Today I worked from home, and Travalon and I took a long lunch so we could take a boat ride out into the marsh. The water was shallow, and it was a bit windy, so I sat in the very front, facing backwards, to balance the boat out more. It was a beautiful day, very sunny, but the colors weren't that spectacular. We saw a lot of gulls and a couple of raptors, maybe a bald eagle and a red-tailed hawk. They were too far away for me to be sure.
After work I took a rosary walk in the neighborhood, where there are a couple of very red maples. In the evening I went to the music club for the Moldy Jam jam. The graduate student didn't come, but I did confirm that she would be welcome, so I'll try again to get her to come. Maybe it's too much music for her - it has been three nights in a row. My fingers are getting a little sore from Mandy, so both last night and tonight I brought the fiddle. Besides, it's easier to play at these top speeds on the fiddle. To my surprise, people said I sounded really good on the fiddle. Not sure why I'd sound any better than the other fiddles there, but maybe people were just surprised to see me play something besides the old round-back mandolin, and maybe they can't really hear me on that... which was kind of the idea. The bassist who quit our band was there, and she was glad to see me bring the fiddle. The violin is my first instrument, but I've been playing the mandolin for so many years that it feels like second nature. Who knows? Maybe with this music club, I'll find some use for the balalaika and the tamburitza and the mountain dulcimer and the rebec and the sitar (if I can ever figure it out...), and I think they do have a ukulele group there. Will there be any call for the electric mandolin? I have played that various places over the years, like with the plugged-in Mideastern band and at the rock jam they used to have at the East Side Club. Anyway, at least the violin and mandolin are both getting some love.
The violin case has a strap I usually just sling over my shoulder, but tonight for some crazy reason I put it over my head as I was leaving. It was too tight, so I pulled it back over my head and just slung the case over my shoulder, as usual. Not sure why I did that... When I got home, Travalon was watching the very end of Game Seven between the Toronto Bluejays and the Seattle Mariners. Seattle has never been to the World Series, but Travalon has a good friend in Toronto who is a huge Jays fan, and just after that, they struck the Mariners out to clinch the series. I went to take off my earrings... and the left one was missing. I assumed I'd knocked it out when pulling that too-tight strap back over my head, so I told Travalon I wanted to go look for it, even though it was late and dark and raining. He offered to drive me back, and I was praying desperately to St. Anthony as we drove there, since this is one of my favorite pairs of earrings, one of the two I always wear. I looked around where I'd thought the problem had happened, and what should I find but my earring!
No comments:
Post a Comment