On 9-Jan-2010, MajorOz wrote:

Recommendation: In addition to doing more of what you like, LEARN NEW
STUFF -- LOTS OF NEW STUFF.

cheers

oz

Thanks
Finding something new to learn is easy - I don't have to search too far.
Old time fiddle and Celtic music will keep me going for years learning
new
stuff

but

What really ****es me of , even more so than the political stuff in a
fishing forum, is that
My old soggy brain does not take things in as easily as it used to - nor
does my body .

I went to a fiddle camp last summer and there were 12 yr old kids
picking up
new stuff easily after a few hours
Me I had to go home and practice for 3-4 mos

Luckily I can read water and cast fairly well
and
Playing *w the grandkids is definitely a good thing to do

Fred

Let me tell you where you can do both VEEEEEERY enjoyably.

Mountain View Arkansas

From 17 April till 31 Oct, and every other day it ain't too cold to
move fingers, MV is the music jammin' center of the galaxy. On, and
near, the square, 24/7 are dozens -- sometimes hundreds -- of groups
pickin' and grinnin'.
Starts out as Bluegrass and Mountain Music, but groups wander off into
almost everything: classic country, gospel, blues, etc, with
amalgamation of types the norm, rather than the exception. Pickin'
circles consist of all levels of skill. Often there will be someone
who picked up a guitar last week sitting next to a headliner at the
Opry for the last 20 years. They each politely take their turn.
Nobody will tell you how to play, but everybody will help, if asked.
Acoustic instruments only -- amplifier and microphone users are
bundled up, run out of town, and dropped off a cliff. [ when the
Cajuns show up with squeeze boxes and washboard aprons, it is a
special treat ]
The place is loaded with motels, RV parks ($16 for everything,
including cable TV), B&B's, etc. (google it up)
Nearby are the tailwater fisheries of Norfork Lake and Bull Shoals
Lake, plus many limestone smallmouth and trout streams in the area.
HUUUGE browns, and the biggest brookies I have caught since Leech Lake
in Washington.
It is the lowest cost of living in the nation (with the exception,
perhaps, of the MS delta), with some of the best eating.
I spend much of my "retirement" there.
Give it a try.

cheers

oz, who will be found with a dobro in town and wading wet in jeans
with ratty home-built graphite rods on the rivers

Sounds great If its warm I am leaving tomorrow


nobody will tell you how to play, but everybody will help, if asked"

That is the way it usually goes at good events
Show people how to play something, note progressions or fingerings or
helping them cast a fly rod better.
Why not?


Acoustic instruments only -- amplifier and microphone users are
bundled up, run out of town, and dropped off a cliff.

er ... ah... but on second thought ... I only play acoustic at low levels??
and only on the third Tues of ea month?

Cajuns show up with squeeze boxes"
Accordions -I love Cajun squeeze box - Newfoundland and Celtic tunes on
them can bring me to tears.


HUUUGE browns, and the biggest brookies - I am leaving for there tonight
It has to be warmer than here?


oz, who will be found with a dobro in town.

Sounds great to me
I have passed on this info to my boss..SWMBO
Perhaps a ROFFian duet or clave?
Room for other participants and players.

Thanks for the info

Fred