Thu, 13 Apr 2006
I’ve been MIA for a while due to the move. But we’re here in Northern California for good! At last I’m living in my little home in the mountains. I taught music for a week, but now we’re on spring break. So far I have 7 students, 5 guitars and 2 mandolins. I have to say that I’m happy and impressed with every one of these students. We’re having a lot of fun and I’m even making a little bit of money. I found a set of trails that starts about 1 mile from our house so I’ve been hiking a bit already. In fact, I’ve been a lot more active since we’ve moved here than I normally have. I hope this will help me drop some of the 50 to 60 pounds that I’ve packed on in the past 5 years or so. It has been raining almost non-stop since we’ve been here. On the news they said that we’ve had about 480% of the normal rain for this month. But today it’s warm and sunny so we’ll probably be out hiking again. My teaching studio at the house is nearly finished. In fact, I really just have to pick up various tools and empty boxes and I’m done. I have all my books there as well as my computer, my instruments and amps. I mounted 4 instrument hangers on the wall to keep a couple guitars a banjo and a mandolin handy. All in all it’s a pretty comfortable space. Thank goodness we have a wood stove in the front room. It’s been a bit colder than Southern California up here and the stove keeps us nice and toasty. So things are going well. I find myself spontainiously smiling for no reason at all. Every night before bedtime I go out on the porch and look at the night sky and listen to the frogs in the distance and realize how lucky and happy I am. It’s a good life.This story is from the
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