Davis Garden Show, April 25, 2024
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 12:00pm | Don ShorToday's topics: articles about easy gardening, roses for a school garden project, watering schedules for houseplants. repairing or replacing a damaged lawn, and more.
Today's topics: articles about easy gardening, roses for a school garden project, watering schedules for houseplants. repairing or replacing a damaged lawn, and more.
On this episode: we’ve got some '30s jazz first, Count Basie with Jimmy Rushing, and Lester Young. Then samba and bossa nova, with Stan Getz our featured artist, working with Gary McFarland, and Antonio Carlos Jobim, and we’ll hear Paul Desmond and Walter Wanderley.
For the rest of the program, it’s Bill Evans, Pat Metheny, The Rosenberg Trio, Dianne Reeves with Fabrizio Bosso, Allen Toussaint, and Jim Hall.
In this hour we listen to some past one-hit (or more) wonders, and learn what happened to the singers and writers.
Check out the playlist. It is amazing how some of these songs became part of our musical heritage.
Tonight (April 19) in the Electric Compost Heap at 6 p.m. Pacific time, host Dug Deep will feature tunes from a few bands playing at this year's Davis Music Festival -- the schedule was just released and it has us pretty jacked up! I mean, just look at this lineup! Oh, and the official color of tonight's show is chartreuse! Yes indeed, hope you can tune in at KDRT.org.
Today's topics: tomato time, marguerite problems, low water hedge choices, fireblight on Photinia, caterpillars on passion flower vines, ornamental sages, April flowers, clivias, and more.
KDRT 95.7fm invites YOU to the official launch of Suds & Sounds at Armadillo Music in downtown Davis on Wednesday, April 24, 4 to 6 p.m. Meet K-DiRT friends and fans, listen to the music, and pick some vinyl to spin! Beverages will be available at the Bootleg Bar. Cheers!
On tonight’s show:
KDRT participates in lots of events in and around Davis – and spring's busting out with opportunities to get out and about. We announce happenings on air daily via the Events Outlook – listen up at noon and 6 p.m.! We also post a full Events Outlook listing online – check it out, share it freely, submit your own event.
We have old-time and new time tunes and songs on this week's High Country Music, with Late for the Train, Town Mountain, John Hartford, Sierra Ferrell, the band Della Mae, Billy Strings, The Faux Paws, Sam Bush Jessica Malone, Ola Belle Reed and Doc Watson with Clarence Ashley.
In Harboring Happiness: 101 Ways to be Happy, author Dan Brook says happiness is worth pursuing despite all the awful things happening across the globe. He bases this on research and on what he has learned during his decades as an instructor and sociologist (he earned master’s and doctorate degrees in sociology from UC Davis in the 1990s).
So how do you become happier? You probably have to work at it. His suggestions range from “getting more experiences,” and feeling gratitude, to “being around people who make you happy” and converting the fear of missing out into the joy of missing out.
“I’m happy not because I ignore the problems of the world, but in spite of them,” he says. Work to fix what’s wrong, but “being miserable does not help solve those problems.” He elaborates on his ideas during today’s Davisville.