tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-171463532024-03-14T08:01:53.078-07:00Ric Seaberg's Useful Information/BlogWelcome to my blog. I have had a great time cranking out these entries, which basically amount to a sort of autobiography. I invite you to cruise my "Memoirs and Blather" below. Thanks for stopping by.
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Warm Regards, Ric SeabergRic Seaberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08112232186296844385noreply@blogger.comBlogger226125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17146353.post-79543570897557989142023-07-31T07:15:00.005-07:002023-08-01T07:24:36.151-07:00Gardening in Seabrook<p> </p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">General Information </span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Ric Seaberg</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">July 28, 2023</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p class="p4" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 9px 0px 8px;"></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2B-fRMbXsiy-bozshuavLCvXSro7MENu1cvE9szkVhV-RQ2_VYgDv_JTk5oqIvERj6jAanbNHcgZ3wKO9RNt7XRmB0BIUxT_a6mJ63SOI79_Qrz_oom-TDRD5NqKM0JoLveI8zmkxEfQMPM6ulhnc74BYv4BGcbtsNojMXFgGXmwrVi44v_5gPA/s3088/B5380E40-C841-4BDA-AD7D-3EE0AE94A01A.heic" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2320" data-original-width="3088" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2B-fRMbXsiy-bozshuavLCvXSro7MENu1cvE9szkVhV-RQ2_VYgDv_JTk5oqIvERj6jAanbNHcgZ3wKO9RNt7XRmB0BIUxT_a6mJ63SOI79_Qrz_oom-TDRD5NqKM0JoLveI8zmkxEfQMPM6ulhnc74BYv4BGcbtsNojMXFgGXmwrVi44v_5gPA/s320/B5380E40-C841-4BDA-AD7D-3EE0AE94A01A.heic" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Today I met with a new drip irrigation client and in speaking with her, realized I should write down my thoughts about gardening in Seabrook, to possibly help new SB homeowners and residents who love gardening. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Soil:</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">If you dig on your property to add a plant, you may find top soil first, perhaps some gravel under that, and ultimately, clay. Clay does not drain well, and we get a lot of moisture in SB during the colder months. So it is important to plant your specimens by digging a good wide, deep hole and adding a very high quality soil for the plant to root in. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Drip Irrigation:</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Even though we experience a lot of moisture during the colder months (and sometimes in the warmer months!), the spring and summer months do dry out the soil (and pots and planters!), so if you want your plants to “thrive”, rather than just “survive” (or even wither away!), get your drip working well!</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Wind and Salt:</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Ah! The edge of the continent! We love the Pacific! Clamming! Running our dogs on the sand! The natural raw beauty of the coast! Even stormy weather!! But both the wind and salt can wreak havoc on plants. Certain plants do better than others in our environment and exposure to the sea. For example, when Marie and I first moved to SB, in 2018, the landscaping plan for our house on the farm included a nice planting of many climbing jasmine, on the front and side of our house, (but directly exposed to the wind), a plant we love and which we had very successfully grown in Portland. We loved that idea! But alas, by the end of our first year, all 7 of them were showing that they were not going to make it! So we pulled them all out, gave several away, and two of them we replanted behind our garage (we now call this area “The Protection Section”). Today, they are thriving and climbing up trellises I made with driftwood. Even blooming! They are on the east wall of our garage! We have also had great luck with blooming daphne in the protection section. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikEepzZEoL1rQXjY_OOyEE7LjFbjjr8b2oV5K9mcyKFsxTFXy1Mm2IlOM_UQEOdT75w06g259JVJal7Sh5PVmEmzYB9XMwJZ7PppcNfnd7aCXNubjBTd6VPOUgyNPf_CjJtbaZS8VGU98EhwV8XM0l16rOmYFF4btVGFKI4K6ZLw9JTMza8Jj5yQ/s4032/7D7C41D4-363B-41DA-BB9F-BCF7D5597FB9.heic" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikEepzZEoL1rQXjY_OOyEE7LjFbjjr8b2oV5K9mcyKFsxTFXy1Mm2IlOM_UQEOdT75w06g259JVJal7Sh5PVmEmzYB9XMwJZ7PppcNfnd7aCXNubjBTd6VPOUgyNPf_CjJtbaZS8VGU98EhwV8XM0l16rOmYFF4btVGFKI4K6ZLw9JTMza8Jj5yQ/w356-h240/7D7C41D4-363B-41DA-BB9F-BCF7D5597FB9.heic" width="356" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="p4" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 9px 0px 8px;"><br /></p><p class="p4" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 9px 0px 8px;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p4" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 9px 0px 8px;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Plants:</span></p><p class="p4" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 9px 0px 8px;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Here are some plants that have proven to do well even in wind and salt. I am certain there are many others that would also do well, not included here. Try something I haven’t included!</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Hydrangeas</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Yarrow (yellow, pink, white)</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Pine trees and shrubs </span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Shasta daisies</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Echinacea</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Wild roses (Rosa)</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Nine bark</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Sedum</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Blueberries</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Lavender (English and Spanish)</span></p><div style="text-align: left;">Rosemary</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">Toadflax</span></div><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Alstromeria</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Aster</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Fuschia (hardy varieties)</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Rush </span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Curly Wurly Rush</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Oak leaf Hydrangea</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Coltsfoot</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Boxwood</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Myrtle</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Escallonia</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Western Fern (native prefer shade)</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Sedge</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Salal</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Huckleberry </span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Grasses (some, not all)</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">New Zealand flax</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Mahonia</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Fireweed</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Coreopsis (deer don’t like it!)</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Armeria (Sea Thrift)</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Euphorbia </span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Primroses (best in pots)</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Narcissus (daffodils)</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Geum </span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Dogwood (Cornus, red stick and green stick, very hardy)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Groundcover:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Wild strawberry groundcover</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Creeping Jenny</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Ajuga</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Red blooming strawberry</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Pink blooming strawberry </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Climbers:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Honeysuckle</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Evergreen Clematis </span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Akebia (hardy and underrated!)</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Roses (best in a large well drained pot)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; 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Apparently there is a known or fictional physical condition on this here mighty orb called "The Meat Sweats", which may or may not befall you after you have eaten an entire rack of baby backs, er something, maybe a whole Costco chicken which a friend of mine claims to have done on at least one occasion, or perhaps the time you slammed the Emperor's 32oz. cut of Prime Rib as outlined on the menu at John Ballzell's Prime Rib World in Duluth. Whatev. I am a meat eater by trade, and I do not believe I have ever experienced "the meat sweats". I did, however, totally crack up the first time I saw talented actress/comedian and insurance advertiser Stephanie Courtney in this <a href="https://www.ispot.tv/ad/7sFL/progressive-flos-family">Progressive Insurance commercial</a> mention said condition. So funny.<br />
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When we moved out here to Grays Harbor County, in 2018, we didn't exactly experience culture shock, but Marie and I have both noticed some very interesting cultural stuff, which we enjoy chatting about when we see or experience something that seems to be a Grays Harbor "thing". Like, for example, take chicken gizzards. <br />
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Not one of my faves. I mean I'll eat'em. However, yeah, not big on the gizzards. But I swear to you there are what I feel is an abnormal number of restaurants out here that feature the lowly gizzard on their menu. Not feelin' the cheeseburger today? Hell! Go with the gizzards then! Cuz you may want to chew each one of them somewhere in the neighborhood of 9000 infinity. Everybody's doin' it! I guess. "Did you want some ranch or fry sauce with those?"<br />
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Another interesting offering, which I myself am so very down with, is "Prime Rib Nights", at many eateries here. So since I love me a big ol' hunk-o-rare-prime-rib, just about any night, maybe a few nights in a row, thought I would throw down a list of such places and when they are serving Prime Rib, here in Grays County, below. Since you, and I, might wanna give gettin' the blinder meat sweats a try.<br />
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So here is a list of our local prime rib joints. My goal is to have one piece of prime rib at them all, and then start over. I have them organized by days of the week. In case you want to go every day for a week.<br />
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Emily's Restaurant at Quinault Beach Casino serves prime rib every day of the week! That's your go-to prime rib place for Mondays. 78 State Rte. 115, Ocean Shores, WA<br />
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The Welcome Inn, 520 23rd St., Hoquiam, WA.<br />
The Seagate Restaurant, 4594 State Rte 109, Pacific Beach, WA.<br />
Duffy's Restaurant, 1605 Simpson Ave, Aberdeen, WA<br />
Emily's, above.<br />
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Duffy's Restaurant, 1605 Simpson Ave, Aberdeen, WA<br />
Emily's, above.<br />
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Duffy's Restaurant, 1605 Simpson Ave, Aberdeen, WA<br />
The Welcome Inn, 520 23rd St., Hoquiam, WA.<br />
The Green Lantern Pub, 2119 State Rte 109, Copalis, WA<br />
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Simpson Avenue Grill, <span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;">825 Simpson Ave, </span><span face=""helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px;">Hoquiam, WA 98550</span><br />
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Duffy's Restaurant, 1605 Simpson Ave, Aberdeen, WA<br />
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If I have made any errors here or if you have other info please contact me at <a href="mailto:ricseaberg@gmail.com">ricseaberg@gmail.com</a><br />
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<span style="text-align: left;">And lastly, and perhaps not very shockingly, I once wrote and recorded a song that has prime rib in it, well, "rib-eye steak" to be exact, which is grilled prime rib, titled </span><a href="https://ricseaberg.com/track/1960769/food-chain" style="text-align: left;">"Food Chain", here.</a></td></tr></tbody></table></div>
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My last piece of important advice before you go on your merry way and get this drip thing on your resume is to use a long fire lighter to slightly warm your 1/4" line before you add barbs or emitters. Way easier! Pictured above!</div>
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I am gonna stop right here because fo reals you will need to do some research beyond my tract! Type drip irrigation into your browser and give it an evening. It's so worth it. My vintage nasturtiums in that window box on my man cave are already going crazy cuz they get proper water and basically all I do is stand back and watch them get full and beautiful and hanging over the basket. It's at these times that I thank The Gods of Drip Irrigation! Happy to answer any questions. Text 503-887-0111. Ric</div>
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Ric Seaberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08112232186296844385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17146353.post-37252421360579876492016-03-26T11:55:00.000-07:002016-04-07T20:46:03.152-07:00A Tour of My Old Man Armchair<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Marie suddenly burst forth into sarcastic laughter last eve as we communed by the TV, dog curled up, "Wives with Knives" or some such mindless fluff on the tube, she lying on the couch, and me all cozy and comfy with my lap quilt, sitting in my completely awesome Old Man Armchair. "Whut" says I, already vibin' that she is gonna reflect on my chair situation. "Your chair", she giggles out loud, it's a damn Old Man Chair. "That is correct", says I, all confident and comfortable and assertive, within arm's reach of the remotes, a piping hot cup of Puerh tea, pens, sharpies, fresh pencils with good erasers, my back scratcher, glucose test kit, computer, wireless headphones, a selection of baseball caps, mail and other clerical, Tums, glasses supplies, Kleenex, my cane, my purse, basically an organized sexagenarian's armada of hard candy and teeth picky things and electronic stuff, oh yeah I forgot the Bose bluetooth tune box, all ready for me to connect my iPhone and rock out to the Weepies "Hideaway". And a power strip with 2 USB ports. "You betcha Orabelle", I goes, "everything an old fart could possibly need right here by my side, quit lookin' at me". So to appease my pluperfect partner's chastisement and feminine sensibility, today I removed 5 cup hooks from the compound, which I had screwed into the door, for I had admittedly, at some point, maybe gotten a teensy bit carried away with the cup hooks. Here are some more photos. I mean of my Old Man Armchair and environs.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Is this not awesome? The chair is an official "Relax the Back" zero gravity armchair. There is a knob below the left arm that engages the electric motor which raises the front of the chair and takes me back to zero gravity nirvana.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My Old Man Armchair cabinet is a sheet music cabinet handed down to me from my step-grandfather John Edward Martin, he was a great guy, and a singer. So he had a ton of sheet music, (I still have most of the old sheet music), which at one time adorned the little flat drawers in the cabinet.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Of course, in one's Old Man Armchair cabinet, you store important stuff right next to you so you can grab it anytime, and fulfill your life long destiny of championing the concept of motion economy </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I added these little divider trays a couple years ago to keep it neat</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cabinet side, oh yeah there are my old ratty Bose earbuds by the hanging back scratcher. But they're still workin' fine.</td></tr>
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Ric Seaberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08112232186296844385noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17146353.post-12544687820185444132016-03-22T10:02:00.002-07:002019-06-19T06:47:53.789-07:00My Friend Tim Ellis<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">My friend Tim Ellis slipped this mortal coil yesterday, having valiantly fought that damn cancer in the recent past. Tim was 60. Perhaps some of you heard of the magnificent benefit concert held in Tim’s honor last month, at Portland’s newly remodeled “Revolution Hall”. The venue was packed to the ceiling with friends and fellow musicians. The program was so great, starring Pink Martini, Art Alexakis of Everclear, Steve Hale, Aaron Meyer, Tom Grant, Patrick Lamb, Michele Van Kleef, many others, and even featured the weakening Timmy playing guitar. It was a wonderful tribute for Tim, attended by many of Timmy’s friends and acquaintances he had made over many years as Portland’s best and most sought after guitarist, oh, and all around great guy. He will be so missed by so many. I offer my condolences to Tim’s wife Susan, Tim’s family, and the many, many peeps and musicians Tim had grown close to, like Jim Walker, Jean Pierre Garau, and Aaron Meyer.</span></div>
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In 2001, after I had battled my own health issues, I decided to begin recording again, after many years of putting music on the back burner. I had sold my bakery, had an awesome relationship going with Marie, and all of a sudden, a few new songs started coming through. I had read an article in The Oregonian about Tim and his musical and recording prowess, so I called him and asked if he would consider playing guitar on my songs, which I had recorded at home, but which needed the attention of a quality pro guitar player. So we made a date for Tim to come over and record two songs, <a href="http://www.ricseaberg.com/useful_information_2002/s/forever_marie">“Forever Marie”</a>, which tells the story of offering my hand in marriage and professes my love for my amazing future wife, and another song, <a href="http://www.ricseaberg.com/useful_information_2002/s/like_him_that_way">"Like Him That Way"</a>, which I had written for my also amazing step-son Blaine Deatherage-Newsom, whom I had also fallen in love with.<br />
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So Tim came over, lugging a couple guitars and his amp, and his effects pedals, and we eventually made it upstairs to my little office studio. But first Tim met Blaine, which I could tell, made a huge impression on Tim. From that day forward, it went like this: when I had prepared songs for Tim to play on, I would call Timmy and make a recording date. Tim would arrive, pet the dogs, we would drag his equipment into the foyer, and then he would make a beeline for Blaine’s room, where they would spiritedly gab and laugh for the first half hour of Tim’s visit. This happened dozens of times. Blaine would anticipate Tim’s arrival like a kid in a candy store. They would talk mostly sports, in some depth, given their mutual love and knowledge of sports. The Dodgers. Tim loved the Dodgers. Well mostly. Tim was consistently respectful, warm and kind to Blaine. Major points.</div>
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Tim and I recorded over 200 songs together, mostly written by me. On that first day of recording, I saw in person for the first time the musical genius who would become my dear friend devise and play the most amazing guitar parts on the two songs I mentioned above. I am certain that Tim was moved by our family and especially by Blaine’s attitude and bravery. But I had no idea that this inspiration would translate into such magnificent guitar work. </div>
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Here’s how Timmy would work on my songs. First, I would give him a printed lead sheet of the songs chords. Then, with headphones on, we would listen to the song, which contained all the parts, bass, drums, vocals, and make marks on the lead sheet while it played, sometimes I would yell something at him, like “SOLO”, which he would acknowledge with a nod. Then he would tell me what he wanted to do. Like “this song needs an acoustic guitar, let’s track that first”. Or, “I brought the Telly, (Fender Telecaster), let’s try this”, as he tweaked the buttons and knobs of his amp. Maybe he would say, “Hey, play the intro please I wanna be sure I’ve got this echo timed right”. Then he would say, “ok let’s record”. And believe it or not folks, this cat could then play the song, the rhythm part, the lead part, other embellishment, first time through! On the two songs mentioned above, it was one and done for all the parts. On occasion, over the years, I would just shake my head and say, “Tim, you blow my mind, how in the living hell do you do that?”, to which he would always kindly respond, “Ric, your songs inspire me!”</div>
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So yeah, amazing musician, absolutely amazing. Entrepreneur. Chatterbox. And Tim and I had other things in common too. We both started businesses, and we both owned commercial property. We were both employers and landlords. We had plenty to talk about! I am so blessed to have even known Tim Ellis, let alone to have a catalog of over 200 songs that he played on. But the thing I am most blessed for, is that Tim was a very fine and loving friend to Blaine, for which I will be forever grateful. Tim was a great friend to me, to Marie, and especially to Blaine. The world needs more people like Tim Ellis. </div>
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Here are some of Tim's finest performances on my songs, a couple of which he speaks on:</div>
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<a href="http://www.ricseaberg.com/vehicular_tuneage_2015/s/we_talk_about_cars_2015">We Talk About Cars 2015 </a>(In the song's outro there is a short dialog between Tim and I)</div>
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<a href="http://www.ricseaberg.com/useful_information_2002/s/the_bill_walton_song">The Bill Walton Song 2002 </a>(Check out that insane guitar solo)</div>
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<a href="http://www.ricseaberg.com/consciousness_2012/s/300_million_chances">300 Million Chances 2014</a> (small talking part for Timmy in the intro)</div>
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<a href="http://www.ricseaberg.com/santa_monica_2004/s/you_went_crazy">You Went Crazy 2004 </a>(Tim surprised me at the end of the song by yelling "Crazy" into the pick up on his guitar)</div>
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Ric Seaberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08112232186296844385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17146353.post-9223269515825198192016-01-28T14:07:00.003-08:002016-03-03T12:24:59.609-08:00Ric Seaberg's Killer Croutons<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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My diet consists mainly of high protein, low carb foods, owing to the fact that my bod doesn't process sugars as it should, and likes to tip the glucose scale right to the edge of 7, making me a perennial pre-diabetic, well, let's just say diabetic. So no ice cream. And other stuff. But I don't have a bit of trouble finding good things to eat, and whether we are cooking at home or dining out, I can always find something to enjoy.<br />
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I eat a lot of salad, maybe a chicken Ceasar, or a sliced steak salad, with olive oil, apple cider vinegar, and maybe a packet of Splenda, cuz I like my dressing sweet sometimes. And luckily there are a plethora of salad bars, really good ones, located close to home, so I like to run over there and load up. I mean really excellent, clean salad bars, greens, artichokes, shrimp, steamed and grilled asparagus tips for godsake. But one thing I seldom find to be satisfying, and lord knows I need a little starch, are the croutons! Some of the salad bar places, and restaurants, make their own decent croutons, but mostly, they suck. I had a hankering for some croutons a couple days ago, so I bought these:<br />
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Ok so maybe sometimes ya buy something to save yourself some time. I just think store bought croutons are the worst. But luckily, I know how to make croutons, since I made them for many years in my bakeries to accompany soup. Ya buy the soup, you get croutons for free at the li'l soup buffet we had set up. Man did we go through the croutons. Croutons are simple. And you can use an aging loaf of bread! I prefer french bread, or sour dough, but any kind of bread will work. And I like to slice my own bread, as shown below, so I can make'm largish:<br />
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So cut up a whole loaf of bread into crouton pieces, and put them in a bowl. Then add a half a pound of melted butter as I have done below, and 1/4 teaspoon salt, 1/4 teaspoon pepper, and 1/2 teaspoon of granulated garlic. Or season it to taste. But don't add any stupid rosemary or some other harsh spice trying to be all gourmet nshit:<br />
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Dump on a sheet pan, I like to use some parchment paper cuz force of habit for bakers:<br />
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I sprinkled some dried parley on too for color but one could add dried parsley in the hand mixing stage.<br />
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Then I baked the croutons for about 1 hour and 20 minutes at 225 degrees, to completely dry them out, so they are nice and crunchy. Now these are killer salad croutons. Or you can eat'em by the handful as a snack. Once you start eating them, it's hard to stop! Also they freeze well so make a bunch! Enjoy!<br />
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Ric Seaberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08112232186296844385noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17146353.post-23878145795923694322015-12-05T06:47:00.002-08:002018-12-22T19:10:46.790-08:00Christmas 2015<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I have been thinking about my step-son Blaine, and Christmas, and how we will be holidaying this year without him. Kinda got a hole in my heart over here. Oh, how Blaine loved to get together with peeps and just socialize to the hilt. It has been said many times by those of us close to him, and by many others, that given his disabilities, Blaine was such a happy and smart and engaging and self confident fellow. A true inspiration to those who knew him and even those who would just meet him for the first time. Blaine brought out the best in people. If you know Blaine, first you are struck by what an amazing cat he is, and then you imagine what his life is really like, and then you remember to shut the fuck up the next time your latte is served tepid. Cuz gratitude rush.</div>
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That’s Blaine up there the year he and I raided every Goodwill in Portland for Primo Tacky Christmas Ornamentation, which we displayed proudly on the front porch of our house, much to Marie’s pleasure and marvelment. Somewhere on that table is a piece of toast someone had made into a tree ornament and then it got donated and resold to us at the Goodwill. Absolute best Christmas tree ornament ever conceived. When we do stuff like this Marie thinks we are so awesome!</div>
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The way Christmas works at our house is, my two children and their husbands and children and my sisters and their fams come to our house to visit Grandpa Ric and Grammy Marie on a weekend day before Christmas. We make merry, eat killer foods, exchange a few gifts and talk like crazy. Almost every year I am struck by the fact that the house is just abuzz with very boisterous (and loud!) conversation. And we watch football.</div>
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So the 2015 holiday party at our house is coming up soon, and well, there's an elephant in the room. And I write better than I speak, so here goes:</div>
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We all miss Blainey so much! My daughters Stacey and Amy, their hubs Tim and Gary, the grand kids, my sisters and their families, all of the Deatherage clan, Blaine’s dad’s family, and all of his many, many friends. Blaine was such a gregarious person, social to the max, loved to laugh, was always ready to follow me down some path of ridiculousness, like making Twinkies flambé. Or <a href="http://www.ricseaberg.com/bama_bombs/">“Bama Bombs”.</a> He just loved joining in on the fun. Together, we could be just a teeny bit mischievous.</div>
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But we don't miss Blaine like Marie misses Blaine. Imagine how much you miss him, and then multiply that by maybe 9000 cuz that’s my default mondo number. Blaine has been gone for almost a year, and we have passed his birthday, and we have passed other milestones, and here comes the holidays, and our family parties, while we move ahead one step at a time. And I have been watching Marie very closely every step of the way this past year.</div>
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Marie was a great advocate for Blaine with regard to all things medical, and she and Blaine walked right past the shadow of death a few times as Blaine was growing up. Like 14 surgeries. Sheesh. But Marie was way, way more than just a medical advocate for Blaine. Marie spent countless hours as Blaine was growing up lovin' on him and teaching him things and giving him knowledge and experiences through reading and travel, getting him online at a very early age, discussing the news in depth, playing games, the litany is endless. All designed to help Blaine function and succeed in the world. Yes, Blaine came equipped with a very good ability to think, and in some areas, like math, excelled. But other behaviors that most of us take for granted were more of a challenge. Helping Blaine, especially when he was quite young, perform in school classes and stay up with classmates was challenging. Teachers were sometimes alarmed at Blaine’s lack of focus and difficulty in performing and finishing projects. I believe it was his constant companion, Marie, during those early years especially, who informed Blaine’s attitude and developed in him a thirst for knowledge and a zest for life. </div>
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During the grade school years, though most teachers and professionals were concerned and kind regarding their treatment of Blaine, and fully intended on educating him to the best of their ability, sometimes getting Blaine’s attention and keeping it could be a challenge. To them, it was alarming, and daily notes sent home with Blaine would report his daily behaviors, his achievements, or lack of focus, owing to his many disabilities. So Marie devised a plan to help him perform better in school, as shown below on the cards. If Blaine had a good report for the day, there was a reward! And rewards designed to appeal to Blaine’s most powerful motivator, his social side! See? Brilliant. But this is just a teeny tiny surface scratch of the types of things Marie did to help him all along the way until he graduated from barely accessible Wilson High School here in Portland. While holding down a full time job, every day of her life was also filled with plans and projects and reading and rewards so that Blaine could achieve. And some kind of amazing and exceptionally deep bond was formed between Blainey and his Mom. I remain in awe when I consider the amount of input and love that this Mom displayed over all the years of Blaine’s life. And how much a mother can and will do for their children. And why my sweet wife still grieves. She still needs some more understanding and hand holding. For Christmas!</div>
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Ric Seaberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08112232186296844385noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17146353.post-74319045780068444002015-11-13T08:07:00.001-08:002015-11-13T15:00:11.766-08:00There Goes Rhymin' Pie Man<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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When my days as a rock star wannabe ended in 1971, I was squirmy. I had a couple years of college under my belt, and I probably could have gone back to finish, but to be honest, that didn't sound so good. Also, I already had one daughter, and another on the way, and we all needed me to have some kind of income. And I was pretty sure I could come up with something that would actually pay me a decent wage and maybe even get some health benefits. Eventually, after a stint as a "sanitation technician" at General Telephone in Kirkland, Washington, I hired on with Safeway as a baker's apprentice. For the next several years I worked at Safeway, and also other bakeries around Seattle, owing to the fact that my boss/teacher at Safeway, Karl Ekelmann, was a well known and awesome scratch German baker with connections, and he helped me get some other baking gigs on my days off, where I could learn other things we just didn't have time to explore at Safeway.<br />
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But the music in my brain never stopped. And hasn't to this day. I didn't really have time or the money to do any recording in those days, but eventually, I acquired a little recording set up, a 4 track Tascam cassette recorder, of surprising quality, a mic, mic stand, cheesy drum machine, and a little keyboard. And of course a couple guitars. With that minimal equipment at least I could record to tape a song I had written, which didn't happen too much during the bakery years, but I did have fun taking a song to some kind of completion when I could squeeze such a project in. And when I built my first bakery, in 1975-76, in Tualatin, Oregon, I had even less time for music!<br />
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Lately, as Marie and I have waxed on about on Facebook and on our blogs, we have been "purging" old unused items from our home, trashing some stuff, donating some stuff, and basically regrouping with regard to which of our saved items are really worth keeping at this time. We have a plan, owing to Marie's reading of The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing. First we got rid of clothes, that was easy, and kind of got us into the swing of things. Then we did paper. Man it is so nice to purge completely moot stuff from one's files, like financial records and cancelled checks from eons ago, and documents and records one absolutely no longer needs. Or wants. Suddenly my 4 drawer file cabinet isn't stuffed at all. In fact there are 2 completely empty drawers! And the 2 drawers that have file folders in them are current and neat!<br />
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So after purging the clothes and paper, and other stuff, according to the book, it is best to do memorabilia last, cuz that's the hardest. I mean, I have got an absolute ton of keepsakes, photos, letters from my Uncle Chick to my Mom during the war, (beautifully written), childhood stuff, omg it is endless. But you know I think I am ready to discard my report cards from 3rd grade, even though it's kind of fun to see on every report card from every year that Ricky tends to be very talkative and easily distracted. And I am also capable at this time to let go of much other once meaningful keepsakes, jewelry I was once fond of, maybe 24 watches, and those 2 complete sets of Desert Storm bubble gum cards. Which I bought because I just thought it was so completely bizarre. And because I wanted to send a complete set to my buddy Randy McCullough because I knew he would love them.<br />
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And then I found 5 full file folder boxes of cassette tapes in the back of my closet, all my old musical efforts, which included, as I have often mentioned, a good percentage of what I refer to as the 9000 infinity crappy songs I have written. Ok they gotta go. But maybe there is some gold in these boxes, better listen to the tapes. That part was kinda fun.<br />
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I am very glad that I have had music in my life forever as my personal form of artistic expression. When I hear the old songs, even if they are not particularly good, it's like listening to my life history in a way. Sometimes, I was just trying to write a good song, and didn't really have a huge connection to the lyrics, personally. But other songs are all about me, what I was going through in my love life at the time, ok maybe not exactly what was going on in my life, but I can certainly remember why I wrote a certain lyric, and honestly, I feel very lucky to have basically recorded a lot of my life in song.<br />
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So as I meandered my way through the boxes of tapes, I found a few that I wanted to save, try to restore. I mean just put some tapes in the back of your hot in the summer and freezing cold in the winter closet and see what kind of condition they are in 30 years later. But I still like a few of the songs, it makes me happy to hear them, so sharing. Here's a<a href="http://www.ricseaberg.com/there_goes_rhymin_pie_man/"> link to a page on my website</a> that contains the old songs I am talking about, and I have added a little "story" explanation on most of them, if you care to take a listen. Thank you for your time.<br />
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I start with a large saucepan, and fill it to about 2” from the top with water. Then I cut oranges and apples, (for me it is usually the aging ones I will probably deem inedible), and put them in the pot with the water. Then I add any combination of the following list of ingredients, bring to a boil, and then simmer. Maybe all day. Or maybe just because the kids or grandkids or guests are coming and I want the house to smell great and homey. If I have thrown a roast into the oven at the same time or am baking, the smells all mingle together to form homey happiness! Also, how this stuff looks on the stove is important too. Festive! Try it!</div>
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Somewhere back there a ways, Jon attended a meditation weekend, and right after that, I could hear in his songs, (he posts one every day!), that he had been impacted by the retreat, owing to some of the lyrics he had composed. One song, “I Don’t Try”, was especially great, I thought, and decided the second I heard it that I wanted to record it. So I did. On the day I recorded it, Marie was home, probably working away on her book, in her office, while I was doing my thing in my little home recording studio, laying down music tracks, arranging and singing the lyrics to “I Don’t Try”. After getting to a good stopping point in the process I decided to go downstairs in our home and make myself something to eat. When I got downstairs, Marie was sitting at the kitchen table, typing on her laptop, and we exchanged “hi honeys”. Then after a moment, she stopped typing and looked at me and said, “so..........you don’t drive.” At first, I was confused. Then I realized, that as she sat hearing my muffled warbling through my studio walls, wafting through the house and into her ears, what she thought she was hearing as I sang “I Don’t Try”, was “I Don’t Drive”! “No, honey”, I finally spoke, “It’s “I Don’t Try”. So we had a little minor chuckle. But then, just because she had heard me incorrectly, and also since I am nuttier that a fruitcake, I went back upstairs, and, still using many of the original words of the song, rewrote the song to include the words she had thought I was singing, that is, “I Don’t Drive”. So basically just because I wanted to respond in some silly way to the fact that she had heard me wrong, I changed the song just for her. Cuz Marie is my pluperfect spousal muse. </div>
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I completed the song, and played it for her as I do many times, the two of us sitting in my studio, with headphones on, and I could tell right away she liked what I had done. Then I contacted Jon, and sent him a copy of the song, for his approval. Then I immediately sent a copy to NPR’s CarTalk show, where I have been lucky enough to have some of my songs played. And wha’d’ya know, I just came up with another song about cars, Ok that’s weird. But the following weekend, (wow that happened fast), the awesome folks at CarTalk aired the song, which pleased us all very greatly. I had fun reminiscing with both Marie and Jon and our other lunch guest Noah today about the amazing “I Don’t Drive” musical moment. </div>
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I guess it was sometime in 2001 when Marie and Blaine called me out onto our front porch to ask me if I had heard <a href="http://www.cartalk.com/">CarTalk</a> on NPR that day. Then Marie repeated to me a caller's story from the show, giggling all the way. I could tell you the whole story, but the original letter this guy sent is on the CarTalk website, and titled <a href="http://www.cartalk.com/content/love-and-rust-spots">"Love and Rust Spots", click here.</a> I cracked up as she spoke, and then returned to some mundane putzing I'd been doing in the basement. I loved the story Marie had told, and as I was dwelling on it over my table saw, I heard a little melody and the words, "didn't say "I love you" right!". And then suddenly I was holed up in my office, strummin' the purple Ovation, and shortly thereafter found Marie and Blaine, still sunning themselves on our big old Portland front porch, and sang them the original version of my song, "Didn't Say "I Love You" Right", which of course basically tells the story Marie had heard on CarTalk. I could tell the song delighted her, and then I got all happy and filled with a sense of accomplishment. And then I had a beer and sucked in a long breath of air with my nose all tweaky exactly like my dad used to do when he was pontificatin' like a boss. Within a week or so I laid down a few backing tracks in my little home studio and then Bobby Hines came over and played the lead guitar part. So I sent the finished song to CarTalk, and they were kind enough to play the thing a few weeks later, which I admit was very satisfying to me and Marie and Blainey. I remember I was driving home from fishing on the Clackamas River and listening to the CarTalk show on my van radio and talking to Marie on one'athose teeny flip phones when they played it, and we were all like WOOHOO!<br />
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So long story short, at some point the producers of CarTalk asked to use the song on a compilation cd, of course I said yes. You can still get a copy of the cd at <a href="http://www.cartalk.com/">cartalk.com</a> and other places.<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Car-Talk-Americas-Disrespectful-Songs/dp/1565116615/ref=pd_bxgy_14_img_y"> Here's the Amazon link.</a> But this was just the tip of the iceberg for ol' Ricky and the CarTalk connection. The next thing I know I am submitting a song I'd written, all the time with CarTalk in mind, titled, "We Talk About Cars", which is a song that has cars in it but is more of a Mars/Venus thing and highlights how we men tend to sometimes get locked into conversation about cars. As opposed to how women might gather, say, in a book group, and solve every problem known to man over tea and knishes. And of course I was thrilled to get air play on the show for this song too, and then was asked to allow them to use the song for yet another compilation cd, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Car-Talk-Born-Disrespectful-Songs/dp/1565118812/ref=pd_sim_14_1?ie=UTF8&refRID=0GEMZ9P8R3BB59BG75X4">this one!</a> Over time, this CD has made it around to radio stations and podcasts all over the world, and I am happy to say that "We Talk About Cars" has been my most successful song, because I can see on reports from SoundExchange and ASCAP where it is getting played. And then I use that residual check to keep my Starbucks card in the black. Again, WOOHOO!<br />
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To date the producers of CarTalk have played 8 of my songs about cars. It is kind of surprising to me that I have actually been driven to write as many songs as I have that include cars in some way. Or my van. Or by extension, our <a href="http://ricseaberg.blogspot.com/2005/06/airstream-chronicleshow-we-got-our.html">1964 Airstream Land Yacht</a>. I mean I didn't really grow up workin' on cars in my driveway like some guys. But I did start doing some of my own car maintenance when I was a young dad, lyin' on my back under a 58 VeeWee wirin' up those flappy things so the car heater would work in winter, or putting a new radiator in my old Jetta. And other stuff.<br />
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So here I sit with a large handful of Vehicular Tuneage, with one song in particular that I am certain has kissed the ears of many thousands of car enthusiasts, and others, so I say to myself, I says "Self, why not crank out a compilation of your own, to include these many vehicle related songs you've penned. You could do that, Self". So I made a list first. And I found 17 songs that feature a vehicle. Well a couple others too, but they're shitty songs. So I selected the good ones, and I put them on the cd, above. I think it might offer up a grin or two. At Ric Seaberg Central, we thank you so very much for reading this entire post and for being interested in my tuneage. Especially, my Vehicular Tuneage.<br />
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Vehicular Tuneage on iTunes: <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/vehicular-tuneage/id1033650280">https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/vehicular-tuneage/id1033650280</a><br />
Vehicular Tuneage on CDBaby: <a href="https://www.cdbaby.com/cd/ricseaberg10">https://www.cdbaby.com/cd/ricseaberg10</a><br />
Vehicular Tuneage on YouTube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjzhwD038XyrfkRen6OVWvSIEtn88yHvY">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjzhwD038XyrfkRen6OVWvSIEtn88yHvY</a><br />
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Ric Seaberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08112232186296844385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17146353.post-25035971521401036132015-07-26T13:09:00.000-07:002016-04-26T20:39:42.307-07:00It's All About the Song<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">My history of songwriting dates back to when I was oh, maybe 2 years old, no kidding, <a href="http://www.ricseaberg.com/a_thousand_songs_2009/s/the_lone_ranger_song">as illustrated here in a 60 something year old tape (well, audio wire),</a> of me performing an original, which I dubbed "The Lone Ranger Song" in later years. That's my Mom, Lorraine, on the recording, with her stellar intro. Mom was around 30 at the time. I am so very blessed to have this audio. Somehow it makes me feel more whole. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">In my teens and twenties I performed as lead singer in a rock band, "The Morning Reign”, and wrote some of the band's songs. Maybe my bandmates would beg to differ, (I hope), but the songs I was writing in those days were all pretty much pure shit. To put it in the vernacular, as it were.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">So I have been a student of songwriting for over 50 years, read all the books, wrote 9000 infinity songs, (that's just the ones that suck), and have alway listened with my ear to the speakers to better understand chord changes, song structure, and especially lyrics. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">I can tell the first time I hear a song if it's a great song. And I can tell the first time I hear a song if it sucks. For a song to be good, there has to be a spark of inspiration that drives the song. It's easy to tell when a songwriter was actually moved to write a song, or if he or she just sat down and forced a song out. Those songs seeded by inspiration, songs from the heart, those are the songs that really git'cha!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">But by paying attention to songs and writing songs all my life, because that's what I love and what I am drawn to, I humbly admit that I have never become much of a musician. Oh, I could probably hold my own as a rhythm guitar player in a band if I concentrated on it. Or accompany myself on acoustic guitar if I was ever interested in performing live. That is not going to happen. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">I have fortunately known a ton of musicians, and lots of really great players over my life. I guess in some ways, we are kindred spirits, we love music, we are doing more than just being listeners. But I must say that there is kind of a divide between many good musicians and some of us who mainly write songs. Like the person who spends all of his or her time crafting the melody and the lyrics is less worthy. I get that it takes a ton of time and commitment to become proficient on an instrument, understand and be able to properly use amplification, organize the band, go out and get gigs, wow, tons of work. I did that once. And when I was done with that, I went forward until this day writing songs, doing some recording. But my guitar chops could I think be fairly described as lower than average! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">I heard a tune today online (which was not a hit) by a 70’s band, omg. Please forgive me for coming right out and saying, that song was really bad. Kind of like the songs I was writing in my twenties!! This was a professional recording of an original song, and well played by capable young musicians! But the song, ugh, lyrically sophomoric, uninspired, just a bun’cha words strung together to make it sound kinda like a song. I just sat there and as I have many times before in my life just shook my head and uttered the words, "It's all about the song!" Because without the song, you do not have shit. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">And that's when I began to think (yet again) about the rub between players and non performing songwriters. Those of us who aren't great on an instrument are sometimes referred to with disdain in the music industry as “hummers”. What there needs to be is cooperation and mutual respect between players and songwriters of all kinds. Performers need the best songs, no matter where they come from. That song I heard this morning, I'm pretty sure that thing should have never been recorded. But probably someone in the band wrote it, so that's what you do. So many songs, (and plenty I've written!) should surely never see the light of day. And players and songwriters should work together to make the best music happen! Cuz before you can play the song ya gotta find a great song!! It's all about the song!!! And when I’m walkin’ my little royalty checks up to the credit union, even though I suck on the guitar, I am still gonna be feelin’ pretty good about makin’ music, my way. Hummin'.</span></div>
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<span class="" style="letter-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">Website: <a class="" href="http://www.ricseaberg.com/" style="color: #993322; text-decoration: none;">http://www.ricseaberg.com</a> (Many more songs featuring Tim Ellis on guitars at "Music" in menu)</span><br />
Facebook: <a class="" href="https://www.facebook.com/ric.seaberg.5" style="color: #993322; text-decoration: none;">https://www.facebook.com/ric.seaberg.5</a><br />
Blog: <a class="" href="http://www.ricseaberg.blogspot.com/" style="color: #993322; text-decoration: none;">http://www.ricseaberg.blogspot.com</a><br />
<span class="" style="letter-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">CDBaby: <a class="" href="http://www.cdbaby.com/m/artist/RicSeaberg" style="color: #993322; text-decoration: none;">http://www.cdbaby.com/m/artist/RicSeaberg</a></span><br />
iTunes: <a class="" href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/ric-seaberg/id7749841" style="color: #993322; text-decoration: none;">https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/ric-seaberg/id7749841</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">My pluperfect spousal unit Marie is a professional writer. Like a real writer. When we met in 1997 and began our courtship, she had been working for a foundation, summarizing grant proposals for the trustees to study before they would offer financial consideration to one of Oregon’s many illustrious non profits. Before that she was writing articles and editing several publications including “The Oregon Clarion”, which was the “go to” periodical for Oregon’s disabled community. And when she was only 17, she wrote an article for the Cottage Grove Sentinel, where she was actually working part time, about famous Oregon heroine Opal Whitely, which won “Best Feature Story of The Year” as awarded by The Oregon Newspaper Publisher’s Association. </span></div>
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When we were dating, Marie shared with me a few chapters of a book she had begun to write about her son Blaine and her experiences with him in the world of the disabled. It rather blew my mind. Heartfelt, educational, and above all, so beautifully written. Having been drawn to writing myself over my lifetime, and holding writers up as heroes and heroines, my immediate respect for Marie and her command of language (and her babeness) soon morphed into a full blown love affair.</div>
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Cut to 2013, we are hanging out in our basement, attempting to thin the hoard, when Marie spies two large boxes full of papers and begins thumbing through the contents. “Oh my God”, she suddenly spoke, “this is all the work I did when I was teaching, before Blaine was born, notes I took, interviews, and study I did to write a book about Portland. I did so much work! I have to transfer these handwritten documents onto the computer!” So for about the next month, when she would get home from work at night, and on the weekends, our kitchen table was covered with papers, and those two boxes were on the kitchen floor. And basically the world stopped turning until she was done. And then she announced to me that I could return the much lighter boxes to the basement. </div>
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I am certain that I questioned Marie about what her intention was to do with all that information that she had just transferred to her computer, and I am also sure that she didn’t really know. But the train had left the station. I could tell she was mulling over the whole situation, having reread all the notes she had taken years earlier during her time teaching the geography of Portland, and other related subjects. </div>
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But Marie is not just a writer. Marie thinks like an artist, and has artistic talent. She can also draw. Design a garden or a kitchen. She also possesses color expertise. And she can sew. So when she decided to take up quilting with a vengeance, some years ago, like her grandmother and her mother, I was not surprised. And when there were 30 quilts, she asked me to build her a rack on a wall of our home, to store them. My friend Tim Gillespie calls it “Marie’s Quilt Garden”</div>
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So she says t'me she says, "I am going to ask Joyce if she would like to join me in the book project. (Marie’s best friend since their days at The University of Chicago). Since we are both quilters, and Joyce is a photographer, I think we could do a book together that would be interesting and unique. We could weave our quilting and the fabric of Portland together. Something like that. And go into some depth about what makes Portland Portland."</div>
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Today I sit here at 6am in our quiet home with my snoozing dog Drifty on my lap, cruisin' the TV schedule for today's sports, and waiting for my exhausted wife to come tip toeing down the stairs for her requisite cup of strong coffee. She worked late into the night on her book again, as she has been doing for most of the past year. But I am pretty sure that today is the day she will be delivering the thumb drive containing the master copy of her book to Kinkos/Fedex to make the first loose leafed copy, with all the high-res photos placed, the whole deal. So we can see what the finished product will pretty much look like. And so she can make any necessary changes.</div>
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During this book writing process, I have been so fortunate to read the text it as it was being written. What a blast! It's fabulous! I've learned so much! It's so well written, the photography is great, the featured Portland peeps and places are all so interesting and beautifully described by an accomplished writer, who, along with providing us with an amazing view of our grand city, can be damn funny! I hope you get your hands on a copy of "Pieces of Portland", by Marie Deatherage and Joyce Brekke. Also visit Marie’s personal blog at <a href="https://omaried.wordpress.com/"><span style="color: #021eaa;">https://omaried.wordpress.com</span></a>. Comments welcome!</div>
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And lastly, please allow me to express my pride in both Marie and Joyce for what they have accomplished. I cannot even begin to describe my joy at having been the proverbial fly on the wall over these past months, watching these two amazing women start and then finish this project. That I am closely associated with them both, and married to one of them for godsake, is like some kind of miracle. Many, many thanks to both of you for allowing me to be a part of this process. And yay, now I get my wife back!!!</div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration: underline;">Website: <a href="http://www.ricseaberg.com/">http://www.ricseaberg.com</a></span></div>
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Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ric.seaberg.5"><span style="color: #021eaa;">https://www.facebook.com/ric.seaberg.5</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration: underline;">CDBaby: <a href="http://www.cdbaby.com/m/artist/RicSeaberg">http://www.cdbaby.com/m/artist/RicSeaberg</a></span></div>
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iTunes: <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/ric-seaberg/id7749841"><span style="color: #021eaa;">https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/ric-seaberg/id7749841</span></a></div>
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Soundcloud:<a href="https://soundcloud.com/ric-seaberg"><span style="color: #021eaa;"> https://soundcloud.com/ric-seaberg</span></a></h3>
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Ric Seaberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08112232186296844385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17146353.post-70315440714012386182014-06-08T13:07:00.003-07:002015-05-24T14:47:29.783-07:00BAKERYLANDIA!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I woke up this morning with a burning desire to write a piece about the state of bakeries in my beloved city, Portland, Oregon. Or as some call it, owing to the popular tv show, Portlandia. Having owned and managed two bakeries over twenty years in this here burg, I am probably qualified to do so. Plus I invented The Cream Cheese Flip, often copied but seldomly made with the same original quality once offered at my stores. C’mon you guys, you have to make the filling from scratch!<br />
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I bought a box of doughnuts yesterday at the newly opened Blue Star Doughnuts on Hawthorne, which is smack in the middle of my neighborhood, and just looking at those beautiful rings got me going about baked and fried goods, how the retail bakery business here (and probably all over) has taken a turn for the better. You are gonna pay about 3 bucks a pop for one of the awesome and gorgeous doughnuts at Blue Star. <br />
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Please allow me to return you for a moment to the genesis of my baking career, Seattle, 1972. I served my apprenticeship while working full-time at a Safeway bakery, where my German and Finnish trained bosses, Karl and Roger, gave me all the skills I needed to do my job, and were also kind enough to pass along much other bakery knowledge because, wow, they were great guys! Karl, (his given name was Klaus), taught me the complexity of dough, and how to deal with friction and temperature, proofing, all that stuff. Roger was a great baker too, but Roger’s great contribution to my career was that he taught me how to work. “When you cut the tops of the strawberries, Ric, you never cross your arms. You set yourself up so it’s a smooth flow from right to left, since you are a right hander, and you get the job done faster, and then I like you better”. <br />
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Working at a Safeway Bakery just outside Seattle in 1972-75 was working in an actual, all scratch bakery. We mixed our danish dough and other doughs and batters from scratch, cake mixes were just starting to come in, but for the most part, we started with flour, sugar, eggs, and went from there. It was awesome. I learned so much, and I developed a love for baking, and for loading up several display cases with “good things to eat”, that I had made with my own two hands. So probably no surprise that in 1975, my wife Donna and I sold our small starter house in Seattle and moved back to Portland, where we had grown up, with our two kids, Stacey and Amy, and built and opened “Richard’s Bakery” in Tualatin, Oregon, near Portland. <br />
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The people came! And I plied my trade in Tualatin for ten years, and then moved the bakery to NE Portland, and changed the name to Favourites. Lots of good folks to thank for helping me make that move. You know who you are. The people came again!!<br />
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So what you have in Portland in 1975 is a handful of “scratch” privately owned bakeries, and the grocery store bakeries, who were still holding their own as “scratch bakeries”, hiring actual bakers, making quality products, pastries, cakes and doughnuts, right on premises. <br />
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My competition, alongside a few other area retail bakeries, was the grocery store bakery, like Safeway, and Albertsons, and a few independent grocery store bakeries. But during this time, in the late 70s and especially the 80s, the grocery store bakeries were moving toward less baking on the premises and more “bake off” products, where unbaked frozen goods would arrive at the store, and bakers (or technicians), would unpack the frozen danish, the doughnuts, cake layers, etc, and then finish the product, add icing, and place the product for sale. This apparently suited the needs of the grocery store bakery, because it provided a standard product throughout the store chain, it lessened production and labor cost, and therefore enabled the store to keep the price as low as possible. “Belly Buster Special! Applesauce Cake Doughnuts, 9 for 99 cents!”<br />
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There is wicked price competition in the food business folks, always, and peeps shop for price in most cases, so when you are making a doughnut, and the price of flour rises, and you realize you need to raise your maple bar price by a nickel, you consider it and think about it for days before you do it, because you know you are gonna hear about it. And that you might lose some sales because of it. Several times during my career, I caught sight of a person looking disgustedly at the prices of my products, and even saw and heard a few folks stomp out of the store, saying things like, “I’ll be damned if I am gonna pay 75 cents for a doughnut!! I’ll just go to Safeway! <br />
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“Well, fuck you then!”, one may have heard reverberating in the canyons of my mind, “go get your damn mixed and cut in Duluth and iced in Portland maple bar. Cuz I got up at 2am and came down here and started mixing dough, slamming coffee and hollering at employees to get to work just so you could gripe about my prices”.<br />
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And speaking of coffee, I was none too pleased when Starbucks set up a new unit within earshot of my bakery’s front door, on NE Fremont St. in Portland, around 1994. The coffee culture was exploding, and Starbucks were being built everywhere, though of course it is a much larger international business today. We had always sold coffee in my bakeries, but in 1993 I had leased the small space next to my bakery to an independent coffee retailer, “Java Man Coffee”. It was a pretty sweet situation. We had quality coffee drinks right next to the bakery, and we didn’t have to provide coffee! I stood with my hands on my hips when they were building that Starbucks a block away, and shouted, “Hey you guys, I thought of it first”, but my admonitions fell on deaf ears. <br />
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So, having imbibed approximately 900,000 coffee drinks in my life, (I prefer the pedestrian 16 oz. Americano, room), I have found myself, now, and back then, in many a Starbucks lobby, hanging by the roombar, waiting for the barista to call my name, and though my coffee drinking has slowed down some over the years, let's just say, I am an experienced Starbucks guy. <br />
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The Coffee Culture!!! It’s more popular than Jesus! It’s everywhere!! Starbucks started in Seattle in 1971. There were a couple other folks doing quality coffee drinks back then, but when Starbs started growing and embraced a hip coffee shop feel, BAMM. You know, maybe part of it was timing, but I am going to give Howard Schultz and his crew most of the credit for growing the business into the popular mammoth it is today. And over the years, many, many very good and distinctive coffee businesses have succeeded, Peets, Dutch Bros., Stumptown (started in Portland, now in NY and LA!), Coffee People, on and on, The Coffee Culture!! <br />
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I guess it was around 2000 when I started to realize that the coffee culture had basically changed the way people operate. They buy and drink one hell of a lot of coffee. And guess what they also buy, as they stand and chat with the effervescent sales person in their fave java crib? Pastry!!! Tons, and tons, and tons of pastry. Ok first comes the coffee. Ya gotta have that. But buying the coffee puts you right in front of that pastry case, and damn that cranberry orange scone I had last week was the bomb and oh lordy lookit that cinnamon roll and guess what, with your wifes’s Venti Non Fat Latte, your Americano and a couple sweet things, there went twelve bucks, AND YOU DON’T CARE, because that is your life and you’re driving to Cottage Grove for the day and you’re all ripped on caffeine and sugar and you like it that way!<br />
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So here is my theory. The Coffee Culture has paved the way for the reintroduction of retail bakeries, and by God, here in Portland, we are very well stocked with new, great bakeries. Little T’s American Bakery, La Provence, St. Honore, Crema, Nuvrei, The Pearl Bakery, Ken’s Artisan Bakery, Back to Eden Bakery, Lovejoy Bakery, Grand Central Bakery, Dot Donuts, Jim and Patty's Coffee and Bakery, I could go on. And all of these bakeries offer a great coffee drinks, and some of them are full restaurants, besides the killer baked goods they produce. I go and buy a big ol’ box of fourteen amazingly tasty and beautiful pastries for thirty five bucks for the fam. I’m thinkin’, it's a bargain!! And the four customers behind me, they load up too! And no one complains about the prices!!! Well maybe a few, but they can still get their maple bar, mixed and cut in Duluth, at Safeway. <br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">I miss the bakery. The products, the smells, the people. But I don't miss that rising at 2 or 3am, after maybe 5 hours of sleep, and then slamming strong coffee, and telling my staff of 10 or so what to do for the next 8 hours. And other stuff. When I sold my store, in 1995, after 20 years of being in business, as president of Richard's Bakery Inc., and chief sheet pan washer, my friends and customers would say to me, "Haha Ric, you'll never be able to stay out of bakery business", to which I would politely smile, but inside, I was saying, "Haha, pretty damn sure I can". </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">But I do really miss making that stuff, and I find myself baking at home, well, probably more than most folks. One product that was unique to my store in Portland, in those days, was a popular product we called "meat rolls", and with my sweetest and most important daughters, Stacey and Amy, requesting me to make some for this holiday season, I bought some ingredients, and cranked up the kitchen for a little practice session. This is a good looking and tasty hors doeuvre I'm certain your fam will love:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">2 lbs lean ground beef</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Healthy splash Tabasco </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Healthy splash Worchestershire sauce</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Mix all above ingredients (meat mixture) in one stage. It works best to add your wet ingredients to the mixing bowl first, then bread crumbs, then other stuff. Mix thoroughly but not long. Consistency should be such that you can press meat mixture out of a pastry bag with a 1" hole cut in the bag. If you love spicy food, add more Tabasco! But I prefer to provide my guests with a variety of dipping sauces, including some really spicy ones</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Flour your work area ( I use a wood "tableboard" by Spinella) and add your piece of puff pastry</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Pin your puff out such that it is about 1/16 of an inch thick. If you buy Pepperidge Farm Puff, the way it's folded will inform you how to use the 3 sections for your meat roll mixture. This next picture shows the pastry fully pinned and ready for the meat mixture.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Brush off all the flour, cut the dough as shown with a knife (not serrated) or a pastry wheel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Cut the end of a cloth pastry bag to leave an approximate 1" diameter hole. Add some of your meat mixture to the pastry bag, and pipe it onto the pastry as shown.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Whip a couple of eggs in a little bowl with a hand whip or fork, and brush it onto the pastry below the meat as shown. Then roll up the dough as shown below, and press the rolls lightly to seal the pastry to the egg wash.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Brush off any excess flour. Then cut the rolls in about 1" pieces with a French knife or pastry wheel, egg wash them well as they sit right up against each other, and add dried parsley for color. Then pick them up and put them on your baking pan. Preheat your oven to 400 degrees and bake for approx 19 minutes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Note: This is my recipe, and it works great for me. But maybe you'd like to try something different, like adding a portion of pork sausage or another change to the recipe. Go for it! Have a great party!!!</span></div>
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iTunes: <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/ric-seaberg/id7749841" style="color: #993322; text-decoration: none;">https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/ric-seaberg/id7749841</a></div>
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Soundcloud:<a href="https://soundcloud.com/ric-seaberg" style="color: #993322; text-decoration: none;"> https://soundcloud.com/ric-seaberg</a></div>
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Ric Seaberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08112232186296844385noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17146353.post-84103476970039446812013-03-09T15:58:00.000-08:002015-05-24T14:50:03.538-07:00The Photic Sneeze Response<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I was very young when I first discovered that I have the photic sneeze response, which is present in 18-35 percent of the population, according to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photic_sneeze_reflex">Wikipedia</a>. Basically, when a person who has the photic sneeze response looks at the sun or a bright light, it'll sometimes make that person sneeze. It'll come on suddenly, like when you're sitting in the sun, next to your wife, who is relaxing and calmly enjoying a glass of wine as she reads a little Jose Saramago, and all of a sudden, KERBLOOEY!, you go off courtesy of the photic sneeze response. And KERBLOOEY! again. And yet another KERBLOOEY!. Or maybe you'll be driving along in the car and all of a sudden you turn your head slightly to the left where the sun is and you'll get a little tickling in your nose and then, KERBLOOEY! All this while your wife again sits calmly staring forward, looking at the scenery, as if three or four wild sneezes in a row are not bothering her. Because she is the pluperfect spousal unit and queen of your existence.<br />
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Or maybe she's super nice and all, but somewhere deep down my pluperfect spouse harbors complete and utter resentment and anger related to those times when the photic sneeze response rears its ugly head. I have actually suspected this all along even though she puts on a good face about it. Because last week while working in our yard on a lovely, warm pre-spring day, in overcast weather, the sun suddenly peaked through as I dug yet another behemoth hole for planting some new plant that she had purchased at the Chinese garden or some off-the-wall plant sale. And then.... suddenly.... I feel the tickle. (Insert Jaws music here) I turn my head slightly and raise it to the sky because the photic sneeze reponse is calling me to do so. And then as quick as lightning, KERBLOOEY! I look at Marie. She has the look of whatever on her face. I try to dig more. And then without warning, as I look up slightly again, KERBLOOEY! I glance at Marie again and her eyes are closed but her face looks calm. I lift my spade and try to continue my excavating. And then once again, without warning, as I raise my head to the warmth of the sun, KERBLOOEY!<br />
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At that moment, I fear my perfect spouse's true feelings came forth. Because after that third sneeze she gave me a look, a staring look that said, "that is the most irritating thing I have ever experienced since the day I was born".</div>
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And then she uttered these words. Words that I will never ever forget, as she stood holding a potted plant in her pink garden gloves, and sporting a little brown smudge of mud on her left cheek. (Stop Jaws music). "Ric" she spoke, "Quit lookin' at the goddam sun".<br />
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So I wrote a song about it. It's called the Photic Sneeze Response. And it's a rockin' little ditty. Featuring my buddy Tim Ellis on guitars, as always. If you're a photic sneezer, this one's especially for you!<br />
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<a href="http://www.ricseaberg.com/a_certain_level_of_luckiness_2015/s/the_photic_sneeze_response">To hear "The Photic Sneeze Response" click here</a><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">Website: <a href="http://www.ricseaberg.com/" style="color: #993322; text-decoration: none;">http://www.ricseaberg.com</a></span><br />Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ric.seaberg.5" style="color: #993322; text-decoration: none;">https://www.facebook.com/ric.seaberg.5</a></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">CDBaby: <a href="http://www.cdbaby.com/m/artist/RicSeaberg" style="color: #993322; text-decoration: none;">http://www.cdbaby.com/m/artist/RicSeaberg</a></span></div>
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iTunes: <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/ric-seaberg/id7749841" style="color: #993322; text-decoration: none;">https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/ric-seaberg/id7749841</a></div>
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Soundcloud:<a href="https://soundcloud.com/ric-seaberg" style="color: #993322; text-decoration: none;"> https://soundcloud.com/ric-seaberg</a></div>
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Ric Seaberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08112232186296844385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17146353.post-63795637959262963442013-02-22T11:31:00.000-08:002015-05-30T15:13:02.788-07:00God Bless The Angry<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Anger. What an interesting emotion. And I think, because of its power, a sometimes overused emotion. Flying off the handle, if you will, can sometimes get you what you want. Like say, when you're a kid, and you lose your baseball mitt, and you rail on to your folks about how all the other kids have mitts, and you need one RIGHT NOW for the game today, and you're 12 but you still hit the drywall so hard you punch a hole in the kitchen, by the Osterizer, your Mom might just give in and take you to Caplan's and buy you a mitt. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; text-align: -webkit-auto;">And maybe, over time, some folks begin to rely on anger to drive home their talking points, brow exceedingly furled, voice raised above all others, that kind if thing. It's pretty easy to to tell when someone is doing that. It's kind of embarrassing. I mean for an adult to act like that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; text-align: -webkit-auto;">But I'm not saying anger isn't a necessary emotion. Sometimes a person has to feel anger rise up in them to make necessary changes in their life, like say, to help a person fire a tyrannical employee, or get out of an abusive relationship. And of course, some folks may be caught in a loop of anger, if they have been abused in their lives, especially as children. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; text-align: -webkit-auto;">The way I see it though, is that any of those folks, young, older, abused or not, deserve compassion. Because for me anyway, it would fairly suck to be angry all the time, like a few peeps I've known. Like, when an angry person wakes up to a beautiful sunrise, they're already mad about something. And the motherfucking coffee is too fucking strong. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; text-align: -webkit-auto;">I'm just throwing out a few thoughts here. Because I'm certainly not qualified to lead a discussion about the ever so complex emotion of anger. And how people use anger. And the effects of anger. And who was deeply and inconveniently angry in history, like say Hitler or Mussolini. I guess for the most part my little small brained point is that anger is often misused, there's too much anger in the world, and people need to relate to each other more kindly, generously, and lovingly. And so, I'm just going to go ahead and say, God bless the angry. They probably suffer more than most. And those around them do too. The world is the most amazing and beautiful place. And we are so lucky to be alive on the earth. So, maybe chill a little bit. Have a yogurt.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; text-align: -webkit-auto;">So I wrote and recorded a song about it, <a href="http://www.ricseaberg.com/a_certain_level_of_luckiness_2015/s/god_bless_the_angry">God Bless The Angry, click here.</a> That's Tim Ellis, as usual, cranking out those guitar parts. Fucker's so good, it pisses me off.</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">Website: <a href="http://www.ricseaberg.com/" style="color: #993322; text-decoration: none;">http://www.ricseaberg.com</a></span><br />
Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ric.seaberg.5" style="color: #993322; text-decoration: none;">https://www.facebook.com/ric.seaberg.5</a></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">CDBaby: <a href="http://www.cdbaby.com/m/artist/RicSeaberg" style="color: #993322; text-decoration: none;">http://www.cdbaby.com/m/artist/RicSeaberg</a></span></div>
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iTunes: <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/ric-seaberg/id7749841" style="color: #993322; text-decoration: none;">https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/ric-seaberg/id7749841</a></div>
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Soundcloud:<a href="https://soundcloud.com/ric-seaberg" style="color: #993322; text-decoration: none;"> https://soundcloud.com/ric-seaberg</a></div>
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Ric Seaberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08112232186296844385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17146353.post-11328067848287359302013-02-05T20:45:00.002-08:002020-02-06T07:13:29.090-08:00A Certain Level of Luckiness<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">This is how it started. We had some serious health stuff go down in the fam in January, 2013, which resulted in my son Blaine spending a week in the hospital. Marie also came down with an as yet undiagnosed Shoulder Thang, and we await further analysis on that one, an MRI, other stuff. Sheesh. We look forward to better health!</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">When Blaine was in the hospital, and before the Shoulder Thang, Marie kept friends and family appraised of Blaine’s progress in the hospital via Facebook. At some point, in frustration, dealing with hospital staff and Blaine's illness, she posted the following, and received a few replies:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">“That feeling when you suddenly realize it has required a certain level of madness to survive your own existence. Yeah, that's the one.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px; text-decoration: underline;"><b><a href="http://www.facebook.com/marie.deatherage">Marie Deatherage</a>:</b></span><span style="color: #323333; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> Lucky you </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">About a second after I typed, “A certain level of luckiness” and </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">rolled it </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Okay so in the days prior to our january health issues, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">it is the first studio quality USB microphone that one can use to</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">record, get this, directly to an iPhone!! When I saw this, for me, it</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Worry about how to pay for it later. I recently received it, and it is</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">awesome. And I’m thinking, OMG I am going to record a </span><span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">song </span><span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">directly onto the iPhone!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Okay back to the song. So I write the song titled “A Certain Level</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">So I buy the Garageband app for iPhone, watch every YouTube</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I started by opening Garageband for iPhone, and then doing the</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">haha, me! Then I sang what we call a scratch vocal, a first vocal</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">Ok so here’s what you will spend to get the quality of sound you will hear on my project. IPhone, $399. (Which I’ve heard is good for other stuff) Apoggee “MIC”, $289. Garageband for iPhone, $4.99. A good pair of headphones or earbuds, $150. Total, around $950. For making a decent demo with exceptional fidelity, of an original song, at home, (or anywhere, it’s tiny!) by yourself, just amazing. And especially amazing for those of us who have dragged ourselves through many years of inadequate and expensive recording technology. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">I used all 8 tracks available in garageband for iPhone to record this tune, plus I merged the two accoustic guitar parts so I could get one more track to do the ad libs in the outro, (which of course I relentlessly rehearsed). In sum, I’m pretty sure it took me about 20 hours. I hope you enjoy <a href="https://ricseaberg.com/track/1960886/a-certain-level-of-luckiness-original-version">“A Certain Level of Luckiness”!</a></span><br />
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<a href="https://ricseaberg.com/track/1960926/a-certain-level-of-luckiness"><span style="font-family: inherit;">To hear the studio version of "A Certain Level of Luckiness" which appears on the 2015 CD of the same name click here</span></a><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">That’s Eddie James up there, plying his trade as lead singer of Eddie James and The Pacific Ocean, when The Morning Reign visited the famous venue “Gazzarris”, on Sunset Strip in 1969. A four piece band, Eddie and company sounded great as they slammed out R&B flavored tunes like “I Wanna Testify” and their own tune, “Shrink”. Somewhere in his 20’s, Eddie was definitely the lead singer I aspired to become, beltin’ out rock numbers like a real pro, all gutsy, and rockin’ those cool bell bottoms. We Reign guys sat enthralled, throwin’ back whiskey and workin’ on a groovy thing. The unwed Reign members, lore has recorded, smoothly joined tables of pretty hippie chicks and commenced to tell lies. Something.</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">So Eddie James has a so-so musical career and then switches gears and becomes Edward James Olmos, man. You grow up in LA, you work like a dog, stuff like that happens. Good for you Ed. We were rootin’ for ya!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Next day, we leave Cac’s house in South Pasadena and drive to Capitol records, where we meet our producers, Mark Wildey and Joey Paige, load in our equipment, and record a few tunes. The song from the lost tapes I have included here is a song Mark and Joe asked us to record, “Belinda”. I remember when I first heard the demo, and thought for sure I was listening to John Sebastian of The Lovin’ Spoonful, and I may have been! But I can’t tell you for sure who wrote it. The genre of Sunshine Pop was all the rage back then, with bouncy little tunes all over the radio, and we were right in the pocket with this one. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">In about 1985 Cac handed off some old tapes for me to enjoy and keep safe, but I was never able to find this one song, which features me on lead vocals, until our friend, film maker Chuck Stenberg, who produced the awesome film “ <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRpYUo2tMD0">The Days of EJD and Concert Services</a>”, found it for us on one of those tapes! So it was truly lost!! You can hear a bunch of Larry and his keys on this one, and of course all those angelic Reign backing vocals. Fire up some incense, splash on some patchouli, pour a glass of Spanada, close your eyes and transport back to 1969!</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><a href="http://www.ricseaberg.com/the_lost_morning_reign_tapes_1966_1971/s/belinda">Click here to hear the song "Belinda"</a></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">Website: <a href="http://www.ricseaberg.com/" style="color: #993322; text-decoration: none;">http://www.ricseaberg.com</a></span><br />
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Ric Seaberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08112232186296844385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17146353.post-56515220833498625342013-01-20T15:16:00.002-08:002015-05-25T17:20:28.837-07:00The Lost Morning Reign Tapes, "Wish I"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I have a client, whom I have done a good measure of handymanning for, who has a bomb shelter in her basement, built in the 1950s, before she purchased the house. It has a big metal door, and once, we opened the thing, just so she could show me the inside. Super small. I didn’t see any air holes either. Probably useless. Probably a good lesson in how crazy a good bit of fear can make a person. Kind of like a concrete tomb. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">In practice, I guess you hear on the radio or black and white tv that the The Commies are floating a nuclear bomb up the Willamette River, and it’s gonna blow any second. So you grab your spouse and your five year old twins named Lana and The Beav and a couple boxes of corn flakes and roll into this dank cave so that after the blast which of course you stylishly survive, you roll out and mow the lawn, maybe have a cocktail mixed in a spiffy Art Nouveau hand painted glass pitcher. “Whew”, Dad may have been heard to chortle, circa 1959. “That was a heckuva nuclear blast. Hear tell that mushroom was sizable!”</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I attended Atkinson Grade School in Portland, Oregon from 1954-1962. These were the years of The Cold War, with that fist pumpin’ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikita_Khrushchev">Nikita Kruschev</a> and Russia, and the real possibility of some type of actual war. At Atkinson, and in schools all over the USA, students and teachers practiced what was called a “bomb drill”, “air raid drill”, or “duck and cover drill”. When a certain sound, </span> generated from the school office, <span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> would permeate the school (I think it was a loud buzzer), all kids were required to line up, march into the school hallways, and hit the floor against the hallway wall, and then “duck and cover”, kind of roll yourself into a ball and put your arms and hands over your head. You know, so when the nuclear blast goes off and burns all your skin off, your head will be protected by your arms. But here’s the weird part. At Atkinson, during the drill, and this happened many times, they played some kind of record over the school intercom, or in some teachers room, of what I would describe as the sounds of a gun fight between airplanes, like what went on in The World Wars, NNNNNYOWWWWWWW, (explosion, ack ack ack ack ack ack), NNNNNNNNYOWWWWWWWWW, etc, while we 8 year olds were ducking and covering. If you went to Atkinson during this time, please comment here to validate my memory of this. Even as a young child, I can remember thinking, this is kinda weird. I mean, this is some scary shit, what’s with the sound effects. I bet it was emanating from the room of one Mr. Ball, he was kind of a nut.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Here’s a photo of my buddy and Morning Reign member Craig “Cac” Chastain, who is a couple years older than me, in about 1968. Cac was a sophomore in high school in Pasadena when I was an eighth grader in Portland, in 1962, during the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_missile_crisis">Cuban Missile Crisis</a>. Cac remarked to me many years ago that this period of our history scared the livin’ daylights out of him, what with all the talk of bombs and the dangers of communism. He once said “I was sure the Commies were gonna be comin’ up the Sacramento River in gun boats”, in a kidding tone, but really, those times were uncertain, and I think all of us kids during that time deserved to be a little nervous. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Well wha’d’ya know. The Commies did not detonate a nuclear bomb in Duluth, or Pasadena, or Portland. But then the Viet Nam War was heating up, and we boys in the Reign were pretty sure we’d be going to Nam. Several of us were given deferments for one reason or another, but our first keyboardist Bob Baker did join the service, and we all thank you so much Robert for serving our nation and risking your life. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And I suppose it’s no shock that with my background, and especially The Viet Nam War, some of the lyrics that were coming out of me back in The Days of The Reign were full of images of suffering and you know, being all critical of war, gettin’ my peace and love on. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Here’s a song titled “Wish I”, which I wrote with Larry Sieber in 1969, whose keyboard figures play a prominent role, and inspired me as I wrote the words. It sort of encapsulates my feelings about what was going on at the time, The War, The Peace Movement, my skepticism, and hopelessness. Which is kinda weird cuz I am down deep a really optimistic person. But that fear, sometimes, it’ll getcha’.</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When we of The Morning Reign moved our operation to Seattle in 1969, our goal was to play more gigs. Cac and Shad had both graduated from Willamette University, and Gene and I had both decided that college was not for us. Because Geno and I were more like Rock Star Lead Singer and Guitar Hero, respectively. We dint need no edge yew kay shun.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And we loved to go downtown to visit our booking agent, pick up contracts, and schmooze. At the time we were being represented by General Entertainment Corporation, who had set up shop in a beautifully remodeled old Seattle brick building, one of the first old Seattle downtown buildings to get a complete makeover. It felt like we were in good hands, when we would walk by the refurbished old Seattle brick walls on our way up the stairs to that second floor office, and then, the world’s most charming young booking agent, the handsome and ultra cool John Bauer would meet us, and give us our assignment for the next few weeks. Being in Seattle, just minutes from our agent’s office, helped us get more jobs. We were playing 3 to five nights a week, and even some daytime jobs. Not getting rich, but definitely surviving.</span></span></div>
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Ric Seaberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08112232186296844385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17146353.post-27116981424140843092012-11-29T15:54:00.003-08:002015-05-25T18:45:00.909-07:00The Lost Morning Reign Tapes: "Feelin’ All The Things"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Erg. My achin’ back. Working part time as I do, as a handyman, at 64, can tend to get a guy into trouble. OK Checklist: Hang miniblinds, Check. Modify strike plates on doors so they close properly. Check. Add trim around kitchen door. Check. Climb into 2’ high attic space and crawl to other side of house to see why vent is leaking. Uh, could we get a younger handyman for that one madame?</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Going through these old tunes from Morning Reign days has been really fun, and even enlightening. For me, hearing the lyrics I was writing at that time can be, of course, stunningly embarrassing, but also, I kinda like that boy there with the pen and the napkin, risking ridicule, scribbling down something about losing a friend in Viet Nam, or professing his love for his child, or imagining what it will be like to be old..........huh?!....imagining what it will be like to be old? </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I guess one is never too young to start thinking about aging, but when one is young, it’s probably not a topic one dwells on, as one skips down several flights of stairs or drinks a pint of whisky. But apparently, it caught in my craw long enough for me to lay down some words on the subject, at 21, and dammit t’hell, I pretty much got it right. And then, just because they are nominated by me for sainthood, and because I am an annoying force, my Morning Reign compatriots actually learned the song, and we ended up recording the thing at Gary Nieland’s studio in Salem Oregon, in late 1969. S’cuse me a moment. I gotta go take some Aleve.</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><a href="http://www.ricseaberg.com/the_lost_morning_reign_tapes_1966_1971/s/feelin_all_the_things">To hear "Feelin' All The Things", click here</a></span></div>
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Ric Seaberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08112232186296844385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17146353.post-77446416208439711472012-11-26T13:27:00.001-08:002017-04-21T06:59:23.354-07:00The Closet<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">In 1971 I left my old band The Morning Reign, to settle down and get a real job, as I have previously detailed in my blog entry titled <a href="http://ricseaberg.blogspot.com/2005/07/institute-of-sanitation-technology.html">“The Institute of Sanitation Technology”</a>. And for a year or so I worked as a janitor, for a larger janitorial company, in Bellevue, Kirkland, and Seattle Washington. It was actually kind of interesting. Not a bad job at all. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I worked at several different places over that time, on the night shift, and the place I worked the longest was at General Telephone in Kirkland, right downtown at the bay inlet. And just a block away from one of my all time fave restaurants, Le Provencal. At night, when I worked, it was quiet, save for the seven or eight guys who worked overnight cleaning and troubleshooting the frames full of wires on four or five floors. I got to know all these guys quite well, play cards with them, and even the building exec, who I spoke with frequently when cleaning his office, became a friend. When I told him I was leaving, to become a baker’s apprentice, he offered me a job with the phone company! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The guys who "worked the frames", as they put it, were a bunch of cray crays, a few years older than I, and we all got along great. They worked hard, but they also took long breaks, you know, when you work the night shift, nobody is looking. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Among my jobs at the building was to sometimes restock the “Office Supplies” closet where multiple supplies were kept, reams of paper, paper clippy stuff, but also, all that stuff that is sometimes needed in an office, well, needed at General Telephone in Kirkland, 1971, anyway. I mean stuff like boxes of cough drops, individual packets of lots of different kinds of pills, Eccedrin, aspirin, Midol, and packets of tea, coffee, that kinda stuff an office worker might need. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Now, it took me about a month to realize that the supplies in the closet were being depleted at, well, what I thought was an awfully high rate of usage. Like, for example, one night, I would go to replenish the closet, and all the coffee packets would be gone, a few dozen of them, and then, next day, only a couple missing. Or say, all of a sudden, a full box of those Eccedrin packets would be gone. Well maybe I’m not a genius but it wouldn’t take much brain power to figure out that many of these supplies were being carted off in droves by employees. Which kind of put me in a weird position. I was quite young, I didn’t really know what to do about it. So I did nothing. I just kept replenishing what went missing. It was basically an honor system, and it was not working. Well, it was working for somebody. Or several somebodies. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; letter-spacing: 0px;">So since this whole closet thing has been occasionally popping into my mind over the years, especially when a 20 would go missing from the till in my bakery, or bakery supplies, a song came down about a year ago, and I have just finished recording it, with the able assistance of Tim Ellis and JP Garau. You might notice a teensy bit of sarcasm in my voice. I hope you enjoy my </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica";"><span style="font-size: 12px;">paean to pilfering, "<a href="http://www.ricseaberg.com/a_certain_level_of_luckiness_2015/s/the_closet">The Closet".</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><a href="http://www.ricseaberg.com/a_certain_level_of_luckiness_2015/s/the_closet">To hear "The Closet" click here</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">Website: <a href="http://www.ricseaberg.com/" style="color: #993322; text-decoration: none;">http://www.ricseaberg.com</a></span><br />
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iTunes: <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/ric-seaberg/id7749841" style="color: #993322; text-decoration: none;">https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/ric-seaberg/id7749841</a></div>
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Soundcloud:<a href="https://soundcloud.com/ric-seaberg" style="color: #993322; text-decoration: none;"> https://soundcloud.com/ric-seaberg</a></div>
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Ric Seaberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08112232186296844385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17146353.post-27981268353354820552012-11-22T11:08:00.000-08:002016-12-07T16:48:41.723-08:00She's an Angel on Paper<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I don’t even know where to begin to describe how much I love my family. First, there's my wife Marie, the light of my life, my sweetheart, my best friend, and man, this gal knows how to make a guy laugh. Marie’s knowledge of and use of the English language never ceases to tickle me. Marie is monster smart. But you probably knew that. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">My step-son Blaine lives with us. No surprise that Blaine is the brightest of bulbs, and given his disability, and how he deals with it, he's basically my hero. Plus he can talk sports way over my head, so I am required to remain humble when I start pontificatin’ about any sports thing I think I know something about. Blaine and I spend quite a bit of time together. We’re buddies.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">My eldest daughter Stacey, who lives in Washington, has a great husband named Tim and 4 of the most amazing children ever. It has been such an honor to watch Stacey raise these great kids, Joseph, Colin, Owen, (or has it been permanently changed to “O-Dog”), and Caitlyn. Where’s the Kleenex?</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">My youngest daughter Amy also lives in Washington, with her husband Gary, and has two kids, Caledonia and Ellery. They’re great parents too.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Ok so maybe I never achieved rock stardom. Or have a luxury yacht sitting on the Columbia. But I do have one awesome family, and on this Thanksgiving Day, 2013, I am so very thankful. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And not to speak for Marie, but I know she’s thankful too, for Blaine and I, and for my daughters, and for these 6 wonderful grandchildren that I brought along with me as part of my dowry! Just this past week, we have been having regular texting with our 10 year old precious Caledonia, who has a funny streak of her own! You cannot imagine how much it pleases me to know that Marie and Calla are carrying on an animated texting session. Especially when Marie blergs out a huge laugh and keeps going till she has to wipe her eyes.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And speaking of Calla, the drawing of an angel you see above is from her hand, and was given to Marie last summer at grandson Joseph’s high school graduation party which we attended at Gramma Donna’s house. After we came home, that angel on paper sat in our foyer for a few days before It struck me that there was a song in my heart, inspired by that drawing. Thanks Calla!!</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><a href="http://www.ricseaberg.com/the_cutting_room_floor/s/an_angel_on_paper">To hear "An Angel on Paper" click here</a></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">Website: <a href="http://www.ricseaberg.com/" style="color: #993322; text-decoration: none;">http://www.ricseaberg.com</a></span><br />
Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ric.seaberg.5" style="color: #993322; text-decoration: none;">https://www.facebook.com/ric.seaberg.5</a></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">CDBaby: <a href="http://www.cdbaby.com/m/artist/RicSeaberg" style="color: #993322; text-decoration: none;">http://www.cdbaby.com/m/artist/RicSeaberg</a></span></div>
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iTunes: <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/ric-seaberg/id7749841" style="color: #993322; text-decoration: none;">https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/ric-seaberg/id7749841</a></div>
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Soundcloud:<a href="https://soundcloud.com/ric-seaberg" style="color: #993322; text-decoration: none;"> https://soundcloud.com/ric-seaberg</a><br />
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