Short ramble to a fascinating sound idea

Been thinking today about a relationship I fucked up but good many years ago. I had a dream some months back that I'd run into one of the main people involved at a salad bar; they'd been in a skiing accident and had their foot in a cast. I offered them an arm back to their table and was actually taken up on it... Sat there and ate like normal people. Weeks later a bit of a song came into my mind about the dream. Today I was poking the song in my head to see if it would continue sorting itself out into a nice pile. I was rather amused when I realized the pedal steel guitar base to the music was both the child and the grandchild of the Eagles's "Girl From Yesterday".

Now, pedal steel guitar: when I went to see Arlo Guthrie the first time, with his daughter Sarah Lee and her husband, the fouth guy on the stage, Gordon Titcomb, played the pedal steel guitar. He was about 15 feet away from me, if that: I was in the very front row, and the stage was only up about 2.5'. It was a revelation. I'd never thought about where that meEhwehEhweh-aou sound had come from, and suddenly I knew. And what a glorious sound! Like a harmonica crossed with a theremin, but better.

So today I was thinking, what would it be, a duet for two of my very favorite instruments... The pedal steel guitar, and the bagpipes?

Wow. That would be awesome.

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Last Thursday I actually cooked something that worked. I mean, well. I mean, I sort of threw together a couple recipes and some random thoughts and it actually really worked.

See, this is unusual. Ususally I invent a recipe and it's edible, but perhaps less good than the non-recipe version of the meal would have been.

Anyway, I'm so pleased with myself after eating the leftovers tonight that I'm actually going to put it up here for y'all to marvel at. ;)

( A sort of Portugese Kumquat Beef crockpot thing )