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The love song I just posted by Whitney Houston is my wife’s favorite song. But mine is this one, by Bryan Adams:

This song by Whitney Houston was rated by Yahoo users as one of the top favorite love songs:

I probably should have posted this on Valentine’s Day, but I got busy . . .

Watched the Grammy Awards Show tonight. There were a lot of performers getting a few moments of the spotlight. Nashville was well represented in the winners circle. One of my favorite moments was the show by Pink. That woman is HOT!

I think the show was wayyyyyyyyyyyyy too long. I could have done without a lot of the lame jokes and boring stiff commentary. Some of the awards could have been mentioned in shorter moments that didn’t hog air time.And why were those actors brought into this show? Aren’t there plenty of musicians who would have done a great job on stage reading cues?

It got really boring at the end when they started bringing out rap and hip hop people who I have no idea who they are. Would it kill the show producers to run a little scrolling line at the bottom of the screen with the names of the people on stage? I have no idea who most the blacks were, but to be honest, I don’t even care enough to try to look up any of them either. I don’t like rap and hip hop music – it is disrespectful to women and encourages our young people to do drugs, commit crimes and live an irresponsible life. That should not even be allowed on the radio – it is just wrong to have our young people influenced by this crap.

All this ballyhoo about moving Jay Leno’s show back from 10:00 pm to 11:30 pm is more interesting than Jay’s shows.

I’m a fan of the Letterman show and there is no way I would change the channel from the prime time shows I like at 10:00 to watch the Leno show. I wonder what NBC was thinking? Crazy to make the change in the first place and now the way they are handling it is even crazier.

My sister wants to get her daughter involved in gymnastics and maybe eventually into cheerleading or competitive gymnastics. My niece has a lot of talent and loves to do routines. She is incredibly graceful and has a sense of balance that we discovered when she was very young. I still cannot believe she was able to skip over riding a big wheel and went right to riding a two wheel bicycle at only 4 years old!

Since moving to the Raleigh/Durham area last year, the family has had fun discovering all the good things that area has to offer. I have to agree that the Triangle area of North Carolina is probably as close to perfect as you can get. It’s very family-friendly and there is so much for kids to do, both outdoors and indoors, depending on the season and your interests.

Gymnastics in the Triangle area is served by a great facility called Gymcarolina. I went to their web site after talking to my sister to check it out for myself. I think I will send her the money to get my niece enrolled in their gym classes and if she really likes it, we will try to find a way for her to go to their summer camp this year.

This is Teresa Farris, a singer and songwriter who lives near us. She performs all around town at the little clubs and places that the real musicians hang out. She has some great songs and covers a wide range of genres, from rock and roll to country to bluegrass. If you have a chance to hear Teresa sing, you should make every effort to go – you won’t be disappointed.

With the holidays here, I decided to check my digital camera gear and make sure the batteries are charged, the memory sticks are clear and the lenses are clean.

I am hoping Santa might bring me a nice new camera for Christmas. As much as I love my Sony Cybershot that I got 2 years ago, there have been alot of new technology and enhancements to the newer cameras.

This coming year I plan on taking a professional camera class somewhere and I will want to buy a professional quality digital camera for my new hobby. Some of the photos I took this year are worth printing and framing, and maybe even entering in an amateur contest. So I am going to go ahead a learn more, but new equipment and get busy taking photographs next year.

The Cub Scouts are going caroling tonight. My grandson is so exciting to be going out with the group and singing Christmas songs.

One of my very first musicians that I followed as a teenager. Steve Cropper is a musician’s musician.

The Vienna Syncopators, 1938.

Granddad on piano, Uncle Stanley on sax, Uncle George on trumpet.