Seattle Rain

I am sitting here sipping a coke ( I gave up alcohol for lent) listening to Dan's latest band Seattle Rain. Kind of a 90's grunge/heavy rock band. Once again he is in a band that is pretty good. I am thinking back to all of the bands he has been in and all of the genres he has covered over his  career. All of the garage bands practicing wherever someone had a spare room. I am sure I only know of a portion of the actual number. He has always surrounded himself with very talented musicians, but was usually missing one or two ingredients, usually a good singer. Either that or life would get in the way. Being in bands is fun but you got to pay the bills. It's a shame Dan couldn't do this full time because he enjoys it so much. One of the last bands he was in turned out to be pretty successful regionally but he had to leave to go to jewelers school in search of another passion.  Reflecting back to being a roadie for him in high school jazz band to now there has been a lot of music and premieres of new bands like tonight, but he really enjoys it and you gotta love never giving up the dream. 

She Blinded Me.....

William's science project for fourth grade. The idea for the project came from one of his teachers and fell upon me to try to assemble. I actually enjoy trying to make this stuff work once I get into it. We got the material needed for the project at lowes but the majority of the material came from around the garage. Man, I really need to clean the garage. The chime was from some old chimes that we got from Dan. He was going to get rid of them and I thought maybe donate them to school or something. The doorbell I just happened to have laying around after replacing ours this summer. The fun part is when I get started on something I tend to overdo it a little. I now have designed and assembled 5 different plungers to get the proper chime soundout of the chime. Like usual i tweek until I run out of time and I am sitting here with it due tomorrow so I am done tweeking because I have to be. This is the first of many science projects for the boys 

OMG ITS BEEN 3 YEARS

Sad but true it's been three years since I posted in my blog. I blame Facebook for getting me out the habit and being a lot quicker to post stuff. Also getting time on the laptop to post can be a challenge. But now I have Blogger installed on my iPod so I should be able to post more. We will see how it goes. Reading old posts is really fun and brings back allot of good memories.