2019 Shine Tour Archives - Page 3 of 5

Day 25: On the Road Again

Saying Goodbye: Over the week we were at the farm, Rudy had built quite a LEGO village out of Jared and his brother Jason’s old 30-year-old bucket of legos. “Rudyland” came with a bar (serving juice only) . . . and a bathtub, complete with a lazy Susan apparatus for the guys to stand on...

Day 24: Our Last Day at “The Village”

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Jessi Fredeen 2 comments

Glass /ɡlas/ Learn to pronounce noun 1 1. a hard, brittle substance, typically transparent or translucent, made by fusing sand with soda, lime, and sometimes other ingredients and cooling rapidly. It is used to make windows, drinking containers, and other articles.”a glass door” We got the opportunity on our last day with mom and dad...

Day 23: Such a Night

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Jessi Fredeen

We honestly weren’t sure what to expect from our show at Beefeaters. We knew it was going to be an entirely different kind of show than the one we had at the Model T, but it was the same town and so we just kind of expected maybe something similar. We were wrong. And in...

Day 22: An Ode to My Baby Mine

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Jessi Fredeen 1 comment

When your boy grows fastAnd your boy grows strongThe time you’re allowed with him isn’t that longWhen your boy grows keenAnd your boy grows smartYou must fight to keep focus right on the heartWhen your boy grows long And your boy grows leanYou savor the downtime, the sparse in between When your boy grows restless And your boy...

Day 21: Ponderings

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Jessi Fredeen 1 comment

Is there such thing as too much of a good thing? Honestly don’t mean to be ungrateful or look a gift horse, etc, etc . . . but I’m actually ready to get back to work. After our open mic last night, it just made me feel a bit stir crazy and really want to...

Day 20: The Wheels Are Off!!!

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Jessi Fredeen

Heading to Ithaca, New York today to visit our cousins, Matt and Emma, who, because they are super smart, career-driven, goal-oriented humans, left us in WA to come east and attend the masters program at Cornell University. I “suppose” we’ll support them. Before we left for the 2-hour drive from the farm, we made sure...

Day 19: Haircuts, Legos, and Tractors

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Jessi Fredeen

Nope. Not a strange, children’s country song. Just some of the stuff we did on our day off. An easy morning of lounging, good long baths and showers, fresh haircuts (you didn’t think I could leave our hair alone for 45 days in the road, did you?!?!?), 2 cups of coffee, and laundry. Now to...

Day 18: Hometown Bound!!

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Jessi Fredeen 1 comment

If you’ve ever heard Jared mention his home town, you’ve maybe heard him talk about how it houses several churches and ONE bar. Well, tonight we played at that one bar. The Model T sits at a cross section of “town” that is where Jared’s grandparents, great grandparents, aunt and uncle, brother (used to), and...

Days 15 – 17: Family and the Fourth

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Jessi Fredeen

“I need to go out there and explore. I haven’t visited this village in a long time!” said Rudy as he put on his GPS watch and jumped on his bike and took off. For 15 years I’ve been coming out to the “farm” with my sweet Jared. I have experienced every season here, from...

Days 13 and 14: All. The. Driving.

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Jessi Fredeen

South Dakota, you were absolutely lovely! We said goodbye at a coffee shop called Abe’s Coffee, where our darling bartender from the night before also worked (cool surprise for us), took some pictures with some beautiful painted wings, gassed and iced up, and were on our way. We had seen some really amazing looking pillars...