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Those old Harmony guitars can make a great slide guitar, once the "steel reinforced neck" starts to curl up. I saw a 1940;s model wired with a single coil humbucker that had a wonderfully dirty sound when amplified. The guy painted it flat black, which somehow complemented that dirty sound.

Harmony guitars are Kay guitars, just a different distributor, Sears, I think. Kay made guitars under a number of names.

Well, I went to see it. It was a beautiful looking guitar, all glossy rosewood back and sides, a boatload of inlay, very very pretty. I played it a bit, and it has a nice "feel" - d neck model. Sounded great, if a bit heavy on the low end. Nice ring.
There was a problem, though. There is a gouge in the neck, repaired, but you can still feel it when you play. Doesn't really affect playabilty much, but the repair doesn't match the neck well at all, so while you can't feel it, you can see it and it does affect your playing. I don't know.

Elvis was a PRIME example, so were the Beatles, initially, all the Motown artists, and most of the early rock n rollers. Shame.

I once owned a 74 Mercury Marquis - station wagon. That mutha was the biggest production car ever built. Bought it new, sold it in 1980. They guy I sold it to was a fellow Scout Leader, who always liked the car; called it the Dreadnought. He painted it battleship grey, put some lane lines on it and glued model airplanes on the hood and roof. Made me love the car even more.
Randy

I drive a 2000 Ford Explorer XLT.  Bought it used about a year ago for 1700.00, put about 1200 into it for safety check. 4.2 L V6 runs approximately 25MPG highway and about 22 city. It is clean, comfortable, no rust and runs like a clock.
I used our local Kijiji website to find it.
Kijiji is great, regular folks selling all kinds of stuff. Bought a 12' aluminum boat, 2005 9.9HP Yamaha ourboard and a trailer for just over 1000.00, seperately. They sell boat, motor, trailer combos like this for 1500.00, so I saved quite a bit.
Will never buy a new item again, I swear.
Randy

I can see that...

My daughters played viola and clarinet, sons played trumpet and flute.

I played trumpet and sax in high school. Haven't picked either up in 40 years.

Randy

It ain't a campfire without some guitar music and singing.

Congress suspended the vote.

As long as I could remember, I wanted to be a teacher. I was lucky, and got to teach high school history and a long stint as a creative writing teacher.
While I love the study of history, and still do study it, I am passionate about teaching aspiring writers the craft of writing.
Where writing is concerned, particularly poetry, it is not, repeat not, all inspiration. Inspiration will give you the core idea, but learning the craft of writing poetry and applying that craft takes plenty of work and committment. Composing good poetry is often a case of "sculpting", ie, write out everything you can think of from your "inspiration", then carve away the extranious bits until your word sculpture is complete.
In teaching teenagers how to write, it can often be like the snail on the edge of a razor blade. Teenagers tend to write out simple, raw emotion, but often that is less than poetic. Getting them to move from "my boyfriend/parents/etc are jerks" to poetic language can be painful. The process requires critiqueing, and there's the rub. When you point out the shortcomings of their work as poetry, they often feel it to be a personal attack on their emotions. Getting them to seperate the words on paper from what they feel is a difficult thing to accomplish.
I no longer teach (semi-retired), but I do run semi-monthly poetry sessions at my local library. There, I get people from 13 to 75, with a genuine interest in the craft of writing, with some experience in the process of critiqueing. These folks hardly ever take it personally.
So, I got to do what I wanted to do for many rewarding years.
Now, I write, fish, camp, drink beer, play guitar and occasionally combine all of them...