SO WHAT'S NEW?

Well here we are, eight days into 2018 already!  We had several weeks of extreme cold, as did much of the country, but now we are in a much milder and warmer temperature pattern, which is predicted to only last a few days -  but we will enjoy it anyway.

It was so cold here, that I decided not to heat my attic studio, so I shut the lights and heat off and hard as it was, kept my body planted on the main floor of our home.  Now that is warmer, I have returned to my "space" only to discover that I had left everything in complete chaos, since well before my Christmas sales started.   My space is a mess, and I am making my first real project of 2018 to clean and organize my work space so I can work efficiently again.

I have been doing a bit of knitting while I was stranded on the main floor, and I plan to do some more this winter with some new patterns that I acquired over the holidays.

But I have a new project, that I really hope will be successful. I am going to start giving piano and theory lessons.  I interviewed my first student's parent yesterday, and my first student is a 7 yr old boy, who loves music and has been wanting piano lessons for over a year. 

I am excited to start this new venture.  It is something I have wanted to do since we moved here, and I think it will be just as rewarding for me as it will be for the students.  So music has one again taken hold of my life.  There was time when music was the most important thing in my life.  I was singing in choirs, taking voice lessons and doing solo performances, playing in orchestras, and I couldn't seem to get enough music in my life. 

To some extent music has hit me that way again.  I am playing the organ at church, I play at the nursing home, and do music therapy there.  Giving piano lessons is a great next step, and I don't think I am quite done yet.  Next on my mind is trying to form a community choir.  I have heard some of these farm folk sing - they have pure joy coming from their vocal chords - I'd like to help them share that joy with other's. 

But I am getting ahead of myself...

Today I am heading to see the dentist.  I have a wisdom tooth that has gone bad, so I guess we will be making a decision.  I am deathly afraid of dentists - so you know it's bad if I get up the nerve to go.  At this point, I keep telling myself that the pain of having it pulled could not be any greater than the pain of it abscessed - -  yeah, that's not working, I'm still shaking!

So that's my life in a few paragraphs.

If my knees are not shaking too much when I get home, it looks like it would be a perfect sunny warm day to get outside with the camera.  You might see the results here, soon.

So get outside and play in the snow, or go for a walk, or take your camera for a walk.  It's days like this that I really miss having a dog.

Talk to you soon.... stay well...