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Friday November 29, 2024

 

Happy Friday! 32 degrees right now with a high in Nashville today of 43 before dipping to a cold 25 later this evening. Time to put the trap door up.


YESTERDAY

Anyone else still in a turkey coma after yesterday? My wife and I sat at a long Turkey table with the Scott family and some great friends. We could not have been in better company so thank you Chris & Hillary and Lang and Linda for inviting us.

 

We certainly missed seeing our daughter Heather again this year and her husband Casey who are stationed overseas with the Army right now. But we were surrounded by people we love.  I hope each of you had a wonderful Thanksgiving Day as well.

 

 SONG OF THE DAY

Today I’m sharing a song I wrote with Paul Bogart about his youngest daughter Gentry. Paul lives out in Oklahoma…a real deal cowboy George Strait singing son of a gun. The two of us wrote a song for both of his sons that he recorded, and then when his youngest came along…a baby girl…Paul wanted to write a song for her as well and invited me to help. Check out "While She's Mine".

 

And since I’m a Dad to an only child…a daughter…it wasn’t too tough for me to relate to Paul’s feelings when we wrote this.


 

 

THE ROAD AHEAD

Here’s a look at when and where I’ll be playing through the rest of 2024 and the first month in 2025.

 

Friday December 6 at Starstruck Farms in the “Grand Ole Barn” with “Hits & Grins” alongside Steve Dean, and Victoria Venier. Dinner and show that starts at 7:30 pm.



 

Saturday December 28 for 2 shows at Main and Monroe in Lexington, TN with Lauren Mascitti.

 

Saturday January 11 at house concert in Thompson Station, TN with Lauren Mascitti & Wil Nance.



 

Saturday January 19 in Kill Devils Hill, North Carolina at First Flight High School with our Linda Davis and Lang Scott.



 

Sunday January 19 in North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina at the Greg Rowles Legacy Theater with Linda Davis and Lang Scott with Darin and Brooke Aldridge.



 

Tuesday January 28 at the Bluebird Café in Nashville with Brent Burns, Steve Dean, and Victoria Venier. A 6 pm show.



 

More details on all of these shows and other is available in the TOUR section here on the website.

 

HEALTH NOTES

A Doctor listed 4 Thanksgiving foods that could give you heart failure.. Stuffing, honey glazed ham, green bean casserole, and alcohol. (Now they tell us!)

 

Treehouse Foods is recalling frozen waffles and pancake products sold at Walmart and Whole Foods because of listeria concerns.

 

The CDC reports that vaccination rates for flu and COVID are low this season. 35% of Americans have received a flu shot and only 18% rolled up their sleeve for COVID shot.

 

HERE'S YOU SIGN


 


 If you know…you know.

 

HIGH PAY…NO DEGREE

Stacker just listed the 50 highest paying jobs in the country that require no degree. Here’s the Top 5.

 

5 Power distributors and dispatchers. Average pay $98,530

4 First-line supervisors of police and detectives pay $99,330

3 Commercial pilots pay $99,640

2 Nuclear power reactor operators pay $104, 260 (No wonder Homer Simpson looks so happy)



 

And number 1 is Makeup artists, theatrical and performance at an annual pay rate of $131,750

 

And if you’re curious…here’s the rest of the list.

 

THEM AND US

Check out this two story motor home owned by actor Will Smith worth 2.5 million dollars.



 

Who knew they made a two story mobile home? 1,200 square feet with a 32 seat cinema! Take a little tour here if you’d like. You’ll see it’s a tad fancier than the motor home I once owned.



 

A BIG TIME MEETING

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg had a meeting with President elect Donald Trump. I can only hope that Trump was meeting with him to get him to stop all those danged t-shirt notices that are never ending! I hope.

 

DOLLY

A Wide Open Country article reveals that Dolly Parton can be a tough boss…and that she fires a lot of band members. Dolly says, “I can’t work with squirrels, dope addicts or drunks.” Not that all band members are fired for those reasons but Dolly has not achieved all she’s achieved by not being a perfectionist and wanting only the best.

 

Although…if I were to start a new band I might very well name it “The Squirrels.”

 

FLORIDA PANTHERS

It’s not just Grandma getting run over these days. In Florida some 30 panthers…an endangered species have been killed by drivers hitting them. Not something we see here in Tennessee. Deer yes…panthers…not so much.

 

HERE’S YOUR BILLBOARD



 

So ladies if you’re looking…

 

TODAY

Leftover, avoiding Black Friday crowds and a little football on this lazy day after Thanksgiving.

 

Have a great weekend!


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