BILL BLOG
Thursday December 12, 2024
Thursday morning is arising. A high of 49 in Nashville today. Could be much worse. 11 states ae under a winter storm warning with as much as 18 feet of snow with ice expected in some parts of the U.S.
YESTERDAY
I was to write with my longtime friend Steve Dean and new friend Mutt Cooper who was in town from Georgia but Steve wasn’t feeling well (guessing he may have celebrated his birthday a little too much) so it was just Mutt and me at my publishing company. First time writing together.
Mutt brought a really nice bluegrass-gospel song idea that we jumped on and at the end of a couple of hours we had our first song together.
Besides being a songwriter-singer Mutt, who is former military works in Columbus, Georgia doing therapy with out soldiers. We need more guys like that.
Pleasure writing with Mutt yesterday.
SONG OF THE DAY
Today’s song is from bluegrass artist Carley Arrowood who recorded “Deeper in Love” a song I wrote with Josh Shilling…Josh’s great idea. When we wrote that day Josh had most of the chorus already and I was hooked the minute I heard it. Carley, besides being a great bluegrass singer is also a top notch fiddle player. She played fiddle for my friends Darin & Brooke Aldridge before breaking out and doing her own thing. And you can hear her fiddle expertise on this song when you click on the link to listen.
AN AMISH COUNTRY DUO
Check this VIDEO out. This young Amish couple have gone
viral by covering and singing the heck out of an old country classic “Slowly
I’m Falling”. It’s just honest, and organic and catchy as heck. Don’t be
surprised to see more of this. Really
refreshing. Amish Country y'all!
HEALTH NOTES
More on coffee. Harvard University concludes that moderate coffee intake…two to five cups a day is linked to a lower likelihood of Type 2 diabetes, heart disease, liver and endometrial cancers, Parkinson’s disease and depression. Filtered coffee is the healthiest according to them.
The USDA thinks dietary guidelines should emphasize beans and lentils as protein.
Reportedly a record number of kids died from the flu last year. The CDC says that despite that news less than 1/3rd of all kids have gotten a flu shot this year so far, compared to 43% last year.
HERE’S YOUR SIGN
SAVE UP
Reader’s Digest just let us know how much we need in the bank to retire in each state. So I went through all the states I’ve live in and here’s what they say.
Missouri…my home state…$718, 292
Tennessee where I live now…$744, 310
Indiana… $744,310
Illinois…$787, 674
Ohio…$797, 792
Wisconsin…$841, 156
If you want to check out your state…here’s the complete LIST.
REAL LIFE CHRISTMAS TREE DECORATING
A husband shared this.
How me and my wife put up a Christmas tree
Drag tree out
Argue
Hang 500 lights
Argue
Plug in, doesn't work
Argue
Tighten 500 lights Doesn't work
Start drinking
Throw tree against the wall
Put house up for sale file for divorce
THAT REMINDS ME
Of one of my favorite Christmas funny songs from Bob Rivers who’s a longtime air personality out in Seattle. Makes me last every time I hear it. “The 12 Pains of Christmas”.
THEM AND US
Quarterback and now NFL football analyst Tom Brady is selling some of his persona stuff at auction. He sold a bunch of his luxury watches. The fetched 9 MILLION dollars. Pretty sure my Fossil collection won’t do as well at auction.
SPEAKING OF MILLIONS
The Megamillion jackpot just hit 670 million bucks. First thing I’m going to do when I win is buy a Tom Brady watch…or not.
FUNNY JOHNNY CASH STORY
This one came from Dolly Parton who was good friends with Johnny and his wife June Carter. Dolly got along great with June because they both like to talk…a lot. She shared the story about how someone once asked Johnny “Don’t you ever get tired of hearing June talking”? And Cash replied, “No, I do some of my best thinking when she’s talking.”
GAS
Gas prices are the lowest they’ve been since 2021. The 5 cheapest states are…right here in Tennessee at #5. And then it’s Arkansas, Mississippi, Texas, and Oklahoma has the cheapest gas at the pump.
Hawaii is the most expensive. It’s $4.56 a gallon there right now.
HEADLINE OF THE DAY
Stunned LYFT Driver Discovers His Passenger Is Naked In The Back Seat. (I think the driver ripped his mirror off shortly afterwards)
TODAY
I’ll be online writing with Rob Bellamy for the first time in a long while. Rob is out in Boston these days with his wife Ayla Brown who’s a talented singer and former American Idol star. The three of us wrote a lot when the two of them lived here in Music City so it will be fun to catch up their lives today before we start rhyming.
Have a great Thursday!
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