Coffee conspiracy

Seen in local coffee place ...


They're after me!!

Concert weekend

Last weekend, the music group I play in had back-to-back concerts on Saturday night and Sunday afternoon. The program's theme was a variety show in the spirit of The Ed Sullivan Show (I had to look up who he was, too).

Our emcee welcomes the audience and chats about the show.

Notice how I'm sitting kinda forward there. Well there was a traffic jam on the drive up, so I got there with enough time to warm up with the group, but not to use the bathroom before the concert started. Let me tell you, that really improves your posture. I sat ram-rod straight the entire first half.

See what I mean?

We had guest performers too.


Some of our percussionists played a glock feature ...


We also had a few vocal numbers, and these singers have worked with us before. They're great!

This guy in particular likes to joke around with our director.

Lots of fun.

I felt like I had plenty to do just playing my part. Well, except for one number where we had to clap for awhile. It's probably a little funny to watch -- this concert band playing some Elvis medley, and half the band puts their instruments on their laps and starts clapping.

Of course it can lead to awkward moments when you have to grab your instrument in a hurry and resume playing!

Woo hoo, like that! Yow!

The audience had a good time, and overall we played pretty well. But it was a long program and we were kinda whipped by the end of the weekend. My face was sore, too!

Good times.

Underground conversation

"Psst. Hey."
"Wake up!"

" Huh? What?!"

"It's that time! Look alive!"
"You know what you have to do!"

" Why do *I* always hafta go first?"

"Oh, not the drama queen bit again!"
"We go through this every year!"

"It's COLD up there!"

"But it's not AS cold as it was last month! ... most of the time, anyway."
"Look, you want to greet spring, don't you?"

"... No ... not really actually."

"Come now, we've had some warm days!"
"Above 45 degrees even!"

"It snowed last week."

"Ah, well ..."

"It's supposed to snow tonight."

"Well ... look, someone has to go first."
"And that someone has to be you."
"Look, we'll be right behind you ... "
"Exactly! We're just giving you a ... two week head start!"

"Enough for a couple more snowstorms and a week's worth of frost."

"All right, that's enough bellyaching. Don't make us push you up!"
"We'll give you to the count of three."
"One ... two ... "

"All right, all right ... FINE!"


"Just because I'm up here doesn't mean I hafta unclench my petals. Which by the way have ice on them courtesy of last night."

Happy semi-spring.

You wouldn't think one hour would matter

I won't tell you what time I woke up this morning, but it definitely didn't feel like I'd had a nice lie-in. Urrrrgh ...

Kona coffee helped.