My Cleveland Downtown Skyline

My Cleveland Downtown Skyline

My Hammered Dulcimer

My Hammered Dulcimer
my Hammered Dulcimer (See 2/19/08 to learn how it is played & 2/29 /08 to hear the dulicmer being played.And No I am NOT PLAYING THESE TUNES,and DO NOT PLAY ANY OF THE DIFFERENT SONGS POSTED ON MY SITE,WELL AT LEAST NOT YET,MAYBE SOME DAY.

THE HAMMERED DULCIMER


The hammered dulcimer is an ancient trapezoidal musical instrument played by striking the strings with wooden hammers.

Originating in the Middle East about 2000 years ago, English soldiers brought the instrument back to England after their failed attempt to conquer Persia during the Crusades about 1000 years ago. Dulcimers have many names in many lands: santur in the Middle East, yang q'in in China, hackbrett in Austria, zither in Germany, and cymbalom in Hungary. The name "dulcimer" is derived from Latin, meaning "sweet sound". Hammered dulcimers were popular in England during the reign of James I, when the Bible was translated into English as the King James Bible. The dulcimer was mentioned in the Book of Daniel 3:5 among other instruments "..the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer, and all kinds of musick..." The dulcimer was later mechanized to become what we now know as the harpsichord which later evolved in the piano.

THE SERENITY PRAYER

THE SERENITY PRAYER
God grant me the Serenity to accept the things I cannot change; Courage to change the things I can;and Wisdom to know the difference. Amen

GOD BLESS OUT MILITARY

GOD BLESS OUT MILITARY
I saw this and decided that I needed it on my site as well,along with my heartfelt THANKS TO ALL THE VETERANS WHO HAVED SERVED OUR COUNTRY! GOD BLESS THEM AND THE USA.

GOD,Please watch over them

GOD,Please watch over them
with thanks to AirmanMom.click the photo and go visit her.

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Mike Golch
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
I'm a Retired Corrections Officer,and a Veteran. I served in the USAF from July 1971 until July 1974.I have not smoked since July 16,1994. I have been sober since 12/17/1990. I have been married to the same wonderful person since march 1,1980.I worked as a Real Estate agent untill my seizures made it impossible to drive and then I put my licence in escrow with the state of Ohio,in August of 2006.Since than I mainly stay at home,just go out for my doctors appointments or sometimes go over to see family members. My first Posting was done on December 20,2007 that is when I started Rambling Stuff.
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thank you Mighty Mom.

STICKY POST.

as every one know I lost a lot of stuff from this blog due to my own stupidity. I am currently trying to put together the the Ohio Blog Roll and The Recovery Blog Rolls. I need everyone's help in doing this,so if I had you listed on either one of these blog rolls,and I have not put you blog back on please let me know.

Sunday, May 4, 2008

google reader,blogger

Google and all of their fine products never stops amazing me. first there was the problem with Google reader freezing up my computer when I visit some sites.so I dumped those sites.Now it and blogger are conspiring to frustrate me even more by saying a site I visited yesterday from Google reader does not exist.What in the SAM Hill is going on?????????????
I just may have to go back to the old way of visiting to see if there was a new posting.click one every one's site from my blog roll of honor.
Now if blogger would just post my comments to the sites that I post things too.I'm getting tired of the message being undileverable. Sorry Mikey over at the horseshoeinghousewife,your are the current one I'm haveing trouble with.Can someone click the link to her site and tell her why I have not been commenting.Thank you.

10 comments:

The UnMighty said...

I think you're the award winningest blogster in the world. Well done.

Beth from the Funny Farm said...

I'm sorry your having troubles!

jennifer said...

Sorry Mike! It stinks when we can't visit and read each other cause of computer problems.

Hang in there and have a great week.

Jen

Mike Golch said...

Unmighty thanks.

Beth,when life hands you lemon....

Jennifer,all in a days work? i hoe that you have a great week as wel.

Sandra said...

I swear Blogger likes annoying people, I get so frustrated with it sometimes.

Thanks for the comment on my blog this morning, I would have loved to have shared breakfast with you :)

Kari (GrannySkywalker) said...

I've heard that a lot of people have been having trouble commenting lately. It's particularly annoying when you've written a long, rambling comment and then splat! Nothing. I speak from experience. I'm long-winded in some of my comments and sometimes blogger just deliberatly sets out to get me. (That didn't sound paranoid, did it???) lol

Mike Golch said...

Sandra,Sometimes I swear that the staff sits around in a think session trying to come up with ways to agrevate us users.

Kari,You and me both there are times that I just really going with a comment just to hit the submit button and poof it's gone.
I swear thewre is someone somewhere laughing their ass off at how they frustrated me.

Sandy C. said...

I think I've given up on my google reader too. The 600+ unread posts is just to daunting for me....I think I may revert to your way of going down the blog roll.

Mike Golch said...

Sandy C. I still use the reader it does work most of the time and when it does not that is when I go back to the old way of viewing my blog doll members.
I refuse to let the turkeys get me down totally.

Travis said...

Dang! Now that's some continuing bad luck.