Grey skies and damp earth are greeting The Miami Valley this Friday morning.

I only have my online classes to teach, starting at 11 AM, and that is all the heavy work on my docket. My goal for this evening is to make it next door to listen to some high school choirs in the OMEA (Ohio Music Educators Association) large group contest. These choirs won’t compete against one another but receive independent attention and a grade.

Yesterday, my blog site received an email on a post about my third great-grandfather, Andrew Taylor Greenlee. The lady reported she was now living in the home built by Andrew Greenlee’s parents, William and Harriet Sayre Greenlee who migrated from the Kanawha River Valley, Virginia, now Charleston, West Virginia, in the 1850s to Boone Township, Madison County, Indiana. William and Harriet’s son, Andrew Taylor Greenlee, and his wife, Prudence Ball Greenlee, inherited the farm and raised their family there for many years. Through some brief correspondence, I learned that Andrea knows quite a few of my family members, some of whom are descendants.

Despite the outer appearance of this day, it’s still an opportunity to make it a great day!