{"id":5306,"date":"2021-10-12T06:22:28","date_gmt":"2021-10-12T06:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/websterart.com\/wordpress\/?p=5306"},"modified":"2021-10-12T06:22:28","modified_gmt":"2021-10-12T06:22:28","slug":"lawn-sod-and-a-black-bird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websterart.com\/wordpress\/2021\/10\/lawn-sod-and-a-black-bird\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawn sod and a Black Bird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Got up at 6AM to drive to Yelm for a pickup bed full of lawn sod. The fork lift driver was very, very precise as he loaded a\u00a0 2000 pound pallet of lawn sod into my Tundra. I needn&#8217;t have worried. He missed my canopy lift struts by a millimeter&#8230;no harm done.<\/p>\n<p>Clint showed up at 10 AM and we-he put the lawn down where there used to be a rotten deck. 18 x18 plus a 12 x 12 foot square area of dirt was well and fully sodded. Is that a verb?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m over halfway through a youtube tutorial on Blackbird.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"The Beatles Blackbird Acoustic Guitar Lesson + Tutorial\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5TnySn2KqD4?start=181&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Both Fletch, Carl and Chad can all\u00a0 play Blackbird. It&#8217;s kind of a signature song for serious guitarists. Right up there with Stairway to Heaven. If someone can play Blackbird, you know they are good.<\/p>\n<p>I nailed it in a few hours. I mean I&#8217;m literally playing it from memory. It was so satisfying to learn a new and difficult song so quickly. You get to be 67, and you start to wonder if you&#8217;re loosing your edge. I mean, it happens. Old people get old. But there I was playing quickly and cleanly with passion, no sheet music. Super happy about that.<\/p>\n<p>Chris and I led Morning (Glory?) over at the tunnel at Index. It was 3 pitches. Then we did GM. Chris led the first pitch. It&#8217;s free soloing above a ledge but only about 5.7 friction. I probly could have led it? But I was so glad she was willing. I had to hang twice on the second pitch. It&#8217;s got some 5.9 undercling layback moves. There is a really cool no hands knee bar there. Once I hung on the two blues I felt more relaxed. I placed a 4 from the hang, got some slack, clipped it and hung again. I was about to say &#8216;take&#8217;, but Chris already had me. She was like: &#8220;We&#8217;ve been climbing together a long time. I got this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After that, I began under clinging the red crack. It&#8217;s just a few moves then you throw for the hand jam above the undercling and you are golden. The rope got stuck in a cam as I was pulling up her line. I had to rap down to clean it. That was scary. She had me on a fireman, and I had a prusik, but I was out of my comfort zone. I had to climb up by french freeing and walking a couple cams while reverse rappelling on a single line. Not fun at all.<\/p>\n<p>She led Heart of the Country in the last light. I bailed on the follow due to the late hour. I let a rap line fall out of reach. I had to short line over to it. These kinds of things never happen to us. So weird to have two bad things happen on one climb. She was like: &#8220;We are better than this, what&#8217;s going on?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The grass looks really good. I hope it lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Got up at 6AM to drive to Yelm for a pickup bed full of lawn sod. The fork lift driver was very, very precise as he loaded a\u00a0 2000 pound pallet of lawn sod into my Tundra. I needn&#8217;t have worried. He missed my canopy lift struts by a millimeter&#8230;no harm done. 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