deliriouslove1970. The life & times of Gary and Denise Flanders. (Free and worth every penny. If you would like to compliment the editor, send to garytheflan@deliriouslove1970.com. If you would like to complain, call your mother.)

Even as a boomer back in the 60s, my Mum taught me that ‘a good musician is a good musician’. I never forgot that. There were extremely few finer musicians than Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington.

One essential thing I learned from my Mom was that if someone is a good musician they are worthy of a listen. Our good friend Marilyn Graham recently introduced me to Gregory Porter. I’ve been listening to him often lately. Some ‘throw-back’ elements but new stuff that is genuine and honest.

Bonnie sent me this 56 year old photo on the day when we remember the passing of our Dad. Beyond the strange feeling of being without a Dad for 41 years, you realize that the entire back row in this family shot are no longer here. The only ones left are the little girl, the…

Just because I felt like it.

This is the time of year up here in the mountains when the sap is running in our pine trees. California has more varieties of pines than any other state. One method of identifying a species is to count the number of needles coming out of a branch. If it is a clump you count…

We traveled from Big Bear to Beverly Hills to listen to Craig Jonson talk about his new book and how he came up with Walt Longmire. In addition to Craig, most of the actors from the Longmire TV show were present to talk about what it meant to be a Longmire family member. We took…

You can travel to exotic places and live in far off lands, but there is still something magical about going ‘Up North’. We grabbed our beloved niece and headed up to Mackinac Island. We took the Star Line slow boat over to Mackinac. We stayed at two wonderful B & Bs as we lived in…

Craig Johnson will release the latest in his Longmire series on September 20th. Denise and I started with the Netflix TV series then graduated to the ‘source’ the best modern author we have ever read: Craig Johnson. We traveled to the home of Walt Longmire, Buffalo Wyoming. We met Craig and heard him do a…

A cool website that you can add any image to see what it would look like on a flag. https://krikienoid.github.io/flagwaver/