Hard Bonus: Incorporate a Grateful Dead song title or lyric Easy Bonus: Include a fork
Picnic in the Park
It’s Sunday Morning and I don’t know if I technically have a routine, because things keep changing. One thing for sure, is writing my blog entry is always a part of it! Half of the time, I’m walking around like I’m in a Black Muddy River (In The Dark 1987)
Life gets weird, but it’s good to know that there are people who still get together, whether it’s at the fair, a backyard, or whatever. I still like to ensure a good dinner, because after a long day, you just gotta stick a fork in it & enjoy, right 😉
Hard Bonus: Incorporate a lyric from Enya Easy Bonus: Include a missing sock
Balloon kite flying
I don’t know if I’m actually missing something or not, when I say I literally don’t know what it means to Run for the Glory. I feel like I’ve never had the opportunity, and now my energy just won’t allow for it… Too many obstacles.
Enya: The Celts – 1987
It is the Moon, late in the night. It is the Sun. Stay with me forever.
It is Halloween, beginning of the New Year. It’s the dead tree. End of the tribe
Maybe running around barefoot under the Harvest Moon on Halloween cursed me to have missing socks, I don’t know. Where do they go? The Bermuda Triangle? Maybe they’re with the missing people, we’ll never know.
The summer season has come to an end, and here is the new line up:
Thursday, 10/12/23: UW-Parkside Community Band & Wind Ensemble at Parkside at 7pm
Tuesday, 10/24/23: Racine Concert Band with Walden III at Park High at 7pm
Thursday, 11/30/23: UW-Parkside Community Band & Wind Ensemble at Parkside at 7pm
Tuesday, 12/05/23: Racine Concert Band with Park at Park High at 7pm
Tuesday, 02/27/24: Racine Concert Band with Horlick at Horlick at 7pm
Thursday, 03/07/24: UW-Parkside Community Band & Wind Ensemble at Parkside at 7pm
Thursday, 05/02/24: UW-Parkside Community Band & Wind Ensemble at Parkside at 7pm
Thursday, 05/23/24: Racine Concert Band with Case at Case at 7pm
I’ll get about a month off until the 102nd year of free concerts begins the summer of 2024 with RCB.
I must say, I always thought it was strange to see other kids playing with baby dolls & Barbies. As a young child, I liked frogs, even the toy in my great-grandmother’s cedar chest. Even getting older, I liked grasshoppers, dragonflies, frogs, etc. My other favorites were train sets and kites, which were unusual toys for girls. Well, in Japan, kites were universal, but here, not so much.
When I was in 6th grade (still elementary school back then), my school was doing a live musical of Oliver Twist. They encouraged all of the students to take part, even if it was just as an “extra”. I wanted to be an instrumentalist in the pit, so I started off doing arts & crafts while I waited to hear back from them, and never got the chance to play but I did learn how to finger crochet & using an empty sewing thread spool crochet. I wish I would have kept up on the finger crochet, I was actually pretty good at it back then, even though I couldn’t do it the regular way.
My son used to have fire-belly toads, which unfortunately “croaked” (sorry, bad pun) and now he has 4 bullfrog tadpoles, which we’re hoping will make into adulthood. It’ll be cool.
Anyway, gotta get ready for the final summer gig for the Racine Concert Band this evening at the Racine Zoo – 7pm. The fall, winter & spring concert lineup is as follows:
Tuesday, October 24, 2023, with Walden High School at 7pm at 1901 – 12th Street, Racine, WI 53403
Hard Bonus: Include a Loretta Lynn lyric Easy Bonus: Incorporate mountain air
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Growing up in Tokyo, falling asleep to the sound of steady traffic, I had difficulty adjusting when I first came to Wisconsin where my grandparents lived out in the county… The sound of the crickets was practically deafening, and they were 5x bigger than what was in a big city. I had mixed feelings about The Country Charm. No parks, playgrounds, corner stores… but there was a Back 40, a summer garden, fresh air… I guess I appreciate it more now as an adult than when I was an 8-year-old trying to adjust to the cultural differences on multiple levels.
We are upon the last two summer gigs for the Racine Concert Band, performing tonight, 8/6/23 & the finale on 8/13/23 at the Racine Zoo at 7pm. The main gates are closed up, please use the Walton Avenue entrance. While mountain air is crisp & refreshing even on Mt. Fuji, you can enjoy the lake breeze off of our Great Lake Michigan right behind the bandshell.
I’m glad to be able to perform with two different groups. While I never intended on a career in healthcare, I like my coworkers & supervisor at the nursing home where I work. They’re good people.
Loretta Lynn, “The Blues Ain’t Working On Me”, Still Country album 2000
There’s a new expression on my face I ain’t seen in quite a while Must be a smile There’s a new direction in my life and I can’t wait to see Where it takes me I’m no longer lost in the past, Even my troubles just roll off my back
