Joining the Fray

Old_Blue · Post by **Old_Blue** » Mon Dec 24, 2007 2:40 pm

Greetings All,

Newbie here but a long time beer brewer/wine maker who has been lurking for a long time. I have read the home site about a hundred times and nearly about every post as best as I can tell. The reason I’m joining now is there is an old guy down the road who is my best friend (besides my wife) by the name of Dooley. He comes from a long line of distillers – cookin’ as he calls it – and makes the best around. Dooley doesn’t read well and is scared of computers and microwaves. So, I printed out the home page and put it in a 3 ring binder and would read it to him when I would go to take him wash. I do the mashing and he does the cooking. I print out the postings too. He agrees with just about everything on here especially the materials and safety parts. We have tried many of the recipes with ujsm getting to be a habit.

A while back we were picking up pecans and Dooley said (paraphrasing here) I’ve learned a lot in my life and forgot a whole lot more. I’ve noticed that on that computer stuff you read to me that there are a lot of new people who are about to get themselves hurt. I think I can help out. Ask them fellers if it will OK for me to put my two cents worth in from time to time. I explained to him about forums and how they work but he said he wasn’t going to step on anybody’s front porch without being asked.

So, I’m asking like I promised, will it be OK for Dooly to help out? I’m sure it is. I’m going to see him in a few hours to take him his Christmas present – a jug of apple jack.

Sorry this is so long – Old Blue.

junkyard dawg · Post by **junkyard dawg** » Mon Dec 24, 2007 3:55 pm

Tell Dooley to come on by... We'd love to have him.

Old_Blue · Post by **Old_Blue** » Mon Dec 24, 2007 4:11 pm

Thanks 'Dawg.

I just got back from taking Dooley his apple jack and committed the ultimate sin - I forgot my guitar! I told him I signed us up and he is pretty excited. So i ran back to get it and thought I'd check any replies brfore I head back down for a night of picking.

Dooley ain't his real name but that's what everybody calls him because "Dooley" is his favorite song. It's the first thing we play, the last thing, and about a dozen times in between.

junkyard dawg · Post by **junkyard dawg** » Mon Dec 24, 2007 4:16 pm

good tune...

I'm a mandolin picker and abuser of the fiddle...

Ya'll have fun!

Ricky · Post by **Ricky** » Mon Dec 24, 2007 4:45 pm

you tell dooley as well as yourself to pull up a chair and join in. nothing like teaching and learning in this forum. welcome!

Post by **blanikdog** » Mon Dec 24, 2007 4:59 pm

Welcome Dooley and Blue. Looking forward to your participation.

blanik

Old_Blue · Post by **Old_Blue** » Mon Dec 24, 2007 5:54 pm

Whew. Dooley about wore me out with that old claw hammer. Had to escape by telling him that his ol' lady has a special Christmas present waiting for his "old rusty nail". He liked that.

Thanks Ricky - Looks like we are between you and North Carolina. If you ever going north on I-85 stop in and we'll put on some ribs and bear down on some of Dooley's "extry special".

blanikdog,
Thank you for making us welcome. Y'all on the other side of this big earth which just got a little bit smaller. I guess Santa is just about there by my reckoning. Hope you get what you wish for.

That goes for all Y'all.

Old_Blue · Post by **Old_Blue** » Mon Dec 24, 2007 6:20 pm

'Dawg,
Got me a mandolin too. POS brand. The strings are upside down from a guitar but making some progress. My wife got me a fiddle a couple of years back for Christmas. First instrument I ever knowed that came in two pieces. Most awful sound known to man came from it. Now I know what Charlie Daniels meant when he said "Johnny, you rosin up our bow"

Never got the hang of it. Got it put for my grandson. Play piano, trumpet, sax, clarinet, guitar, banjer, and learning on mandolin. Studied theory of music and understand most of it, but never came across anything thing as ornery as a fiddle.

Showed Dooley my fiddle and tried to play it for him. His ol' Lady came running out the back door. Thought one of us had hit the cat with a truck tire

. I decided to lay it down a while.

Post by **Uncle Jesse** » Mon Dec 24, 2007 6:38 pm

One of our most valued resources is the older shiners who really lived it. I'm self-taught and I don't have that old school wisdom behind me to guide and teach me. The fact that some of the old timers come here and chime in is one of the real rewards of running homedistiller.

Old_Blue · Post by **Old_Blue** » Mon Dec 24, 2007 7:12 pm

Amen UJ,

Dooley taught me what I couldn't learn from read, read, read, even though the mother site is the best I have ever come across. He came here to where he is today many years ago so his wife could take a job in a sewing room at a local mill. The mill is now closed down of course. He came from around Wolf Laurel (near Mars Hill) in N.C., now he is stuck in upstate SC waiting to "draw my last breath - "from likker or my old lady" as he puts it.
I met him at the feed store one day where he was buying some fertilizer and I heard him over tell the proprietor he was "cooking off a batch" and would bring in some for partial payment. I knew what he was talking about and this lead to this and that and I offered to trade him some of my home brew beer for his "cooking's". I tried his (out of his tool box) and he tried mine ( a weak version of an Irish Stout).
Next thing I know we're a team. I wish I could get into his head for just a moment.

As we get older, we become them.

tracker0945 · Post by **tracker0945** » Tue Dec 25, 2007 5:17 pm

Wished I had someone like Dooley down my street.
I look forward to hearing from him.
Hope you all had a good Christmas
Cheers. and welcome.

goose eye · Post by **goose eye** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 3:25 am

old blue i seed it right off. cant be playin a fiddle you got ta saw it.

Old_Blue · Post by **Old_Blue** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 3:53 pm

That's it, Goose!

I give it another chance every six months or so just to see if it has come around to my terms, so far it hasn't.

Thank Y'all for making us welcome.

inspeedway · Post by **inspeedway** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 9:21 pm

old blue u've got to try a doe bro-i just got back from duck hunting around fair oaks arkansas (where my wife and her family is from) and one of her 50 or 60 cousins knew the cousin of earl scruggs and they brought him over to where we had the m/h and he brought a mandolin,guitar,banjo and a doe bro.(guess thats how u spell it) we played to duck hunting time 5:00, he left that doe bro there for me to play (learn) and its neat - no fingers have to hurt frett'in and it tunes like a bango, sortta easy for us piano and banjo players!!!!
now if'm u'll chit can that ole 2 piece instrument ya got and get a doe bro ole dooley's wife might not think ya run over her ole cat!!!!! looking forward to you and dooleys presents here !!!!!!!!!!

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