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LexaDawn

Rings on her fingers and bells on her shoes...

About Me

I'm a Mother & Wife to two beautiful blondes! Also, Mommy to Al & Betty (my two red heelers.) In a folk/country duo, Elexa Dawson & the Hitchhiker (Josh Thuma)... see us at myspace.com/pickyhitchhiker or www.elexadawson.com
I love music, my favorite genre is bluegrass. I met my husband at Winfield! Looking forward to next year, moving up in the world with our vintage airstream :-)
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My Interests

Music and all things because of it, Prayer, Sewing, History and Progress (or lack thereof) in Christianity, Gardening, Homesteading, Sustainable Living, Improvement of Education, Conservation and the 3 R's, Alternative Fuels, Improvement of the State of Humankind, Festivals, Sharing, Bartering, Reaping what you Sow, Watching others reap what they've sown, Friends, Food, Smoke.

I'd like to meet:

Yeshua the Christ, Jerry Garcia, Carlos Santana

"There is a fountain, that was not made by the hands of men." Jerry Garcia
"No one who drinks the water I give will ever be thirsty again. The water I give is like a flowing fountain that gives eternal life." Yeshua

Music:

Split Lip Rayfield, Fast Food Junkies, Yonder Mountain String Band, Little Country Giants, Tall Cotton String Band, PoDank String Band, Asylum Street Spankers, Kirk Rundstrom Band, My Tea Kynd, Randy Crouch & Flying Horse, Jason Boland & the Stragglers, Brandon Jenkins, Myshkin, Laura Freeman, Counting Crows, Wildwood, Redbud Revival, Lucinda Williams, Kasey Chambers, Gillian Welch, Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, Waylon Jennings, Old Crow Medicine Show, Handsome Molly, Johnny Cash, Johnny Palmer, Truckstop Honeymoon, Mike West, Handsome Molly... and ALL my friends in the biz ;-)

Movies:

The Point, The Big Lebowski, Super Troopers, Wall Street, Road Trip, Napoleon Dynamite, Urban Cowboy, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures, Ace Ventura, Triplettes of Bellville, Sahara...

Television:

Don't have one... Alison said to shoot it, so I did :-) But I do watch seasons of Reno 911 & Aqua Teen pretty religiously.

Books:

Read recently: God In The Dock, Wicked, Son of a Witch, other CS Lewis stuff...

Heroes:

My Mom, My Granny and My Nana, Granny Birdsong, Granny Irene... you see where I'm going with this...
Oh, and Loretta Lynn...

My Blog

Woah, baby

Janis Joplin just made me cry.  
Posted by LexaDawn on Sun, 14 Jan 2007 03:27:00 PST

Busy week...

I really hope everyone had a great Christmas, and I hope we all remembered whose birth we were celebrating!  It was a great one for me.  Got to meet my new baby nephew Joe and another new ba...
Posted by LexaDawn on Tue, 02 Jan 2007 10:28:00 PST

BuffaloFitz - January 5th

Just got word today, my boys from Oklahoma are coming up for a show January 5th at our own Branding Iron!  I'm sure there'll be a Bates Grove after party, so be sure and come check these guys out...
Posted by LexaDawn on Fri, 15 Dec 2006 12:46:00 PST

Send me your favorite small-town Kansas Bar!

So we were hangin' out last night a plan began to hatch: We want to hit every small-town bar we can in Kansas. You know the bar we're talking about... The only one in town! We love the Branding Iron a...
Posted by LexaDawn on Mon, 04 Dec 2006 02:38:00 PST

Kansas Happenings

Amy Codney, the coolest chick in Kansas has done herself in putting together a comprehensive schedule of cool stuff happening in Kansas. Check it out at http://www.myspace.com/littlecod  ...
Posted by LexaDawn on Sat, 18 Nov 2006 03:14:00 PST

WANTED: Pics of Amy's Party

For reasons I'd rather not mention in cyber-publicK, I don't have many memories of Amy's Birthday party and it was at my house.  Since it was, in fact, the sickest party in Chase County, and, qui...
Posted by LexaDawn on Sat, 18 Nov 2006 01:21:00 PST

cobwebs...

So...  totally uninspired today, slept most of it but I'm feeling better now.  For some reason I have major hip pain.  Yes, I said HIP PAIN.  I'm 27, okay, what the heck?  I t...
Posted by LexaDawn on Wed, 25 Oct 2006 01:58:00 PST

Big Fish, Little Pond...

So I was in the paper...  ALL OVER it actually.  Feels wierd but satisfying to be the local musician/community activist.  Fred's walk made front page news, which is the most import...
Posted by LexaDawn on Wed, 27 Sep 2006 02:38:00 PST

Walk A Mile In Fred's Shoes

This Sunday protesters and concerned citizens will be "walking a mile in Fred's shoes" at 2pm.  The walk will begin at the caboose in Strong City and go to Bates Grove Park in Cottonwood Falls.&n...
Posted by LexaDawn on Fri, 22 Sep 2006 11:59:00 PST

Saturday in Cottonwood Falls

PLEASE come out and listen Saturday at 6:30 in Downtown Cottonwood Falls out on the bricks of Broadway!  Bring your lawnchairs!   Later that night the Junkies are playing in Peabody, so we'l...
Posted by LexaDawn on Wed, 19 Jul 2006 12:28:00 PST