It's just been a week ( Read more... )

A friend sent these to me ( Read more... )

At last night's Winter Concert for Ponderosa, the Chorale sang a song called (I think) "Prayer before Sleeping." The introduction said that it was from the Torah, "a sacred Hebrew Text written in Babylon between the 3rd and 8th C ( Read more... )

Today was the concert for the second week of Duncan's camp. (This is the last week; Monday he starts Marching Band Boot Camp, where he tries to teach the band to march in straight lines and without bobbing their heads ( Read more... )

I forgot to say last night: Elton's edits of the live performances that he's putting up on the memorial page for Leigh Ann (http://annwn.nithaus.org/ ), if you want to go straight there, are wonderful. They were playing in the house yesterday while we worked, and I listened to part of the ( Read more... )

Today was the last day of Duncan's first week of band camp, and he had a great time. The concert was great. The play, written by the kids, was actually really good -- lots of good singing and dancing. I've got pictures of some of the artwork (plus some crowd shots) that I'll put up later this week ( Read more... )

Duncan leaves tomorrow for Drum Major Master Class. It feels funny not to be the one taking him -- L will do the transport. I pick him up on Sunday, and the fun begins ( Read more... )

The field show that had been chosen for Duncan was kinda blah, but OK. After trying it out (playing it) for a bunch of the band members, they expressed that they really, really disliked it. He figured that with a new Band Director and a show that most of the band disliked, they might have real problems keeping up their quality next year ( Read more... )

I have Karaoke on my TV Cable now!!!!
( biker karaoke??? )

In a conversation about curling, gunnora posted this link:
Swedish metal band Hammerfall doing a video with the Swedish Women's Olympic Curling Team

This is just an amazing combination. ;-)