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Tonight's my last night in Georgia. I'm in Macon for one last night at Nanette's. Tomorrow we will meet my sister Julie's family at the Dekalb Farmer's Market so she can give me the stuff I left at her house, then Nan and I will drive to B'Ham where I'll meet with Mat and he'll have to drive me to Madison. That turned out more difficult to arrange than I thought. Maybe I'll catch up what's happened, and why I'm in Atlanta car-less later. But it's been great. I've had fun. I've gotten back in touch with my best friend, Nanette, and we did some Cherry Blossom Festival stuff. I've gotten to know my sister Julie better, and to play with my nephews John John and Daniel, and niece Jessica. Not to mention getting to go to the ASTA National Conference (ASTA=American String Teacher's Association) and watch Thomas and Consort de l'Ancienne play in a seminar T's teacher gave on teaching using Early (as in 11th - 16th Century) Music. Of course we got to dress in our costumes. Thomas is on the far left. His teacher is on the far right. You can't see everyone.

Where the heck have I been? It's been busy busy busy.

The Alabama Strings Teachers Asooc. Honors Strings Orchestra Festival took up all one weekend, the 1st-3rd. It was fairly incredible. Young people from all over Alabama came. They saw the music for the concert Thursday night for the first time, for 2 hours. Then they spent all day Friday and Saturday morning rehearsing, studying, and playing music games. Then on Saturday afternoon, they performed. I was just bowled over. I could not even emagine that they could sound that good. I'm not sure now what all those other instruments tey have in an orchestra are for. Just kidding, of course, but just with Violins (playing two different parts), violas, cellos, and a bass you get an incredibly beautiful, complex sound. I have an album of photos, at:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2005068&l=f5015&id=1006350292

Then the next weekend was the field trip to the TN Aquarium that I wrote about. My semi-daughter Rhiannon took all the lovely pictures for me. There are a lot of beautiful photos of jellies and such. Rhiannon retains the copyright on everything, however. While she is fine with sharing them online she would like them not to be reposted or linked to or sold. Thanks.

http://www.facebook.com/al bum.php?aid=70634&l=61960&id=639455257

http://www.facebook.com/al bum.php?aid=70723&l=ee89f&id=639455257

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=71017&l=79a03&id=639455257

And of course, this was all worked into the usual busy schedule of school, and a little socializing, and cooking (well, microwaving), and all that stuff you have to keep up on.

Then the Thanksgiving madness we all get. Thanksgiving is the one time of the year when people travel hundreds of miles to see people they haven't seen for a year and realize that once a year is way too often. No, actually I had a good time. Most everybody was there, and of course the food is always good. Thomas played violin for everyone. Mat interviewed his Grandpa for two and a half hours.

I'm so over-scheduled I don't even know what I'm up to these days. I remember lots of driving at Thanksgiving, a concert, a couple of field trips, lots of rehearsals of medieval music, lots of astronomy lectures, some sword play, leather mugs, japanese lessons. I'm beginning to think my whole life is about driving Thomas around.

Speaking of the ASTA Honors Strings Festival and Concert, check out the pictures:

My Boy at ASTA

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