Don't know if this qualifies as a local jam, but Pickin' in the Pines is a 3-day bluegrass festival held in Ft. Tuthill County Park just south of Flagstaff. It's a once a year get together, but one of the fun things about it is that folks will camp there and then jam together after the days' activities and shows. There are also workshops for all levels, and a pretty good line-up of musicians performing.Â
They may have to cancel this year. Makes me sad. :^(
Well, I've been checking the website every week and they have canceled this year's Pickin' in the Pines. Really bummed me out. It was the only thing we had planned for the year travel-wise, and Flagstaff is only 90 minutes away so not a long trip, but it's such a fun event we were really, really looking forward to it. 😕Â
Arizonaâs getting hit hard right now with the COVID. Stay safeÂ
@macschildergmail-comThis is sad.Â
@jerseychicadee You are absolutely right. We're currently having an awful spike in cases, worse than in the beginning of this awful pandemic.Â
I found out that Prescott had their Bluegrass Festival after all last weekend. It was something we had planned on going to but I just assumed that they had cancelled it. Town of Prescott was like "We don't care about no stinkin' virus. Wear a mask or not - we don't care!" And this is how certain areas of the country are not getting the number of cases down, in fact the cases are increasing. Pretty scary here right now.Â
Itâs heartbreakingly sad to see so much defiance, disregard and latent disrespect this virus has stirred in people. Â This mask thing is silly. Just wear it and if someone else doesnât stfu and âworry bout yourselfâ. To see people being attacked, spit on, coughed on is ridiculous. I barely go out for fear of the psychos!!!Â
Pretty much everything is getting cancelled. Here in CA they banned signing in church. Whatâs next? Are the going to outlaw dancing? Wait I think that was the story line of the movie footloose LOL
@jerseychicadee I agree. If the majority of people wear masks and some don't we're still going to cut down the number of cases. This virus is just so contagious, the worst thing we've seen in a long time.Â
I'm still bummed that they had to cancel the Pickin' in the Pines this year. It would have been this month and I can't quit thinking about it. Sure will be glad when this whole Covid-19 nonsense is over and we can get back to normal. ☹️Â
I had quit my call center job in January to go drive Uber. When the crisis started I had to shut er down because Iâm old and pretty decrepit. I decided to go back to work last Monday at the call center job working from home until the crisis is over. Then today they announced theyâre closing the brick and mortar site and the entire call center will be working from home. Iâm glad for that. The place was a sty!!! I donât need to make a ton of money but sure canât sit here 24/7 forever! I have to work to feed my guitar habit !Â
Are you getting close to retirement? What kind of call center is it? Just curious.Â
Iâm retired from Nursing (in Orange County by Disneyland) for 10 years now. My knees are shot. I just canât run with the 23 year olds anymore. I was a supervisor but those youngsters all thought they knew it all. I got the hell out of there after 30 years. Â Just started doing Lyft/Uber for some mad money in Oct 2018 but gas prices in California got so high I went into the call center sitting on my butt. Â Verizon Customer Care. When you call into Verizon thatâs me. I quit in Jan and went back to Uber/Lyft because again the youngsters just donât respect us old timers. The pandemic has now closed the call center and they really need at home workers. So these 23 year olds with their GED degrees who think they run the world at $14 an hour will never see me. Lol. There are several call centers in your area. I know that Alorica has centers all over.Â
Well, we're going to try to go to Pickin' in the Pines again this year. I'm hoping that with the vaccine out they'll go ahead and have the event.Â
