A String Serenade

I guess I'm just not satisfied with settling for only singing. We had our practice tonight with combined choirs at Redeemer Lutheran (Zion, Trinity, and Redeemer). We will be singing at next Wednesday's "pre-Thanksgiving" service (two songs). Redeemer also invited us to dinner beforehand at 5:30, so we'll be having "soup and pie." Ruth Stenson, the choir director at Redeemer, said she has only baked one pie in her entire life, but signed herself up to make two pies for next week. In the spirit of not really knowing what you're doing before volunteering for something, I noticed there was a group of kids with string instruments about to practice under Ruth's direction for the prelude and offertory music at next week's service. I asked Ruth out of curiosity if she knew of a community string group around here and she said there really weren't any in town, but did invite me to play my cello with the kids. Apparently Brianna Drevlow, Joe's daughter, is the only cello at this point. Pretty much all the kids are middle school age from Franklin and there's about 5 or 6 pieces they'll be performing, so I figured, "What the heck?" I'll have to practice a little bit over the coming week, but I shouldn't have a problem with the level of music I'll be reading, knock on wood. Brianna was rather pleased to see she won't be all by herself next week in the cello section.

I'm sure I've told most of you out there it's freezing over here this week. It's currently 6 degrees outside with a feels like of minus 5 degrees. Andrew ran to the convenience store this morning just three blocks away and when he got back, the lenses of his glasses had completely frosted over, so he couldn't see. When we climbed in the weasel (our car) to head to church tonight, the INSIDE of the windows were frozen. Here I was scraping the outside and there wasn't a single speck of ice on the outside. Andrew's valve stems on his Honda were completely frozen, so he couldn't check the air pressure tonight. I think he'll be bringing the hair drier out there tomorrow to thaw them out.

I think the guy across the street was more intelligent than I thought, putting his Christmas lights up outside the day after Halloween before the winter storm moved in with all the snow. Now it'll be a bit more tricky on my side getting it done as I doubt the snow will be leaving until Spring now with these temperatures. I also have to work on rigging a better harness this year for Duchess to pull the boys down the alley/sidewalk in their sled.

I have to wish you a Happy Birthday one more time, Jennifer. Hopefully you had a great day of celebration with your family over there. It seems like just yesterday you and I were making that sign for Mom's 37th... Here's to many more years! :o)