Easter Evening ( #AtoZChallenge )

 

      Easter evening has arrived after a very nice peaceful restful day.  My wife and I started our day with church during which I played my violin with the church youth band.  We played two songs and everyone seemed to enjoy it.  I thought it was a bit rough, but we're just a bunch of kids after all.  I guess at seventy-five I have the right to claim being a kid,  Right?  And the actual church youth group is rather small so every musician helps.

     It had been many years since I had played my violin to any real extent and it's felt good of late to be playing again. Someone pointed out that our small church has an unusually large number of violin players.  Well, there's three of us, but that is half the size of our band.  Looks like we're on our way to becoming an orchestra.

       After church I was craving some ham as was my family's tradition to have such a dinner when I was growing up.  So we stopped at Subway and I got a ham sandwich for my Easter dinner.  Then I took a nap after which my wife and I watched a few things on TV.  We closed our evening of television viewing watching the bio movie about Leonard Cohen and his song "Hallelujah" which seemed appropriate for Easter evening.  

       Life is good because right now it is peaceful.  Hope you are experiencing the same.

Doing What I'm Doing ( #AtoZChallenge )

 

        Doing things--lots of various things--is what I've been doing of late.  Things piled up all of a sudden once February arrived.   And I had thought I'd be getting A to Z posts out with no problem.  I even started laying the posts out.  And then things happened. And then more things.  That's how it usually seems to go for me.  How about you?

        I've been engaged in a lot of spring cleaning the past few days.  Needed to be done, but I didn't expect the doing to become such a pressing issue.  And then there's...

       Done for today.  I'm at least managing so far--the household stuff and the blog posts.  We'll see how this upcoming week goes.  

Catalina California ( #AtoZChallenge )

 

        California really is a great state once you get past the bad government, some wacky people, and other stuff we shouldn't have to deal with but we do.  Otherwise, the state has a lot to offer.  There's so much I haven't seen yet though I have seen a lot of things I've missed in movies or TV shows.  Catalina is one example.  It's an island about 26 miles or so off the coast near Los Angeles.  On a good day you can see it from various places like the Getty Museum.  

       I'll be going there soon for an overnight visit. I'm not sure about the boat trip but I've enjoyed things like the ferry from Maryland (or wherever it is) to Cape May NJ.  That was a pretty big boat and I felt very secure.  The ferry to Catalina doesn't carry vehicles so I'm sure it's smaller.  I'm not that fond of being on the water.  I'd make a lousy sailor.

        And count me out of any plans for a cruise. I'm quite content at home thank you.