Friday, July 19, 2019

Burn (watercourse): Have just made a new "Tune Tutorial" for both A and D chanters of Scottish Small Pipes (SSP), where the Great Highland Bagpipe's chanter is in B flat mixolydian, Playing, Practicing and Learning Music re upcoming SSP "Honey in the Bag" CD * * * Scottish Country Dancing, and Music-Making Branch and Class Websites, Intro Party Flyers * * * Don't know where real real time music-making is in the Google road map, World Univ & Sch's Music School with real, real time music-making with time - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Music_School - for all instruments ever in each of all 7,111 known living languages, each a wiki subject page for open teaching and learning, and eventually with live teachers online via Internet


Have just made a new "Tune Tutorial" for both A and D chanters, where the Great Highland Bagpipe's chanter is in B flat mixolydian (often, sometimes, been getting sharper/ brighter ... bagpiping culture is its own world ... Shotts & Dykehead won 'The Worlds' with pipers' low A at 496 Hz in 1996, I've heard, or similar :) ... 

Cape Cod National Seashore: "Tune Tutorials" for the Scottish Small Pipes on both A and D chanters, based on tunes in College of Pipings' Green Tutor, Vol. 1 * * * See at bottom: Scottish smallpipes and borderpipes: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scottish_smallpipes_and_borderpipes Bagpipe Tutorials: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Bagpipe_Tutorials at World Univ & Sch

- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/07/cape-cod-national-seashore-video-tune.html



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Hello Lorne
 (Lorne MacDougall, bagpiper from Carradale, Scotland, who also plays with "The Tannahill Weavers," and with whom I've taken College of Piping Skype piping lessons), 

Thanks for your email this morning. Great to have taken lessons with you in recent years. What do you have in mind by "I could sort out something through my own personal set up if you like though?" (having not heard back yet from Head of Piping Studies' Finlay or NPC Principal Roddy). Do you know Finlay or Roddy, by any chance?
Cheers, Scott 

Just shared this with my mother re piping:
Looks like I'll get a B flat chanter, from Walsh Bagpipes in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, in the mail on Monday - there's a yellow package slip in my PO Box. And I've just finished recording all of the 10 Lessons' tunes from the College of Piping's Green Tutor Vol 1 on the D chanter (after recording all 14 of these tunes on the A chanter recently too). I'll record the remaining 4 tunes in the CoP Vol 1 appendix on the D chanter before I head to Cuttyhunk on Tuesday. This is a kind of video Tune Tutorial for anyone learning the Scottish Small Pipes with a D or A chanter, and a way for me to learn the smaller D chanter (fingers close together!) as well as which tunes are playable on it (key wise, within bagpipe sheet music), as well as getting familiar with recording myself, as well as getting past my perfectionism i learning in a new way. I have Kathryn Tickell's alternative beautiful Northumbrian piping (to GHB piping's 'formalism') in mind - https://youtu.be/HiuMwskhsGk & https://youtu.be/bWkmer6cgiM & https://youtu.be/vmjDbN48_vg - and appreciate too the somewhat completely independent creative piping space she's created culturally for herself, with a sound I also appreciate (a bit out of the box). (My university of Edinburgh tutor, in 2003-2004, and piper, BBC Pipeline's Gary West also appreciates Kathryn Tickell's unique and creative piping and sound I recall; she's also a really good musician). My MacBook Pro's microphone/set up doesn't record these tunes well - so am searching for a new somewhat professional microphone - all toward my upcoming SSP "Honey in the Bag" CD in 2020. In seeking a new Microphone, am thinking comparatively in terms of this USB microphone with MacBook Pro laptop, and seeking people with direct experience with these for piping/woodwinds : 

BLUE MICROPHONES Yeti USB Microphone with Ultimate Recording Bundle - (Steel Red)

I also got the CoP Blue Tutor Vol 3 the other day from House of Bagpipes in SF, which tunes I'm planning to record too, probably with the A chanter (and possibly with the D chanter - for further fingers-close and recording learning). And with the new SSP B flat chanter, I'll be able to both play along with the CoP Piobaireachd Gold Tutor Vol 4 for learning further the last 2 of its 4 tunes, and then may seek to record them in A on SSP as well as Tune Tutorial. This structure is helpful for me. 

I heard back from Lorne MacDougall in Glasgow, with whom I've enjoyably and edifyingly taken Skype bagpipe lessons before, today, and who is happy to help with lessons, - having not heard back from the Piping Centre's Roddy MacLeod/Finlay MacDonald yet. ... (All interesting to think about re World University and School's online piping wiki subjects too - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Bagpipe_Tutorials and https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Pibroch,_Piobaireachd_or_Ce%C3%B2l_M%C3%B3r and https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scottish_smallpipes_and_borderpipes and https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Great_Highland_Bagpipe). Am seeking in lessons too a kind of teacher/producer (including in terms of what would sell CDs? - with blockchain & AI) of my upcoming SSP "Honey in the Bag" CD, and don't know what Roddy / Finlay know as producers, but think Lorne has some experience as a producer (although I'm not clear how oriented he'd be at all aspects of being a "producer"/teacher - eg the business side. Thinking in terms of Stanford, I wonder if Lorne or Finlay were incentivized by a portion of the sales of such a SSP CD whether he/they would be creative in these regards), or know people who might be. All part of a conversation. 

In this learning by recording process re an old pattern in me of inhibitory self-consciousness when not playing perfectly, I play all these tunes well I think - https://www.youtube.com/user/sgkmacleod - but also not every single grace note / doubling is perfect in each tune on both A & D chanters. And for me, it's aiming to play the tunes and grace notes more and more musically (as rhythm section even somehow) and where this will grow with further playing daily and increasing the amount of time I play - without inhibitory self-criticism - is where I'm heading (a kind of "flow" for me and for listeners). I appreciate too building, learning-wise, on the D chanter especially (and with recording as well) with the structure of these 3 CoP Tutors as I head toward developing the tunes I'm planning to play on my "Honey in the Bag" CD which are these - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/02/gobies-scott-macleods-honey-in-bag-cd.html.

Scott


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Hi Lorne, 

thanks for your email. Am set presently for lessons with Finlay at National Piping Centre, but will keep you in mind for the future in a variety of ways. I may have heard back from Finlay after a hiatus, partly thanks to you - so thanks. Am seeking with lessons to focus on making a Scottish Small Piping CD in 2020 I'm tentatively entitling "Honey in the Bag." Conceptually, I could see Catherine Ashcroft's musical partner here as a kind of producer/teacher in a broad sense in this piping (and could be one pattern for me in developing "Honey in the Bag"), since I find the playing of this tune - https://youtu.be/P40YOU8ggJk - beautiful, a similar beauty of which is a kind of goal of mine with the Scottish Small Pipes on my upcoming CD on all tunes. 

Am currently listening to Jean Redpath's "Leaving the Land" - a favorite, which is about Canada and the Carolinas in the States of all places ... in this time of upcoming Scottish independence referendum possibly in 2022. 

Thanks for the Zoom H2n microphone suggestion. In learning further about mics, am going to try the other 2 microphones I own besides the one on my MacBook Pro - the mic on my head set (which ear piece for headset just broke in Las Vegas airport as I headed east), and the mic on my smartphone for better recordings re "Tune Tutorial." Am wondering currently too about condenser mics (e.g. the Walmart YETI mic) vs dynamic mics (which I see most live piping recordings using). Getting a professional setup with my MacBook Pro, and thus USB seems logical for possible CDs and online music making ahead, even possible real real time live person-to-person in something like what comes after Google Hangouts closing August 1, 2019, but its successor starting at the same time. (Don't know where real real time music-making is in the Google road map, but am thinking they'll be the ones. Hopefully World Univ & Sch's Music School will be able to avail itself of real, real time music-making with time - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Music_School - for all instruments ever in each of all 7,111 known living languages, each a wiki subject page for open teaching and learning, and eventually with live teachers). Catherine Ashcroft's tunes use dynamic microphones I think (but not necessarily for a CD). Nice set of Uilleann pipes' sound-wise to my ear in this case. 
(As you may have seen in your Yahoo email address, from an email of mine about 2 hours ago or so to about 60 SF Bay Area Scottish music-making people, and referred to too, "have just made a new "Tune Tutorial" for both A and D chanters, where the Great Highland Bagpipe's chanter is in B flat mixolydian (often, sometimes, been getting sharper/ brighter ... bagpiping culture is its own world ... Shotts & Dykehead won 'The Worlds' with pipers' low A at 496 Hz in 1996, I've heard, or similar :) ... 

Cape Cod National Seashore: "Tune Tutorials" for the Scottish Small Pipes on both A and D chanters, based on tunes in College of Pipings' Green Tutor, Vol. 1 * * * See at bottom: Scottish smallpipes and borderpipes: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scottish_smallpipes_and_borderpipes Bagpipe Tutorials: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Bagpipe_Tutorials at World Univ & Sch

- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/07/cape-cod-national-seashore-video-tune.html ")


Am continuing to seek a partner here to begin a family. Are you starting a family having kids yet already, Lorne, by any chance? I'd really like to begin a family, although I don't rue not having started before now (even given that I'm going to be a mature father when they get to be in their 20s:). On here too with CC-4 MIT OpenCourseWare-centric World University and School - re Scotland WUaS too! - as well as my actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic project! 

Cheers, Scott



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'Tune Tutorials'
as experimental videos for the

Scottish Small Pipes
on A & D chanters
playing all 14 tunes from the College of Piping's Tutor, Vol. 1
for those learning the SSP anew,
where the Great Highland Bagpipe (GHB) and its practice chanter too are typically in B flat mixolydian when playing with other non-GHB instruments.

All of these tunes are played with a single drone sound - in A with the A chanter, and in D with the D chanter. The SSP combo drone on my Walsh Scottish Small Pipes - which can be set to either an E or D - for creating a chord sound with the drones (and potentially only with specific bagpipe tunes in that key) is not used in these "Tune Tutorials."

I haven't yet played the SSP B flat mixolydian chanter, by will soon.


Scots Wha Ha'e - First Measure - from The College of Piping's Green Tutor, Vol. 1, on the Scottish Small Pipes'
A chanter
http://youtu.be/LmarClyJHng
D chanter
https://youtu.be/ehdXoh1GIhk


Scots Wha Ha'e - Second Measure
A chanter
http://youtu.be/ZLHNzkkeO2Q
D chanter
https://youtu.be/qYI3Vd45Hcc



The Brown Haired Maiden - First Measure
A
http://youtu.be/JMBQYdHX4pw
D
https://youtu.be/HTdFdHcZIA4


The Brown Haired Maiden - Second Measure
A
http://youtu.be/tqLK_M-kn74
D
https://youtu.be/l6VyubdOYks



The High Road to Gairloch - First Measure - 2/4 March
A
https://youtu.be/fDZUPQFuVxQ
D
https://youtu.be/wAqKEpLykCI



The High Road to Gairloch - Second Measure - 2/4 March
A
https://youtu.be/ohwGdOwR3LA
D
https://youtu.be/tpn39nRBZN8




Highland Laddie - First Measure - 2/4 March
A
https://youtu.be/hrRFoppFTjI
D
https://youtu.be/iv5S5eC-brE


Highland Laddie - Second Measure - 2/4 March
A
https://youtu.be/T5BuL3LuBrQ
D
https://youtu.be/GjDb6YK1NWs




Highland Laddie - First Measure - 2/4 March (easy tempo)
A
https://youtu.be/6c4JRHzfGOg

Highland Laddie - Second Measure - 2/4 March (easy tempo)
A
https://youtu.be/P9DjYPcjngw




The Carles Wi' The Breeks - First Measure - 6/8 Slow Air
A
https://youtu.be/0yj7tjOQG5g
D
https://youtu.be/DlALBp6ekno




The Carles Wi' The Breeks - Second Measure - 6/8 Slow Air
A
https://youtu.be/Rk9UTrqSwcc
D
https://youtu.be/qL7ND57puzM




The 79th's Farewell to Gibraltar - First Measure - 2/4 March
A
https://youtu.be/VZHoE-L8rB8
D
https://youtu.be/bTNYYGY-2xc



The 79th's Farewell to Gibraltar - Second Measure - 2/4 March
A
https://youtu.be/FBAd2MzU2CM
D
https://youtu.be/EIVPeEbt9sQ



The 79th's Farewell to Gibraltar - Third Measure - 2/4 March
A
https://youtu.be/fLUnYL3baDA
D
https://youtu.be/Td_20JIhr7U



The 79th's Farewell to Gibraltar - Fourth Measure - 2/4 March
A
https://youtu.be/BE6fYa8j9Bs
D
https://youtu.be/JeN4-sJ04FU



The Earl of Mansfield - First Measure - 2/4 March
A
https://youtu.be/vExepuv9XwY
D
https://youtu.be/n_kUWmvWaFw



The Earl of Mansfield - Second Measure - 2/4 March
A
https://youtu.be/AoeVorO2Drg
D
https://youtu.be/_7qwbFZXRcA



The Earl of Mansfield - Third Measure - 2/4 March
A
https://youtu.be/fqKqdoxC3HI
D
https://youtu.be/EuOcVnQwack




Inverness Rant - First Measure - Strathspey
A
https://youtu.be/QmutM1URIrM
D
https://youtu.be/ak-DNS4fZbo



Inverness Rant - Second Measure - Strathspey
A
https://youtu.be/X9NFuJfzOPI
D
https://youtu.be/dHGXi1OwLZQ




The Piper of Drummond - First Measure - 4/4 Reel
A
https://youtu.be/sb3e7ulbrFg
D
https://youtu.be/7G2KGWQ99E8



The Piper of Drummond - Second Measure - 4/4 Reel
A
https://youtu.be/sSKm7MIAhdc
D
https://youtu.be/ZQtIfDzVCVQ



The Green Hills of Tyrol - First Measure - 3/4 Retreat March
A
https://youtu.be/xPmZZHnk3uA
D
https://youtu.be/eQPGJfWCn90



The Green Hills of Tyrol - Second Measure - 3/4 Retreat March
A
https://youtu.be/oQucLhRH1bQ
D
https://youtu.be/XZbrgQ7_UfY



Atholl Highlanders - 6/8 March
A
https://youtu.be/Rem2AWJ1aps
D
https://youtu.be/Se8FJkfSmzo



Aiken Drum - 2/4 March
A
https://youtu.be/W5USCe7DKis
D
https://youtu.be/SeU4lnblK0s



Piobaireachd of Donald Dubh - 6/8 March
A chanter
https://youtu.be/WEWTPWMJT2E
D chanter
https://youtu.be/4R0h6kA3wmo



Blue Bonnets - 6/8 March
A chanter
https://youtu.be/TVptnxJzF3A
D chanter
https://youtu.be/RaPlCVo79zc



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Good morning, M!

Just playing new tunes through on my D chanter from the College of Piping's Blue Tutor, Vol. 3 - nice tunes, and good for becoming familiar with the smaller D chanter (without yet using the Combo drone tuned to A to create a 'chord' which combo' drone tone will only work with some tunes in some tune's keys). Lovely tunes! Am playing them with these Guidelines for Practicing in mind - http://scottmacleod.com/GuidelinesPracticingMusicalInstrument.htm - and am up to #4 -

"4 Concentrate when you practice.
Yo-yo says join feelings into your music when you feel bad, to integrate your feelings with your mind and body"

 and even slightly dancing a bit to them (re Yo Yo Ma's feelings' comment:).

Glad to have heard back from Finlay in Glasgow this morning.  We've scheduled our first lesson for W Aug. 7th at 4pm in Scotland - re "Guidelines for Practicing" #1. And #2 and #3 are currently happening via my playing through the Blue Tutor.

#5 Relax and practice slowly.

... am doing this ... #6 too ... and so on ...

Liking the D chanter, but back to the A chanter as well, for the 2nd half of playing this morning. Am seeking to play for about an hour (since it's wet outside re gardening! But am seeking to garden as well when things dry off a little more).

Going to try the other 2 microphones I have with me besides the one on my MacBook Pro - the mic on my head set (which ear piece for headset just broke in Las Vegas airport as I headed east), and the mic on my smartphone, for better recordings re Blue Book Vol 3 as upcoming "Video Tune Tutorial" on both chanters ...

Thanks to Wynton Marsalis and Yo Yo Ma for these "Guidelines for Practicing" :)

Are you playing recorder with your recorder group now that you're back from UUA Summer Institute?

On with playing further now! And looking forward to seeing you soon - a week from today!

L, Scott




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Scottish Country Dancing, and Music-Making Branch and Class Websites, Intro Party Flyers


Heather MacKay
Thu, Jul 18, 12:41 PM (1 day ago)
to Berkeley, me

Hi all,

The web gods granted me temporary access to update the class listings on  the Branch website.  So that is done (though the class's own web page  still needs updating). For future reference -- anyone who is a teacher  or class manager should be able to log in to the website to make updates.

Heather


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Scott MacLeod
Thu, Jul 18, 2:14 PM (1 day ago)
to Patti, David, Bruce, Barbara, Jonathan, Linda, Alex, Salina, Heather, Berkeley

Wow, the web gods have indeed been good to you, Heather! May they also be so good to you eternally into the future - deus ex machina (i.e. dragon-drawn chariot sent by the sun god - the power of language!), and pas de basque too! :) Glad too the Branch is developing fruitful policy for web updates by teachers!

Should the Branch begin to use Google Sites for web sources, I'd particularly be interested in collaborating re http://worlduniversityandschool.org and related https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scottish_Country_Dancing school in multiple languages, for ex. ... Had a bit of trouble with getting DNS CNAME setting verified further, and working, with worlduniversityandschool.org's host 238+ days ago, so this is the kind of collaborating I have in mind.

Web god cheers - dragon-drawn chariot sent by the sun god - (You-rippa-dese, you-menda-dese as they say, literally translated by author / title as Euripides > 'Eumenides' (by Aeschylus) > Aristophanes ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deus_ex_machina :) So be it in the RISQUE:) Berkeley Branch

Happy SCD and related music-makings :),
Scott

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1150876450343415808

Are these digital markings on this "Dancing Lego Robot" (link: https://twitter.com/LEGO_Education/status/1129348406760099846) twitter.com/LEGO_Education… paralleling autonomous vehicle driving A.I. software the beginnings of virtual Lego robotics in #RealisticVirtualEarth #RealisticVirtualEarthforRobotics ie re WeDo 2.0 & Mindstorms EV3 for education?

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1129792518965661696


--
- Scott MacLeod
- http://scottmacleod.com

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Hi Heather and All,

Added some of these great SCD photos here ... (hoping that's what they're for!)
Men NOT in kilts at Scottish Country Dancing in Berkeley's Monday night class ~ https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scottish_Country_Dancing … -

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1153037996263952388



Men NOT in kilts at Scottish Country Dancing in a SF Bay Area RSCDS class ~ https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scottish_Country_Dancing … -

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1153038403983855623



Men NOT in kilts at Scottish Country Dancing in a San Francisco RSCDS class ~ https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scottish_Country_Dancing -

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1153038610175856640



Man in kilt! at Scottish Country Dancing in a San Francisco RSCDS class ~ https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scottish_Country_Dancing … -

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1153038862949781504


SCD Cheers, Scott






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M, 

How's your day going? And what are you up to this weekend? 

Made my first attempt at recording "My Home" in a Google group video Hangout - newly with my little ORANGE headset microphone, and with limited bandwidth from Cuttyhunk. "My Home" is the lovely first tune in the CoP Blue Book Vol. 3, and am curious how Hangouts' recordings will go (where Hangouts are phasing out on August 1, 2019 but will be immediately replaced by something similar).

Here's the test - "My Home (mic TEST) - 6/8 Slow Air - on the Scottish Small Pipes in A" - https://youtu.be/c3BWubw3k2w - where the little orange microphone basically feeds directly into the Hangout,  instead of being independent of the video recording, which is probably the direction I'll head with recording for my "Honey in the Bag" CD ...

My "orange microphone" sound quality may be a little better than the MacBook Pro's microphone, and also with the drone sound, but it's still not great. 

Probably worth seeking out a dynamic microphone, and find software on my computer - possibly Garage Band - which can feed into it. My "orange microphone" is probably a very little 'dynamic' microphone (in contrast to 'condenser' microphones), and it may be possible to feed it into Garage Band directly (and still do Hangout video recordings) ... 

Suns out ... time to get out gardening before it gets too hot! 

Love, Scott
  
" "My Home" (mic TEST) - 6/8 Slow Air - on the Scottish Small Pipes in A "
https://youtu.be/c3BWubw3k2w


Looks like in this Scottish Small Pipes' recording I just came across on Youtube that one dynamic microphone is used for both chanter and drones, and which works, and that the video is separate, by way of comparison -
Mike Katz & Mike Whellans playing Scottish small bagpipes & harmonica
https://youtu.be/ui5h_ip_Un8

I like the improvisational aspect of these two folks playing together.


-- 
- Scott MacLeod 



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Hi M,

Next Scottish Small Pipes' recording exploration at an easy tempo for learners ...

MacBookPro Microphone into Garage Band (as some audio file format) uploaded to Sound Cloud - https://soundcloud.com/scottmacleod-com - as "Tune Tutorials" for the CoP Blue Tutor, Vol 3 ... with its 21 tunes on both A & D chanters (whereas the CoP Green Tutor, Vol 1 has 14 tunes ... and the CoP Gold Tutor, Vol 4. has 4 Piobaireachds ... )

Did your recorder group at UUA Summer Institute experiment with recordings at all? (I bet Oberlin has great recording equipment:)

L, Scott



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M,

Think I'm heading eventually for one excellent dynamic microphone (the familiar kind, with 1/8 inch adapter into earphone slot in MacBook Pro - for both chanter and drones) ... as part of the planning process for "Honey in the Bag" CD (with blockchain ledger and Google Doodle AI software for generating a few harmonies on sheet music?)

Next Scottish Small Pipes' recording exploration at an easy tempo for learners ...

MacBookPro Microphone into Garage Band (as some audio file format) uploaded to Sound Cloud - https://soundcloud.com/scottmacleod-com - as "Tune Tutorials" for the CoP Blue Tutor, Vol 3 ... with its 21 tunes on both A & D chanters (whereas the CoP Green Tutor, Vol 1 has 14 tunes ... and the CoP Gold Tutor, Vol 4. has 4 Piobaireachds ... ) 

Cheers, Scott


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July 18, 2019

To my brother, Sandy MacLeod: 

 So very nice to see you, Sandy! And thank you so much for coming to Cuttyhunk to open the house! The house looks like its in great shape too.

That cooked kale in the refrigerator was so delicious as well. What's in it besides kale and garlic? At the Church fair yesterday, I got 2 slips for the next Cuttyhunk Church recipes' book ("Cuttyhunk Favorites," another recipe book was published in '79 by the Cuttyhunk United Methodist Church; 2nd March 1979 edition (1979)), and I'd consider writing up this kale recipe as a healthy recipe to submit (but am also thinking of adding a blackberry jam recipe, a rose hip jelly recipe, or a salad recipe, but probably not striper or blue fish jerky ... any good recipes come to mind?:) ... all kind of computer programs! :0)

Global warming summers are still here on Cuttyhunk ... we've been living in fog and rain with warm humidity in the air since I got here - very different from the beautiful clear blue sky weather with 12 knot winds in the afternoon (great for sailing), with occasional storms, of the 1970s (but would like too to see how this is expressed in the data) - so will seek to get an hour of gardening in per day when it's not pouring, dripping or too wet. (Whereas in the SF Bay Area on the ridge in Canyon 94516 where I live, it hasn't been unbearably hot from noon-10 for this whole summer, compared basically to the last 11 summers, such that I even wonder whether some hypothetical "MIT weather engineers" have begun to figure out how to engineer the weather in the SF Bay Area, but it's probably just variation ... not engineering it here on the east coast however apparently). Seth and his yard crews don't yet appear to be around much - per your note, Sandy. 

May see if I can get a Brita pitcher, as well as a new CD set of Yo Yo Ma playing the Bach cello suites (either the PBS version or the one with a pink cover) since the current CD is skipping a fair amount due to its age. For a long time too on Cuttyhunk, I've tasted a very slight aluminum flavor in the water, and associate this with work done on the town water well at the top of Bayberry Road for even 10-15 years. I think a Brita with its brand charcoal filters would take care of this (and much else in the water). Am an ongoing appreciator of the Gator 'Dirt Devil' hand vacuum which is still going strong (and helping to clean this house under foot!)

Nice too to chat on the dock, Sandy. Captain Sandy MacLeod, of both a 30 Catalina 30 sailboat, and a 40 foot 25 ton passenger boat, the Lily B, to Bustins' island, Maine - https://www.google.com/maps/place/Bustins+Island,+Freeport,+ME+04032/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x4cad7fd6013f69f7:0x2e2280a4f9bdaa09?sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjnkNu90L7jAhXwx1kKHaaCBj8Q8gEwC3oECAwQBA - with its approximately 117 summer cottages! Seems like Jono Billings could be a really great resource and teacher even for knowledge re captain-ing bigger boats! (Am going to go check out boats soon down at the CYC!). 

Thanks again Sandy, and very nice to see and talk with you especially! Glad you're doing well too! 

L, Scott









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Scots Gaelic has the word bùrn, also cognate, but which means "fresh water"; the actual Gaelic for a "burn" is allt (sometimes anglicised as "ault" or "auld" in placenames.)











creek    

IPA: /kriːk/, /krik/, kriːk, krik, /krɪk/, krɪk; Type: noun;







  • allt
     { noun masculine }







  • bàgh
     { noun feminine }







  • sruth
     { noun masculine }



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