Our roots are in bluegrass. Both of us have held down and been successsful at a variety of occupations until several years ago when we set out to retire and live off the land. What a mistake! Life goes on, and if you don't go with it you get left behind...

So back to our roots we went. We started our own business doing something we enjoyed. We started a traveling music store with an old yellow van which we took to bluegrass festivals all over the USA for 6 months out of each year. Then we finally decided it might be nice to eat during the other 6 months, too, and that's when we got a "real" job and opened a local store (wonder what that might be.)

Our music store called Blackwell Discount Music Center is located in Seymour, MO and we deal primarily in stringed instruments--good old violins(fiddles), guitars, mandolins, banjos and accesories. When we say discount we do mean discount because my huband believes in "cash flow." To give you an example of our discounts, our guitar strings start at $2.50 per SET!

Now, our problem is that we just can't seem to adjust to being tied down to a "day job", so we still find ourselves traveling a bit devoting much of our time to hobbies and entertainment, while we try to somehow at least look like we're working.