So, we have a favourite night-time radio show...In fact, we really don't feel like our night is "complete" until we've listened to it. It's called "The Road Home". Let me give you the run-down; it's featured on the CKUA Radio Network, Monday through Thursday night, 9:30 to 10:30 (MST), and is hosted by Bob Chelmick, who broadcasts from an off-the-grid solar powered cabin about an hour outside of Edmonton. I'll quote from "The Road Home" page on CKUA's website:
"The Road Home offers a quiet cabin in the woods for listeners to enjoy, a place of refuge and discovery, rife with images that move the mind and the heart through readings, songs and personal ruminations on the country life. Host Bob Chelmick offers poetry, song and reflections on his world of dogs, horses, birds and other wide subjects for a gentle adventure on the road we all share.
The Road Home is inspired from moment to moment and from season to season by the world outside Bob's cabin windows. For Bob, perhaps the best thing about living in the quiet woods, and depending on the forest for heat, the sun for power, and the aquifers for water, is the close connectedness with the natural world. Balance is easier to come by in a natural setting, away from the city.
What goes on around Bob, as mundane as it might seem sometimes, provides all sorts of odd, humourous, even provocative points to talk about. Inside the cabin, books of verse are rich sources of inspiration, elevation, excitation."
A really great program. Bob Chelmick may have the most soothing voice in the world, and I can get behind anyone who has chosen to live in the woods, and off the grid.
ANYWAYS...back to the post title...Bob let his viewers know that he'd give a virtual nickel to the first person to spy the first Robin of Spring. And guess who claimed her virtual nickel AND whose letter was read on the air?
I'm the Teagan B in question!
I'm sure this is not nearly as exciting to any of you as it was to us. Shawn may even have been more excited than I was!
So, you know, turn off your TV for an hour, and tune in to "The Road Home". Listener-supported radio is awesome!
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4 comments:
Wow. You are such a nerd. Good work though. I'd be excited too
That sounds awesome! I'm gonna try to listen online.
Steve, I've never made any claims otherwise. Besides, being cool is for 14 year olds with too much eyeliner.
Johanna, it's really awesome (and yes, nerdy!)...the music CAN be hit or miss, but Bob is totally awesome to listen to! If you can catch it, give it a listen! CKUA is doing their fundraising drive right now, though, so he probably won't be back on the air for another week now...
I am sure this makes me a looser, but I never thought to listen online. Radio means radio to this traditional gal. I will have to join the 2000's I suppose.
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