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Video: Watch this absolutely incredible guitar picking by a 13 year old musical prodigy

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Grace Constable is an ultra-talented musical prodigy from just down the road in nearby Kingsport, Tennessee.

Grace and her equally talented sister Chelsea have been making great music and enjoying sponsorship deals with various music-related companies for years.

By the time she was 13, Grace had already earned a lucrative sponsorship deal with Taylor Guitars via which she would demo their various instruments on video.

Today’s video features one of those sponsorship videos. Watch and enjoy as Grace plays “Luttrell”, an instrumental masterpiece written by guitar legend Tommy Emmanuel.  [Read more…]

Video: Watch this kid burn up the ivories on a piano in Costco

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As a music lover I really enjoy watching someone spontaneously start to play an instrument in a place where I’m not expecting to see it.

And it’s even better when the surprise musician is an extremely talented child.

Lots of public places have a piano available for passers-by to play, but who would have thought you’d ever see something like this at Costco?

Watch, and enjoy…  [Read more…]

Video: Scammer wishes he had never messed with this 73 year old grandma

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Regular readers of my blogs know how much I detest scammers, so it should come as no surprise that I love it when a scammer gets caught in the act.

The Internet has made scamming a lot easier and much safer for today’s scammers, resulting in the vast majority of scams being perpetrated online in recent years.

However, there are still plenty of phone scams being carried out as well.  [Read more…]

Can you really buy these things at Amazon? Why yes, you can.

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Note: The links in this post are affiliate links.

As you probably know, Amazon is the world’s largest online retailer. And as you might imagine, they sell just about everything.

But still, I’m often surprised by some of the items I run across when I’m browsing Amazon’s offerings.

Here’s just a small sample of some of things I recently discovered while looking around on there… [Read more…]

Did you know you can use your leaf blower as a snow blower?

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Do you live in an area that gets lots of snow during the winter?

If so, you probably do a lot of shoveling after every snowfall.

Several places have already received a lot of snow this year and that got me into the mood for watching a few snow videos on YouTube.

I noticed there were several videos showing folks using leaf blowers to remove snow from their sidewalks and driveways.

And guess what? It appears to work pretty well if the conditions are right.

After watching several of these videos I came to the following conclusions: [Read more…]