I loved my Thursday!

I was at Schuster Center from 8:15 AM to 11:45 AM and it was a super busy event. I took No. 2 to the edge of The Oregon District to lunch at the China buffet. By 1:45 PM, I had returned home and got to see the pooches.

While blowing leaves in the front yard, Susan Klenk, out on her bike, stopped for a chat. This morning we were greeted with heavy rain, so I won’t be attending to leave blowing this afternoon.

My Thursday afternoon and evening were spent with documentaries. As I was watching a bit of news, for once, I heard more details of the Lewiston, Maine shooting. On Facebook, I had seen a post that included an outline of Maine with a star in the center part of the state and I assumed that was where Lewiston was located. During one interview, my stomach pushed right up to my throat when I heard the gentleman mention the town of Bowdoin, Maine. My cousin’s son is a student at Bowdoin College. I quickly checked their social media accounts and was relieved to know he was safe. I sent an email to his mom and she responded with some details about her son and the students at Bowdoin College which will be on lockdown through the weekend, or until a different outcome to this horrendous scenario.

Today we have rain throughout the morning with a high of 75 degrees. Tomorrow, we begin the gradual slide down through the sixties and into the forties by Monday. It is my fifth week so I will not have private lessons on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday. The return to teaching will be busy with selecting OMEA solo and ensemble music, audition preparations for spring musical auditions, Christmas concert solos, and continued work on vocal pedagogy.

I am contemplating switching my study and bedroom, as I had it the first ten years of living here. In 2013, I moved my bedroom upstairs and shoved my study into my evacuated bedroom which was the larger of the two back rooms on the main floor. Now that my bedroom is downstairs, I would like to have more space which will require a much-needed downsizing of my study. I have scratched out rough ideas for the planning of this operation. I will be able to move most of the items but may call on assistance for a few items to be moved.

Sending out loving thoughts to my friend, Valerie Gugala, and her family, as they bid farewell to Valerie’s mother this weekend. Know you are loved…

And with that, it is time to begin my Friday.

Happy birthday, President Theodore Roosevelt.

Make it a great day!