Ralph DurhamLooks like you are saving water however where you live isn't. BTW, it is better if you pan slower with the movie camera.

Tom Hascall ColeRubbish. My movie-making skills are unimpeachable. :)

Tom Hascall ColeTHEY IRRITATED YESTERDAY PRACTICALLY ALL DAY AND THEY'RE IRRITATING NOW.

Tawny OgdenIt is interesting how certain things or experiences stimulate the memory's of our parents.

Sally Cole The news in Tucson keeps announcing flooded streets, days after the big storm.

Joanie Johnson HartmanOooo - that's crazy! Too frickin hot!

Jim ZelenskiRecognize that spot!

Sally Cole In Tucson everyone's out doing their exercise in the early, early morning. There's no other way.

Earla Porchyou should have had two bottlesof water instead of ....

Twila GleasonRez...

Paulette ChartierThat diet pop will kill you.

Tom Hascall ColeDiet pop, also known as favored water, is better. And more healthful than bottled water. The last guy that told me diet soda was "poison" was smoking a cigarette. Of all the things to waste a single second worrying about with all the dangers about me: heat stroke, wild dogs, rattlesnakes, stickers, drunken retired rednecks.... :)

Jim ZelenskiTom, listen to Mom, who knows what's best for you

Tom Hascall ColeI used to to hot hikes; I'd go to South Mountain when it was 115°, but as I got a little older I found that I just couldn't cool off enough in that heat. 111 wasn't that bad yesterday. In the winter I would jog a little, but in the head that is OUT. You overheat in about half a block. You'll die.

Jim ZelenskiRemember (as a teen) working summer daytime jobs out in the desert (clearing the desert and building/expanding the Ben Avery shooting range north of Phx.) and there being a strict requirement to wear wide-brim hat, kerchief, long sleeve shirts and pants (& of course boots), so as to prevent dehydration. Also required frequent water breaks. No pop.

Tom Hascall ColeBoyer Rickel and I worked in the cotton fields a couple of summers. Ah, the shooting range. I remember when we took our students to the superstitions and we shot .22s the cowpokes always gave them a lecture: "Yes, this here target shooting is the most popular sport in America." Dream world. I heard them say it lots of times. Just because every granny's got a gun doesn't mean we love target shooting. I often thought of this because I once bought a .22 and had no place to target shoot. There were scant few ranges, but a bowling alley on every corner. I think bowling is a bit more popular. I hate bull throwers like those cowpokes.

Jim ZelenskiLearning to shoot is certainly a skill to be mastered (& I went out to do it a few times), but after a short while I got bored with it and couldn't see the purpose - plenty of other things to occupy my time. As I undertand it, there are way more guns out there today, but fewer shooters (owners).

Paulette ChartierI believe the most popular sport in the world is Dragon Boat Racing....... or so I've been told.

Earla PorchNext time your out in this intense heat for a length of time bring lots of water NO Diet anything !

Sally Cole Tom, you're worse than the machines!

Tom Hascall ColeYou've got to fill your time somehow out here in Fun Lakes.

Jim ZelenskiIn the struggle among the people, the earth and the machines, the machines always win -

Ralph DurhamAre they aerating the soil so rain will seep in faster?

Tom Hascall ColeSometimes I wish they'd aerate the soil so GOLFERS would seep in faster.

Stephen ColeI think you have finally snapped your cap.

Jim ZelenskiMug in microwave?

Tom Hascall ColeYou disappoint me. :)

Tom Hascall ColeWho ELSE will try to solve the MAGICAL, MYSTICAL RIDDLE?

Tracy ClarkeIs it what's on the mug which might indicate what's in it? But I defintely agree it's in a microwave. Don't keep us all hanging!

Paulette ChartierCoffee

Diane GrantI agree with Paulette, because it would be difficult for me to function without it...

Tom Hascall ColeOh, for crying out loud it's a WHIRLED CUP!

Tracy ClarkeWell I don't know what a whirled cup is unless you mean it's turning around...

Tracy Clarkegoing around...

Tom Hascall ColeWorld Cup

Jim ZelenskiTom, please explain it to the rest of us. Whaaa?

Wendy ColeMust be a Cole thing....I got it right away!!

Paulette ChartierSoccer!!

Tom Hascall ColeI missed the World Cup. Whirled Cup. Visualize whirled peas, etc.

Sally Cole I knew you were talking about the World Cup but missed the "whirled" thing.

Marie MitchellSo sad. I knew Charlie Schwartz; he was Linda's older brother. Linda was my classmate

Sally Cole ant lion, I presume?

Tom Hascall ColeHe was struck and killed by a nervous bread van. Broke his legs. All six of them.

Tom DitsworthIt is estimated that there are some 10 quintillion (10,000,000,000,000,000,000) individual insects alive. Now, however, it appears to be only 9,999,999,999,999,999,999.

Tom Ditsworthhttp://www.si.edu/Encyclopedia_SI/nmnh/buginfo/bugnos.htm

Tom Hascall ColeDarwin noted this and joked that the sky god was most fond of beetles.

Tom Hascall ColeI ran across this video that I made in January of 2013. I have NEVER seen a dowitcher in the month of June. May yes 27 of them and July yes 8 of them.

Diane GrantLove the narrators voice! We had a bat in our bedroom in Pinetop last night. If I hadn't had the pillow over my face while Ed captured it, I could have taken a video & posted it too!

Tom Hascall ColeI confess to being the narrator's voice.

Diane GrantNow I have to listen to it again...

Stephen ColeThose are eveninghawks. It's an easy mistake.

Tom Hascall ColeYou are confusing nighthawks with evening grosbeaks. There is no such animal as an eveninghawk. There are, however, mid mourning doves.

Sally Cole Back in New Orleans I used to run at dusk along the bayou and there would be lots of nighthawks doing that insane flying overhead.

Tom Hascall ColeI think they do an alternate wing flap deal. One wing down, the other up.

Tom Hascall ColeThere are in addition to mid mourning doves, late evening grosbeaks and mountain time zone-tailed hawks.

Tom Hascall ColeAlso early winter wrens and Indian summer tanagers.

Paulette ChartierI'm missing the accordion sound ;)

John WilsonBravo! One more time... a-one an' a-two...

Jim ZelenskiNice!!! Great pics and great music -

Sally Cole who are these people? I see you and Boyer.

Tom Hascall ColeThat's the Dash Inn crew.

Matthew AldersonI like it. Very nice. Leave this on your page so I can listen again. Thank you.

Tom Hascall ColeMatt, I have it here on my personal page for you to enjoy, my most excellent friend: http://tomhascallcole.com/polka%20improved%208%20minutes.html

Tracy ClarkeI thought that was fantastic, I'm sharing it to myself! Please do me a favor and tell me the "names" of each of your guitars. You should find a way to hand them on a wall as art...

Tom Hascall ColeI used a Grand Symphony Mini Taylor, a small guitar for the polka. It doesn't have big sound but it's amazing for a mini and I put 13's (big strings) on it. My main battleaxe is the Red Variax 300 from Indonesia. I love the thing and its back-up is a Chinese model, that pretty black guitar with the tortoise shell pick guard. The others I don't use so much anymore. I added the tortoise shell and so here's the Variax taste test.

Tom Hascall ColeHere's the red one.

Tom Hascall Coleand I like this photo of my red guitar. It has 28 guitars inside it!

Tom Hascall ColeOh, here's the mini Taylor grand symphony. I used it as my main axe for about a year but went back to the Variax later.

Earla Porchso does weed...

Steve RamosNot quite like the ones in the cotton fields, that we swam in but you probably could get your head in it.

Tom Hascall ColeYes, it's much smaller.

Jim ZelenskiFamiliar territory -

Tracy ClarkeOh you sly brother, you...love it! Hito Sally!

Sally Cole And secretly records me in my jammy-suit.

Tracy ClarkeThe nerve...

Tom DitsworthThanks for the sswwarreeee' ... nice seeing you all !!!!

Tom Hascall ColeI have special plans for the cactus which I will share for you soon.

Tom Hascall ColeHere's another time I recorded him when he wasn't watching: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=3101650360809&set=vb.1850725403&type=3&theater

Stephen ColeALL the cakes were eaten.

Tracy ClarkeSuch a multi-talented family...amazing...

Gary HendersonFinger snapppin' good!! BTW Tom, you're one sneaky fellow indeed ! :-D

Tawny OgdenSibs

Mike HudnallIt was so cool to see all the Coles together, and a great crowd as well.

Jim Zelenski(sun devil)

Tom Hascall ColeYou can hardly see the leaves. It's cool on my computer though.

Wendy ColeTake me there too!!

Tom Hascall ColeWe shall have to go.

Paulette ChartierWonder how the birds will handle the noise?

Tom Hascall ColeWell, I don't know.

Peter SheltonFred's Pigeon Loft.

Tom Hascall ColeOh, how I remember Fred's pigeon loft!

Tom Hascall ColeThey don't even have rock shops anymore; much less pigeon lofts.

Tom Hascall ColeRemember Van Horn?

Peter SheltonYes and Miller's Indian Store and the Boston Store

Tom Hascall ColeHere's an essay with Van Horn in it. I can't get the Spanish version out easily as it's mixed in like flour and eggs, but you can get the idea. Oh, I can edit in foolbook so I can cut out the Spanish. Agate Agate is known for its bands of color and is one of the most common semiprecious stones in the display cases of rock hounds. It comes in a wide variety of colors. Every town used to have a rock shop. In fact, in our neighborhood, a man converted his house into a rock shop. His name was Mr. Van Horn. He liked to show us his treasures. One day he showed my brother and me a slab of agate that he had polished. “Look, boys,” he said. “I'm going to the moon.” It was as if someone had painted a spaceship on the slab of rock. The agate was almost black, and on a dark background, there was a white rocket of chalcedony shooting jets and flames of yellow quartz behind.

Tom Hascall ColeLook at the picture of Jan Bradbury on the right! This facebook movie thing is really rather nice and convenient. I hope they come up with more perks like this.

Tom Hascall ColeHowever, it feels a little like a eulogy...

Wendy Colehaha...don't die Tom!!

Sally Cole Somewhere I learned how to do the polka, but I couldn't tell you where.

Tom Hascall ColeI keep looking for the definition of a polka. They're in duple meter and they SOUND like polkas. That's about all I know. I'll have to ask Joey the Cow Polka King some time.

Marie MitchellMy German self just started dancing. I haven't polkaed since i had that Polish priest-to-be in Basic 2.

Jim ZelenskiAs a human of Polish descent, I say, "Nicely Done" (or, "ładnie wykonane")! Many years ago Judy & I decided to go out to the Polish Club (I think it was somewhere near Boulder) for dancing the Polka. Were we ever not ready for that! At the time I was an avid distance runner & played basketball regularly, but the evening of Polka blew me away; never sweated so much in my life, and slept for a dozen hours that night and next day! As a small child I remember my parents cranking up the old record player with Polkas, clearing the floor (the house, at that time, was arranged as a doughnut or race track) and doing the Polka round and round - they had a blast.

Tom Hascall ColeWell, I was going to take up dancing. Swing. There's this girl at the saloon I frequent and she knows all about it. I finally looked at the style she did and it was Lindy Hop where you throw your partner in the air. It's scary and I'm too old. I felt the best dancers erred in dancing too fast --WAY to fast, the result being that they were never ever able to really "stick" a wild move-- just survive it. This video I have post toastied before but I like the singer/guitarist and went to see her in S. Az. Dig these dancers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gl6c4_F7xuo

Joanie Johnson HartmanThen I guess I will never die.

Jim ZelenskiWow - nice!

Wendy ColeLove this one...Give me some notice for your next gig and maybe I can fly down for the nite!

Tom Hascall ColeA week from today. Wednesday seven o'clock PM.

Tom Hascall ColeI'm making a new web page so I needed this video: www.tomhascallcole.com

Tom Hascall ColeI'm not sure I'm fond of the the little tune I whistled in there though.

Tom Hascall ColeIn order to be THRILLED some more, go to: http://tomhascallcole.com/musicvideos.html It's part of the brand new web page I'm making that is of considerable size and interest.

Jenny Anna LindeWonderful, Tom!

Tom Hascall ColeHow come when I look at my video I can hardly get it to run? What gives?

Perry AlbertsonLoved it!

Tom Hascall ColePerry, I should have used your Juan Roberto guitar.

Lesley SanftWe loved it Tom

Matthew AldersonShoot, I like it.

Wendy ColeI love it....I'm stealing it....Only problem you have Noodles and Sonny, but none of your sisters!! Haha...

Tom Hascall ColeOh, it was SO much fun!

Tom Hascall ColeWrote up part of the the trip here for my many Spanish speaking Foolbook friends: https://www.facebook.com/notes/tom-hascall-cole/un-paseo-primera-redacci%C3%B3n-december-flagstaff-trip-journal-entry/10151150151151516

Jim ZelenskiHaha - great job!

Tom Hascall ColeWell, I was born in Kentucky. As you can see and hear every metronome I ever bought was broken because at the end of every song it had always slowed down so much that I couldn't use it.

Matthew AldersonI liked it. Do you always shake your instrument when you finish? Metronomes work best when they are broken I say. And your bass notes probably sound fine in person, I think it is just the recording. I didn't notice that they were over dampened to be honest.

Paulette ChartierI'm impressed that you can play the guitar!

Tom Hascall ColeShaking the guitar after each tune resets it. Heck, you don't need to be Chet Atkins to know that!

Tom Hascall ColeThis is a new style for me and I'm putting it in half of my act now so I get better at it. The thumb pick is the key as without it you get so tired that your hand falls off in under a minute. My old folk picking was without a pick and it is a physical struggle to finish a long song without your hand just giving up.

Jenny Anna LindeThat did NOT suck!

Tom Hascall ColeLong gone Romney!

Tom Hascall ColeOh, this was so much fun to play.

Tom Hascall ColeOur new eight-legged buddy!

Tom Hascall ColeJeff plays "at" Tucson, Arizona. Facebook. Well I hope you like this "story."

Tom Hascall ColeI uploaded this and Facebook posted it without asking. I hope Jeff isn't mad. I liked it, so I left it on the "home" page.

Jenny Anna LindeFantastic! The story had something to do with a big, black bear and a very tiny dog and how they became friends, don't you think?

Tracy ClarkeAnd playing below a Charlie Parker poster, perfect!

Tom Hascall ColeMy effort for comparative study: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=1371098258088&set=t.1850725403&type=3&theater

Jim ZelenskiWay cool -

Sandra Salomé SilveiraThanks Tom Hascall Cole, its just too bad we don't hear too well Glenn Stern lovely Double Bass notes!!!

Sandra Salomé SilveiraBut thanks thanks thanks! Good memories. And lovely friends and musicians reunited . Love arizona. :)

Tom Hascall ColeYou know, I think I've kept this here 'cause it ain't bad.

Tom Hascall ColeI don't understand Facebook. I wrote a note to myself here and suddenly everyone is looking at this video.

Steve FrizzellI like it!

Jenny Anna LindeI really like it, Tom. What/who is in that intriguing crate in the background?

Tom Hascall ColeI don't know why everyone is seeing this dumb video. All I did was write a note to myself. The crate is for the dog. There's some training system that has you put him in a crate. He never got locked in there, but it always gave me the creeps.

Sally Cole Never expect Facebook to do right by you. Very entertaining, though.

Jim ZelenskiNice!

Kurt AldersonThat's great, Tom! After spending about 5 years in the southern states, it makes me nostalgic, too. But I'm not leaving California.

Tom Hascall ColeI don't like the south.

Kurt AldersonAre you referring to the heat and humidity, the ice storms, the tornados, the hurricanes, the lingering attitudes, the mosquitos, the gnats, ... It was a great experience that I wouldn't trade, and there's some great people down there. Kind of like some of your Republican friends. Good folks, just a bit shocking in some of the views they hold.

Tom Hascall ColeWell, you know by my guitar playing that I was born in Kentucky. I'm working on Merle Travis style, which takes years but it's beginning to work for me. I've only played a little in public once. Today I didn't have the strength to practice it. It takes strength. The South. I don't like the hurricanes. It's not the lingering attitudes; I live in Arizona and you just hang with progressives and fellow atheists. No problem. I just feel a newness out west that someplace like Louisiana doesn't have. I don't like the fact that there is no desert there. I don't like the Gulf Coast. It was there that the color "battleship gray" was coined. I don't like fishing in the gulf and dredging around for icky reds that are trash fish somehow promoted to the status of game fish. I lived in Houston for a while. I am afraid of alligators. You go fishing near Houston and one might get you. I'm sure, however, that it's my ignorance that makes me disinterested in the south.

Lesley SanftCourtenay and I watched that .You never told us about your talent. you are good you kept that a secret LOL

Matthew AldersonWriting notes to yourself seems to bring out your most interesting qualities. I enjoyed this video, really. Not dumb.

Stephen ColeTom, you are the club, while Jeff is the rapier.

Twila GleasonDon't forget the small people when you become famous. :-)

Jim ZelenskiYaaaay!

Tom Hascall ColeI haven't watched this in a while. It was a hit in Nicaragua.

Tracy ClarkeBrotherly competition, but can Jeff sing? That is the big question...amazing Tom, you could be making a fortune in your retirement, as could Jeff if you join forces, just my opinion...it's so second nature to you you don't know how incredible the talent is...

Evan CaverninhaOne of my biggest influences of all time!

Tom Hascall ColeI think you mean Fred Rogers.

Evan CaverninhaYes, you are correct!

Tom Hascall Colehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-DsZMKYXzI

Tom Hascall ColeJesus Christ.

Jim ZelenskiThought I wuz hearing one of those deep south country LP records from the '50's!

Tom Hascall ColeI've given up rock 'n' roll, but this is a fun song.

Tom Hascall ColeI can still play that exactly the same way with corrections of course.

Tom Hascall ColeWait for the puppy to come out!

Tom Hascall ColeThe very last howl is the classic howl of stage and scream!

Sally Cole I bet you could teach that pup to yodel!

Jenny Anna Lindevery cool!

Tom Hascall ColeI think the pup yodels better than I do.

Joanie Johnson HartmanWow . . . timing is everything - talk about being at the right place at the right time . . . AND with a camera all ready to go! Way to go!

Joanie Johnson HartmanBy the way, it's still in the 60's (the highs) here in SD and we have coyotes too.

Mary LivingstonI love this video, Tom! Can't wait to see more like it.

Stephen ColeThat's an excellent urban wildlife video. You ought to work for Wild Kingdom.

Charles Wayman MitchellWhat a scream! Nature entertainment at its best!

Ralph DurhamI thought they did that so they couls all have a good laugh when we scambled interceptors.....

Tom Hascall ColeWonderfully noisy, aren't they?

Stephen ColeThat's an excellent beer song.

JL TerrellThat sound like the Tom Cole I remember.

Scott Wagyjust awesome.

Charles Wayman MitchellI think I need to get a cold one myself! Thanks for the inspiration.

Tom Hascall ColeSome labeled the following Mexican journal entry I wrote "Ode to a Beer." Very appropriate here: May 16, 2000 I'd wake deep in the night and pet Noodles, and then reach down and grasp with knobby, sun-browned hand another bottle of Boston Lager. Having prised its top off, I would then pour the contents down my thirsty, beer-starved throat. How Boston Lager dances on the tonsils! And how my parched gullet rejoiced at the cold flowing rush of life nurturing, life sustaining -- indeed, life GRANTING Boston Lager! And how its intoxicants would rush to my waiting bloodstream and then extend their hypnotic tendrils into my anxious, pulsing brain thus lulling me off into hallucinogenic seaside slumber once more....

Ralph DurhamThat's great!

Tom Hascall ColeIt IS a good poem about Boston Lager.

Lesley SanftWell done Tom how is it going over there?

Tom Hascall ColeLesley, it's going well. I'm playing guitar at night and making software for my nephew and some for myself also in the morning and entering birds from 37 years of records from Mexico and making a web page to match them and tutoring some kid in Spanish so he doesn't flunk out of high school and writing fun songs and adding them and others to my 'toire and diddling in my garden and drinking lots of beer at the supermarket bar which is my FAVORITE salt lick and riding my bike 11 miles a day to my favorite birding site where I record all the birds and ride home on the Western Canal and my skin is almost black from the sun so I'm using sunscreen and my ponytail is a foot long. HAVE YOU BEEN ON MORE TRIPS?

Tom Hascall ColeLesley?

Jim ZelenskiI tip my hat to you and your great writing, playing and singing ("but I haven't got a hat...")!

Jim Zelenski& here's that quote's citation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_K1Vju0r6Q

Tom Hascall ColeFunny; that's how I remember cartoons. We're gettin' old. Also, I saw your review of my book, The Sands of Pima Arroyo. You were very kind to give it such a detailed and complimentary critique. I'm working on another Spanish autobiography in my crummy Spanish and two guitar books, one entitled Oh, Had They Only Told Me, in which I tell all the stuff my childhood teachers didn't bother to mention that would have made a world of difference, and also a book called tentatively Musical Bridges, Going from Part A to Part B and back again. The Beatles were successful in part because, as Paul put it, "You'd have a song and get stuck." Then John would pop in and help out. What they were stuck for was a BRIDGE.

Jim ZelenskiThat's great, Tom - please let me know when your next books are out!

Sally Cole I''d give you a five-star review if I wasn't your sister just for the title essay, "The Sands of Pima Arroyo." I wish I'd written that one.

Tom Hascall ColeJim, do you know about Sally's new book, Alligators in the Baby Pool? All Tempeans should have a copy.

Tom Hascall ColeYou see these boobies and they look fat and clumsy and you have no idea what little F-15s they are!

Steve FrizzellThat's really cool, Tom. I've never seen a dove with markings like that. Was that in your back yard?

Tom Hascall ColeI thought I commented here and said, "Yes, sir!" That bird was in my backyard and I also recently got a lark sparrow there, which is a darned good backyard bird. My comment seems to have vanished.