I love the Internet. I mean, someone who is determined can find valuable information on just about every topic under the sun with a well-worded Google or Bing search. Gardening and homesteading are no exceptions. There are blogs, articles, forums, and yes- YouTube videos – on just about every related topic.
Just this morning, I was watching someone demonstrating how to properly plant fruit trees. One thing nearly every professionally produced YouTube video has in common is music. There’s always a musical introduction and ending, and sometimes there is music in the middle (in this video, for example, we listened to music while the guy dug his hole for the tree…I mean, what is there to say while digging, “And, we insert the spade into the ground, subsequently removing earth, thereby making the hole bigger…” twenty or thirty times)?
After watching a fair number of these earthy, “how to” gardening videos, it occurred to me: Why is the music accompaniment always some folksy, acoustic guitar bit reminiscent of a bunch of hippies sitting around the campfire down on the commune in 1971 (as if smoking weed has anything whatsoever to do with eradicating them)? I mean, how come no one ever composts to “Back in Black” or eradicates slugs to “Bad Company.” Or how about a poultry video to the tune of “Free Bird?” or growing tomatoes with “Sweet Home Alabama?” Just sayin’…