"The beat goes on..."

So the last few months have been full of buying a sailboat that needs restoring (see Our Lake Life blog), conferences, kids going back to school, birthdays, lawn work, heavy work schedules, coding seminar (See CSS for Print Designers) and learning programming, halloween, school events, sick cats,  and now election day.

In between all of this, Corey started taking piano and voice lessons with Phoebe up at Carolyn's Keyboard Corner. She's a pretty neat kid too. I immediately thought about Corey when I met her (phoebe) the first time. I thought she was a younger female teacher that Corey could better relate too. I was right. Corey is really excelling and practicing regularly. Her vocal range is already improving and she really seems to be liking the piano lessons too. I don't think she thought she would as much as she is. :)

I'm still taking accordion lessons with Bob Boyd although I've missed several lessons due to the schedule. I'll be going today. Only one more song in the 1st palmer-hughes book to go. Not sure if I'm going to continue or take a break for the winter and work on piano or something else. We'll see.

But since I started playing in 1984, this is the way it's been: stop and start, ebb and flow. I've come to see it as absolutely normal behavior, if not necessary. Otherwise I might burn out.

I enjoy playing so many instruments, sometimes I wish i'd just focus on one but they are so much fun!

I'll try to post when I can. It's been a while since any gear intrigued me. ALTHOUGH...

I got the latest Premier Guitar magazine that featured this new analog delay from Way Huge that caught my eye:

I've added it to my xmas gift list. I think it sounds great and like a lot of fun!