March 28th, 2022. Snow stopped.

Sunday, March 20th found me recording Chuck the Madd Ox in my Lair, helping Chuck with a project that was deleted by a fellow even less professional than I!
Monday we went to visit our friend Pete at the Refuge. I was a little not ready for a good social outing but I tried to be a fun guy.

Well – I went from not sleeping to sleeping enough to get by to sleeping enough to dream – and I dreamt last night of my mighty rabbit army.

Mighty sleepy.

Sigh – I dreamt of a grand war, fought to a stand still but which I was winning as we came down to the last dredges of dirty, tired men. The entire battle took place in a vast cylindrical room criss-crossed with walkways and honeycombed with bunkers and there was smoke and fire and twisted metal and bodies.

However I heard reinforcements arriving and I sprinted to the entry way, a [snow!!!! outside there’s snow!!!!!] large white room now stained with soot and blood, in which a very tall man all dressed in ripped and patched leather, was making his way forward. He had a couple of last troops with him and I knew that this – this tiny squad of tired men – was all that remained between me and survival – and so I went to my rabbit army, exhausted and huddled…

Climbing logs at the Refuge in Woodstock, MD.
Accidentally on purpose left my melodica near Sharif for Wednesday’s Live from the Lair!

And yeah, it was a gigantic pile of exhausted rabbits. Not even particularly large rabbits, just normal bunnies lying in exhausted heaps. I went and pushed at them, I think I gave a great speach. I pulled some out of the pile and more rolled down. I pushed into the warm, furry mass and pried them from their comfortable huddle and tried to push them into the fray but they just went on napping as the enemy came forth…

— Randomly I also dreamt that Mara, Heather’s mom, gave me a new cellphone. Same as the old phone but in better shape and with a different case. I was sitting in a diner constantly getting confused as to which phone I should pick up as notifications or tasks came up. I wasn’t going to write it down because it seemed like such a nothing dream and then I got in my head about how… well… dreams are nothing but in my head, and so if it’s not documented in any way it’s like they never existed and somehow that’s a responsibility and it got weird and melancholy and … hey… the snow stopped.

Thursday night we ran up and back to play the Lansdowne Folk Club in Lansdowne PA (just outside of Philadelphia). Despite HOW HAPPY I WAS to get the HELL out of dodge (Baltimore) I was nervous about the gig. What was our draw going to be like?! How were ticket sales?! What’s it going to feel like?!?!? Etc. I needn’t have worried and we had a great up and back trip, great room, marvelous show. PLUS we came home to Joey on our doorstep!
Love any place that asks us to sign somethin’!

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