BILL BLOG
Monday September 26, 2025
Friday morning, back in Nashville. 79 with sunshine here. Meanwhile, weather folks are talking about two tropical cyclones that could collide and then come together in a big storm, and then possibly hit the East Coast. That can’t be a good thing.
YESTERDAY
I caught one more Reds baseball game in Cincinnati, their last home game of the season. There was a one-and-a-half-hour delay due to rain, but eventually they rolled up the tarp and got the game in.
This time, the Reds beat the Pirates to remain alive for a wild-card spot in the playoffs coming up. It’s pretty exciting when your team is playing meaningful baseball in late September, and it’s been a while since that’s happened for Reds fans.
Now it’s on to Milwaukee or the last three games. Fingers crossed.
It was a fun couple of days being back in the home of Skyline Chili.
SONG OF THE DAY
This is a southern-rockin’ tune that Brady Seals recorded, “Southernism”. It was Brady’s idea, and he wrote it with me and my friend Josh Shilling online one day a few years ago. Josh is out on the road with Wynonna playing keyboards and singing. Check out all the things we tucked into this song about the South.
HEALTH NOTES
A leading plastic surgeon thinks running ages your face. He suggests riding a bike as an alternative to running.
Richard Sterban, the great bass singer for the Oak Ridge Boys, announced that he has pancreatic cancer. It was diagnosed back in March. All good thoughts go to him battling that. He says he’s getting the greatest care, and feels confident he’ll be back on stage entertaining soon.
Scientists are talking about new eye drops that may replace reading glasses for those struggling with age-related vision loss.
HERE’S YOUR SIGN
I THINK “Some” is the guy’s first name?
SEDONA
My friend and Arizona Hall of Fame travel writer Roger Naylor put up a post on his Facebook page this weekend with this picture.
That’s me on top of Devils Bridge in beautiful Sedona. Roger, who is a pro-hiker on top of being a pro-writer, guided me to the top one day when I was out in Arizona to work on the Grand Canyon Railway for a week, singing to the tourists on the train ride from Williams, Arizona, to the south rim of the canyon.
This is part of what my friend wrote about that memorable day and hike.
Here's a photo of my good friend Bill Whyte when we hiked back there many years ago. It was before cell phones when I had an old, cheap camera, as you can tell. But of course, I took a photo. It was the culmination of a great day. I was glad to have a memento. But the experience was why we came, not the photo.
If you’re ever in Sedona, and your legs will allow you, take this hike. The payoff is incredible. Make a few more memories in your life while you can. And thank you, old pal, for this great memory.
DEAR ABBY
Her column had this headline question today. “My boyfriend cooks for our dogs, but won’t for me. Do I leave?” We’ll see how that turns out.
Folks get close to their dogs. And there are lots of good songs about man’s best friend. I’ve got a couple of dog songs in my catalog. One that says, “When mama ain’t happy, I ain’t happy, and the dog’s in a really bad mood.”
Scotty Emerick wrote a song that Toby Keith recorded, “I wish she loved me like my dog does”.
NEW DOG SONG
But this dog song is an Old Yeller tear-jerker song from Hardy titled “Dog Years”. It will move every dog lover, so keep some tissues handy when you listen and watch the video. Miranda Lambert, who is a HUGE dog lover, wanted to record this song, but decided not to because she didn’t think she could sing it without crying. Listen, and you’ll understand why she made that decision.
OFF TO JAIL
A woman from Missouri will serve five years in prison because she tried to sell Graceland, the home of Elvis. The problem, of course, was that she did not own Graceland. She claimed she did, and some fell for the scam.
Yep, deservedly, she’ll serve a “hunk a hunk o’ time” behind bars.
OH WILLIE!
Here’s one Willie Nelson story I had never heard. He admits that he and his band used to shoot Bibles on his tour bus and bet on which book the bullet would stop in. Uh huh. You can’t make that kind of stuff up.
Some band member would holler, “Deuteronomy,” and then fire.
That may be the reason Willie got branded as “Outlaw”.
TODAY’S QUOTE
From Mark Twain:
“If a person offends you and you are in doubt as to whether it was intentional or not, do not resort to extreme measures. Simply watch your chance and hit him with a brick.”
TODAY
I’ve got the day off…and the weekend in front of me with a lot of football teed up. And…the Ryder Cup is this weekend, possibly the best golf event ever to watch on TV as the European squad battles the American team. So, I’m preparing to put my feet up.
Have a great weekend!
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