Three Beautiful Things 03-25-2025: Cautiously Taking It Easy, Feeding Tired Debbie, Surprise! That Was My Voice on the Radio!

1. Have I mentioned in this blog that I am a cautious person? 

Lately, I've been feeling small tugs, not painful, in the general area of where I had surgery. I did a little reading about this and I'm persuaded what I'm feeling, just on occasion, is normal and not a reason for concern. 

All the same, I've cautiously been taking it easy, giving whatever is happening there a chance to work itself out and I'm cautiously confident that my decision is a sound one. I'm feeling fewer of those little tugs and pulls and I'm cautiously thinking I just might be able to pick up my activity again soon.

2. Debbie has had conferences with parents/grandparents/guardians over the last four school days. She held after school conferences last Thursday, yesterday, and today and her entire work day on Friday was a conference day.

Debbie arrived home this evening around 6:30. 

Tired. 

I fixed a flexible dinner, one that could be cooked up and then easily kept warm without overcooking in the electric frying pan. 

It was a combination of red onion, cabbage, zucchini, yellow squash, Yukon golds, green beans, broccoli, corn, and ground beef seasoned with red pepper flakes and Everything But the Bagel seasoning. 

I don't know what to call this mess of vegetables and ground beef. 

All I know is that it's one of my favorite meals, especially when I pour Frank's hot sauce over it. 

And I know it worked for Debbie at the end of a run of long work days. 

3. For an after dinner treat, I enjoyed a sonic 🎶🎶 dessert!

Eugene's KEPW-FM broadcasts Jeff Harrison's radio show Deadish on Thursday evenings at 9:00, but I often listen to it at a different time by going to the station's archives. Jeff's show stays in the archives about two weeks. 

So, tonight, I tuned into the Thursday, March 20th Deadish show and whose voice did I hear? 

MINE! 

Ha! 

I think it was in late 2023 that Jeff recorded me doing a brief welcome to Deadish spot and tonight he used that spot to introduce his show! 

That was a fun surprise! 

As it always is, Jeff's show was also full of fun surprises as he went back to a Zero concert from 1988 and played a cut and then went back to the 1970s to play live Pink Floyd ("Embryo") and live Led Zeppelin ("No Quarter") -- both were extended versions, full of all kinds of jamming and fun surprises. 

In the second hour of Deadish, Jeff turned to the Grateful Dead and played two historic performances, first of "Box of Rain" and then of "Scarlet Begonias". When the Dead played "Box of Rain" in Hampton in, I think, 1986, it was the first time they had performed the song in thirteen years. The Winterland "Scarlet Begonias" Jeff played from 1977 was the last time the Dead played that tune as a stand alone. For the rest of the band's existence, Scarlet Begonias was paired, most often, with "Fire on the Mountain" (Begonias ->Fire). 

Jeff ended the second hour by going deeper into the past of the Grateful Dead so listeners got to hear a solid run of tunes from the Pigpen days, including Pigpen delivering a down and dirty performance of "Good Lovin'".

Jeff then took us into overtime, his After Show,  and played about thirty minutes of Jerry Garcia Band tunes, including my all-time favorite, "Mission in the Rain".