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FREE album download – one day left!
Two weeks ago I posted about two important announcements from my band Humming House – and one of those announcements was that the debut Humming House album is, for a limited time, available for FREE on noisetrade.com! That limited time is quickly approaching its end – there’s only ONE DAY LEFT to cash in on…
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Forcing bulbs
The hundreds of bulbs that we planted outside will take a long time to flower…but we want flowers soon!! Luckily for us, mother nature gives us some opportunities to change the course of things a little bit without making a catastrophic disaster happen. So what are we doing? We are forcing bulbs to grow inside.…
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Important Announcements from Humming House!
Dearest friends, If you didn’t know this already, I sing in a band called Humming House. I started singing with them back in February and went on a few small tour runs with them. In May I decided to halt my academic life for a bit and enter the touring / music world full time,…
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Bulb attack!
Some of our favorite flowers are bulbs. Last year when we worked on our new landscape it was too late to plant bulbs and we had to wait to the next fall to plant. Well, fall is here, and bulbs are here! We went crazy planting them throughout our landscaping. I’ll tell you what we…
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Home again!
Ohhhh it is good to be home. I’m currently lounging on the couch, Chupi is curled up next to me asleep and snoring into my leg, West Wing season 3 is on, Javier is studying, the house smells like pesto pasta and life is GOOD. I’m so happy to be back! Humming House was on…
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Sweet potatoes
Sweet Potatoes are a sign of fall. Last year my experiment with growing sweet potatoes was disappointing. The vines grew nicely, but I ended up with just a couple of decent sized potatoes. This season I was determined to do better (which was not so hard after last season’s low standard) so this year I…
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NYC, DC…and hockey
For the last three weeks I’ve been on the road with Humming House for the final leg of our Fall Forward Tour. We started off our time in NYC, staying one night with a friend in his apartment in Manhattan and then relocating to another friend’s loft in Brooklyn. The loft in Brooklyn had an…
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Bruce Munro at Cheekwood
A couple of weeks ago we celebrated my mom’s birthday with a family outing to Cheekwood to see the Bruce Munro light exhibit. The exhibit has been running since May and goes through November 10, but most of it is outside so we wanted to see it before it gets too cold in Nashville. Since…
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Fall Gardening
Last year we didn’t bother planting a fall garden – we let our summer garden die and then started planting cold season crops in January when we started up our landscaping project. This year we decided to plant two kinds of lettuce and spinach for the fall, and when the temperatures really drop we’ll be…
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Baby Gia
Back in September the Humming House tour schedule took us up to Chicago where I got to spend two nights with Ian, Andrea and their sweet baby Gia. I still, still can’t believe I’m an aunt! I don’t think I’ve ever held such a small baby – I felt like I was going to break her. She’s…
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2013 TN State Fair
Alright, this is the last post in our state & county fair series, which is really an excuse to bring you adorable photos of farm animals. Then we’ll move on to more contemporary goings-on in the LRL of late. The last fair we went to was the most excellent TN State Fair, which we think Goldilocks would agree is “just…
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Wilson County Fair
This year we’re collecting fairs – we already wrote about our trip to the Williamson County Fair but we still have yet to post about our trips to the Wilson County Fair and the State Fair. Javi and I have gone to the TN State Fair every year since we first started dating, mostly to…
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Back home for the weekend
I’ve been in recovery mode all weekend. I arrived home Thursday night from a 10-day stretch of tour life with Humming House and I’ve been soaking up the last few days at home before going back out again for another week (or so). For the past 10 days our route looked like this: TN–>PA–>NYC–>PA–>MA–>WV–>IL–>MO–>TN. As…
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Baby Gia is here!!
OUR BABY NIECE IS HERE! Gia Marilyn McClure was born on August 20 at 7:15 in the morning and she’s perfect. Of course I’m biased, but I’ve never seen such a darling baby in my life. Andrea and Ian called to let us know that they were heading to the hospital on August 19 and the…
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Williamson County Fair
Every year Javier and I make a trip out to the TN State Fair, which is usually held in September. This year we decided that one fair wasn’t enough, so we decided to check out the Williamson County Fair to see what it was all about. For us, the fair is all about seeing the…
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Sunday Morning Pancake Mix
This is one of those posts where we’re going to be bold and go ahead and say “you are very welcome” for introducing you to this fabulous new tasty treat. One of our friends here in East Nashville recently started up a business called “My Friend who Loves to Cook” and her first big product…
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Congratulations David and Sarah!
Last weekend Javier and I took a quick day trip to Bryantsville, Kentucky where two of our dear friends David and Sarah tied the knot. The wedding was held at a lovely farm outside of Lexington, KY, outdoors under a weeping willow next to a pretty little pond on the property. We were surrounded by…
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Big changes in the LRL (don’t get too excited – no baby announcements here)
I play the “this point in time” game with my life regularly. You know, the: “this time last year I was doing this” or “this time last week this happened” or “this time tomorrow I’ll be doing this!” So here we go, time to do a little of that on the blog. This time last…
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LRL out to the ballgame!
Summertime for us means a number of things: gardening, heat, porch time, pool time, summer shandy, grilling out, gardening…but rarely does summertime mean baseball in this household. Javier isn’t a huge fan of the sport and I’m not a big enough fan to push the issue of going to the ballpark from time to time,…
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Choripan – the food not the pup
I mentioned on the pan amasado post that we used the bread to make Choripan – so here is that story. Choripan, besides being the name of our youngest pup, is a popular dish back home in Chile. It is similar to a hotdog but instead of a regular hot dog you use chorizo. This was…
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