This past Saturday I was again playing a music job - this time as part of a dance band playing for an English Country Dance workshop and Ball. These workshops have a "big name" person in English Country Dance who will teach dances during the day, then call dances for a dance (a "Ball") at night. This one featured Colin Hume, an Englishman who has ( Read more... )

This is a very depressing weekend. Yesterday, today and tomorrow I am at my parent's house, trying to clean up some of the accumulation of 35 years of stuff. While my parents were not packrats, they do have an amazing amount of things. Some things are treasures: old photos, unit patches and gear from my father's years in the Navy, old photos of ( Read more... )

Well, Ysabela has been bugging me to post to my Live Journal - so here, I have posted ( Read more... )