Do You Play?

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I couldn't resist!

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Good Morning All;
It has been rainy since yesterday- Building up those water tables!  More on the way today too!
A big "hooray" for the farmers around here- Their crops needing this rain so badly!

The trees need it too- Some more than others.

About 8 years ago, I found this itty bitty willow tree; just a sapling, no taller than my forearm is long...
I planted it at the bottom of the hill.  It has thrived in it's new home. (And only that first year did I ever carry water to it).

I remember being happily surprised when it lived through that first nasty winter.
As I walked a few days ago, I found it hard to believe that such a tiny thing could be like this in such a short amount of time.
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As it makes the old garage almost shrink by comparison!

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Even from the top of the hill,
filling out the back yard so nicely!

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Tired of being cooped up, I went for a little ride on Wednesday afternoon. To the store for a bit of parmesan peppercorn salad. Mmmmmmmmm.  Then stopped at Kelli's on the way home.
She was just beginning to do her evening chores. And even brought me a chair! (Evening chores being a spectator sport now). hehehe


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The horses allowed to graze for a while, while she prepared their grain.
My apologies that I wasn't sat enough to really get good shots of them
 once she called them up front!

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While they ate, I took this picture-
Between the pasture and the pond- & such a pretty color...
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I don't know what kind of plant it is either...
Know that this was abut 30 yards away from me-
About 5+ feet tall
Do any of you know what it is?

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* And now the question of the day...
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.Do you play an instrument?

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Being that Punk is 3 (and a half), Casey thought it high time that she would teach the pup how to enjoy her music...
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First, to point out "Middle C"
♫ "Let's start at the very beginning..." ♫

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And then to show her how it's done...

Although I don't believe that Vanessa Carlton's "Ordinary Day"
was the most simplistic choice for a beginner...
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That dog sure tried to keep up!
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After taking piano lessons from the time I was 4, I joined band in 8th grade. (One of my original piano teachers was even Miss Wisconsin)!

I played B~flat clarinet. Not badly- Not good either.

So I stuck to Chorus, Music Theory, and singing. Easy credits for me, especially since I loved music!
I $aved my allowance, (not hard to do, I was never into frilly teeny~bopper things). Thi$ money went for my guitar.
Self taught. I didn't play well, but at least I could carry a tune (mostly). And had such fun with it too.

There had been a talent show at school one evening- One of the guys played his own guitar and sang "House of The Rising Sun" so well that it brought tears to my eyes.

That was the first song I taught myself to play.
I am still partial to it, and even if I am in the middle of uptown traffic, my Sirius gets turned way up to enjoy it should it ever come on...

• There were fun songs, "Me and You, and a Dog named Boo".
  
  
• Timely songs, "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" (from the height of the Vietnam War).
  
  
• Songs that were supposed to make you think... "Teach Your Children Well." "The Night The Lights Went Out in Georgia" "Harper Valley PTA"
  
  
• And there were always songs like "Black Water" "Morning Has Broken" to fall back on to harmonize, etc.
  
  
  Mind you, those are just to name a very few...
  

I wonder how our parents ever put up with us?!? (At least I didn't choose percussion)!



So... What's your pleasure?

Do you play? Sing? Enjoy?  ♫    Are you singing yet? 

Have a "wunnaful" weekend!

XOXO
Me