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  • Otter Space Band Returns

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    With grand excitement, on Friday, August 8, 2025, Linda and Howie (LinaZow) welcomed back to our Garden Salon Austin’s Otter Space Band as it concluded its Earth, Music, and Otter Space Tour of Arizona and New Mexico. The occasion marked the second time in just over a year that these environmental troubadours brought their consciousness-raising lyrics…

  • Jungle Junket West

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    First time in Land of Enchantment: Green Man Joined a Jungle Junket Southwest New Mexico isn’t the only place that enjoys a monsoon. Our wind shift brings rain in July and August. In the tropics, wet weather typically lasts a couple months longer. On Friday, 07-11, 7:09p, our guests journeyed to a wilderness lush with…

  • Green Man Rode the Wind

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    Every season associates with one of the four elements: summer = fire, autumn = Earth, winter = water. Spring, along with freshness and rebirth, matches elemental air. For purposes of celebration, air includes wind, breath, and sky. Along with light potluck food and drink, we invited our guests to bring a favored breezy poem or…

  • Green Man Celebrated Summer and Sun

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    Happened One SaturnDay . . . Green Man requested friends’ presence on June 29, 2024, at 7:09 p.m. to celebrate summer and sun. We heard tunes of the season and provided space for poems, prose, or songs. Always a potluck, guests brought anything tasty to nosh or sip. And they told their friends! It rained,…

  • Green Man Revels R Burns

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    We invited our buds to a Rabbie Burns Birthday Celebration. They joined us (Linda and Howie, aka LinaZow) for an evening of Scottish tradition, literature, and good cheer as we honored the life and works of the legendary poet. It was an unforgivable night filled with music, veggie haggis, and the spirit of Scotland. SaturNight,…

  • Green Man Talked Backward to Venus

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    A celestial phenomenon and word play informed this celebration. On Fri (Viernes), 01-10-25, the planet Venus achieved her greatest eastern elongation. That meant she bedazzled farthest from the Sun as the Evening Star before heading back toward the west. Since the date read the same forward as backward, we also reveled in palindromes: Guests brought…

  • Green Man Celebrates Cecilia

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    With feast and frolic we foisted our fab songs and poems during this conviviality. Cecilia, patroness of musicians and poets, claims Fri, 11-22, as her day—an ideal opportunity to gather for tunes and rhymes and fitting foolery. Potluck began at 7:09p in our cozy enclosure on Chihuahua Hill.

  • Green Man Defied Death

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    All dressed up dead and nowhere to go after Silver City’s Dia de los Muertos celebration? We invited neighbors to head on up that Saturday, November 2, to our cozy Chihuahua Hill enclosure to continue the marigold merriment. Several shared an eerie ditty or raucous rhyme.  Macabre melodies set the tone, and potluck delights kept…

  • Host Celebrates Nativity

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    About 30 guests heard Thea and Danny play the first set, which lasted about an hour. Shelly read a birthday poem. Lina brought out cake with candles, which HR blew out after making a wish. Marilyn added homemade cranberry peach pie to the choices. Other poets read: Kit accompanied by Yaakov, Larry, Josephine, Ann, Merri…

  • Otter Duet Played GMGS

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    Our first house concert after officially moving to Silver City took place on Wednesday, May 15, 2024. The newly dedicated Garden Salon displayed our reworked logo and mascot, Stumpy. Special guests were Virginia Palmer and Bill Oliver, two mainstays of Austin’s Otter Space Band. Their Never Say You’re from Texas Tour had tickled eardrums in…