Mountain View - Friday/Saturday

Friday evening, after shopping downtown, some of us went to eat ribs at Bar None BBQ. While we were looking at the menu, I could hear a Hard 2 Git CD playing on the sound system! Did they see us coming?! After dinner we gathered on the porch to do some more picking and singing.

Saturday morning the whole crew met for breakfast at the Folk Center restaurant, or “The Skillet” as some call it. Sam sure has a lot of fans in Mountain View! The waitress at the rib place had asked us Friday night where Sam was. Then, at the Folk Center, a waitress there gave Sam special treatment by replacing his cold pancakes with fresh ones. Sam mentioned something about his cold syrup and she came back shortly with a cup of hot pancake syrup! After leaving the “Skillet”, Tammy, Stuart, Boyd and Debbie made a stop by the old rock amphitheatre where a wedding had just taken place. I think the rain had dampened the ceremony a bit.

Back in town, we wondered around until we couldn’t stand it any longer… Tammy, Stuart, Boyd and Andy Nichols went back for instruments and soon they were picking under a shade tree down town. Before long, all of Hard 2 Git and a pretty big crowd filled the yard. We finally broke up in time to make our dinner engagement at Country Time restaurant, which was also a surprise birthday party for Debbie Nichols and Abby Hayes. After dinner we returned to the town courthouse yard and listened to the Nichols family put on an excellent show. Stuart and Boyd joined the Nichol’s for a few songs before they concluded and then Hard 2 Git took the grassy stage. There was a LARGE crowd gathered to hear both groups. We all went back to the cabins afterward and…I don’t remember for sure, but...we probably played more music!

(Thanks to Debbie Hudgens for helping me remember all of these details! -Boyd)

To be continued…

Mountain View - Labor Day Weekend, 2009

Hello bluegrass lovers! Hard 2 Git spent the Labor Day weekend in Mountain View Arkansas this year. We arrived in three different automobiles at different times of the day. Some are early birds, some are not! Maybe we’ll “git” a bus someday and travel together. That way, those of us who tend to sleep later could climb in a bunk and let the early birds do the driving. Once again, it rained while we were there. Sam says it never rained while Hard 2 Git was in Mountain View until Debbie and I started going with the group. Friday evening we were sitting on the cabin porch and lightning struck in the downtown area about 500 yards from us. In a few minutes we heard sirens headed towards town. Reva said we should put the instruments up and take cover, but we continued to pick and sing anyway. The Hard 2 Git band wasn’t the only Paris folks in Mountain View that weekend. Others joining us were Tammy Huff, Jim and Sandy Lassiter, Ruth and Byron Dennis, Danny and Donna Taylor, Betty Sisson, Kay and Ronald Hays, Abbie Hayes, Brittany Birch, Marilyn and Norris Bolton, Tony and Leslie Cunningham, Jeff and RaeJean Bolton, Joshua Bolton, Arthur and Dorothy Brown, Arthur’s brother and his wife, and Arthur’s sister and her husband.

Boyd

To be continued…