there too, but mostly to laugh at how foolish we all looked. Also, this is a VERY difficult bed to want to leave when covered with puppy scritches and licks. But, alas, we HAD to get up and do life. Laundry was...
2022 Spring Tour, Tales from the Road
After saying our goodbyes to Erik, Jared and I had happy feet and needed to get moving. We were meeting our friends, Brooke and Joe (Mom and Dad to the “Montana Brothers”) for dinner that night, but wanted to get some stuff done in Missoula during the day. Last summer when we were here, we...
2022 Spring Tour, Tales from the Road
At our show at the Grange, we met a man named Eric who had kindly offered us a guest room in his place if it got too cold to sleep in our truck. Gretchen also has always offered up her place, but with her three cats, it’s a bit of a rough go for me...
2022 Spring Tour, Tales from the Road
Today was a bit tough to start because the night before the temperature got down to 12° in our truck. Even though we are pretty well outfitted with warm sleep gear, that was still very cold. So, we stiffly made our way into Gretchen’s to take our sweet time to get ready for the gig....
2022 Spring Tour, Tales from the Road
Some days are really just painfully normal, even when we’re out on tour. Also, there’s not too much we can do when it’s snowing and in the 20’s during the day. “Come in the spring” they said, “It’s beautiful here” they said… well played, Montana. We’re bringing snow gear next time. Anyway, since our days...
2022 Spring Tour, Tales from the Road
Our hostess, Gretchen, had to go back to work today, but luckily for me, one of her jobs is teaching yoga on Mon, Wed, and Fri in the morning before she starts doing massages for the remainder of the day. Obviously, all of this AFTER caring for the farm animals, baling hay, chainsawing something, baking...
2022 Spring Tour, Tales from the Road
Rest. Crossword. Rest. Crossword. Listen to music. Share music. Cry. Laugh. Repeat. 2 Manhattan’s. Bed. No pictures of this day, so here is our darling Clementine back home to appease the visual learners in the crowd. It’s a rough life, but someone’s got to do it.
2022 Spring Tour, Tales from the Road
“Cows On Pause” As we were driving through the last of many cow pastures on our way into Missoula, I made an observation that I shared with Jared. Every time we passed a group of cows and we were going the speed limit (or more sometimes), it looked as though someone pushed the pause button...
2022 Spring Tour, Tales from the Road
What I need you to understand about our friend/hostess Gretchen, is that she is a full-blown, modern-day pioneer woman. When Jared and I sauntered in around 9:30 from the truck (where snow was falling all around us), there was coffee ready, vitamins for Jared to take, frittata in the oven warming, and a welcome love...
2022 Spring Tour, Tales from the Road
Day 10: That’s a wrap! (continued) We rolled into Gretchen’s driveway late. We thought she and her daughter, Lily, would be asleep, so we crept into the house to use the bathroom and were greeted with friendly tail wags and familiar “Hellos”! We were back in comfortable company and couldn’t be happier. The big and...
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