Grateful.
That's the word that best describes our feelings about the "heroes" who came to our plumbing rescue yesterday.
Such efficiency along with skill and knowledge and some dirty work---all combined to solve our problem and have us back and flushing by 11 a.m. on a Friday before a weekend.
This amazing service involved two businesses: VIP Plumbing, owned by our regular plumber Joe Zavala and KG +T Septic Service where we happily did not have to return the merchandise because we were so satisfied.
We also know where our septic tank is located, thanks to Joey's knowledge of the way things plumb.
To say that yesterday's fix on the plumbing went like clockwork would be an understatement.
Once Joey looked into the septic tank, he gave us a service to call. I called, and about 20 minutes later, the truck pulled in the driveway.
While Joey and his assistant Jada worked inside on a new floor flange for the toilet, the nice man from Bonners Ferry pumped the tank.
Bill and I are still amazed and totally appreciate how smoothly and quickly this "crappy" situation was rectified.
Many thanks to Joey, Jada and KG and T for making our day and returning our lives to normal, regarding a basic essential.
And, I thank Bill for filling in the hole where the tank lid is located. In no time, with a little grass seed, we'll never know the ground was disturbed.
And, that's vitally important to this "yard Nazi," an appropriate term borrowed from Jada.
Life is good this morning, and we have a new appreciation for flushing.
There was even time during Joey the plumber's visit for him and Jada to get acquainted with the horses.
We had a nice surprise last night while leaving Sweet Lou's for our Friday-night dinner.
Willie and Debbie's German exchange student Emma was coming in with the Casey family for their Friday night dinner.
Emma and Brandon are home from the University of Montana for a quick social event.
Always good to see them.
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Speaking of Montana, I saw the following review on a Facebook post yesterday.
Brady Lux, the subject of this music review, grew up in our old neighborhood off from Woodland Drive.
----Photo from Saving Country Music
We haven't seen him for a while but have gotten reports from his parents, Dave and Nancy who both worked locally for the U.S. Forest Service.
This review is great, and what an amazing and wonderful surprise to see what Brady's up to while working on a Montana ranch.
Who knows where he'll go from this point in his musical journey. It will be fun to watch.
After reading the review, do click on the link and listen to one of Brady's songs. I think you'll like it.
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Review from Saving Country Music
Feb. 16, 2024
Now
that everyone wants to go country including Beyoncé, many country folks are
wanting to go Western. Thanks to the popularity of the Yellowstone series and Steven
Rinella, folks are moving up to Montana in droves, walking around with a stupid
chip on their shoulder like they’re Cole Houser, or importing their fair trade
gourmet coffee routine and LL Bean wardrobe to the Big M. God help them up
there in Big Sky country.
The world is full of Instagram cowboys these days who always seem to have someone there to shoot the perfect reel as they ride off into the sunset. But as the new batch of “Western” musicians bray on and on in service of anachronistic cowboy cosplay, Brady Lux is here to sing about the true cowboy experience of today, which is a strained relationship with the modern world, trading out horses for 4-wheelers, and fighting off high feed costs and the onslaught of land developers.
Forget not having a fancy label and marketing team, Brady Lux doesn’t even have a Facebook page, or any social media for that matter. From Big Timber, Montana between Billings and Bozeman, Brady is a genuine ranch hand cowboy who works his ass off every day, and at night he writes songs and saws a little fiddle when he can find the time. This has resulted in songs that don’t rely on nostalgia, but offer honest insight into the strange juxtaposition of a real Montana cowboy trying to interface with the ever-evolving world.
This is all perfectly encapsulated in the opening song “Little Bo Peep” off Lux’s debut album Ain’t Gone So Far. It takes both cutting humor and absolute truth and delivers them with wit. This is Western music for 2024 that conveys the actual reality of things, and tears back the veneer. Same goes for the second song “Four Wheeler Cowboy” and the commentary of a traditional cowboy trying to navigate the contemporary world, “Bozeman Girl.”
But this isn’t all pissing and moaning about Californians moving to the mountain West and the scourge of Tik-Tok. “Take Me Back to Montana” might be about feeling unfamiliar with the world outside of the Big Sky country, but at its heart it’s a song about appreciating Montana as home.
The world is full of Instagram cowboys these days who always seem to have someone there to shoot the perfect reel as they ride off into the sunset. But as the new batch of “Western” musicians bray on and on in service of anachronistic cowboy cosplay, Brady Lux is here to sing about the true cowboy experience of today, which is a strained relationship with the modern world, trading out horses for 4-wheelers, and fighting off high feed costs and the onslaught of land developers.
Forget not having a fancy label and marketing team, Brady Lux doesn’t even have a Facebook page, or any social media for that matter. From Big Timber, Montana between Billings and Bozeman, Brady is a genuine ranch hand cowboy who works his ass off every day, and at night he writes songs and saws a little fiddle when he can find the time. This has resulted in songs that don’t rely on nostalgia, but offer honest insight into the strange juxtaposition of a real Montana cowboy trying to interface with the ever-evolving world.
This is all perfectly encapsulated in the opening song “Little Bo Peep” off Lux’s debut album Ain’t Gone So Far. It takes both cutting humor and absolute truth and delivers them with wit. This is Western music for 2024 that conveys the actual reality of things, and tears back the veneer. Same goes for the second song “Four Wheeler Cowboy” and the commentary of a traditional cowboy trying to navigate the contemporary world, “Bozeman Girl.”
But this isn’t all pissing and moaning about Californians moving to the mountain West and the scourge of Tik-Tok. “Take Me Back to Montana” might be about feeling unfamiliar with the world outside of the Big Sky country, but at its heart it’s a song about appreciating Montana as home.
Helping Ain’t Gone So Far along is the fact
that the music is straight country and Western, with lots of steel guitar and
fiddle layered on strong. Produced by Landon George and Jackson Grimm, the
twang really cuts through the mixes, and the musicianship is one of the album’s
assets.
It’s fair to say that a few of Brady Lux’s songs could have used some
tightening up with the writing. Some lines falter or fail to rhyme. But that’s
gonna come with the authenticity of this music. These are songs and tracks
written and recorded in Montana, and presented to the public warts and all. If
you want perfect, like the sheen on a Southern California investment banker’s
Subaru who just moved to Bozeman, you’ve come to the wrong place.
Feeling patently unfamiliar with the modern world is what brings out the
relevancy and truth in Brady Lux’s Western music. With only seven songs, Ain’t Gone So Far feels like a
starting point as opposed where he’s ultimately going. Incredibly humble and
maybe a bit shy according to friends, he may even feel weird that people are
even talking about his music in the online world. But what Brady Lux is cooking
up in Big Timber, there’s an appetite for around the world.
You can find more Brady Lux tunes by googling him on You Tube.
Happy Saturday.
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