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Some of you may remember that my son's string quintet was scheduled to perform at the Christmas Open House at the library where I work.  Last night was the open house, and it went very well.  In the children's department, there were crafts, and cookies and punch, and visits with Santa, of course.  In the adult department there was Christmas music performed by the quintet.  The kids did a wonderful job and were well received.  My son is the one standing in the back to the left playing the upright bass. I recorded a couple of the songs if you'd like to listen.  They are both fairly short.

Not too long ago, I showed you this picture of a pretty tree in my neighbor's yard. Well, now that tree looks like this, and after all the high winds we have had this week, my back yard just to the right of this tree looks like this. My front yard, not to be outdone, looks like this. Can you see all of those leaves on the ground?  It looks like I'm going to be spending the weekend with a rake in my hand. While I am out there raking, I've left a couple of things here in this post for you to do. First, if you'd like to, you can listen to my son's string quintet play the song, "Michelle."  He's the one standing  up in the back on the right playing the double bass. Second, you can look at a pretty drop leaf table or two, or check out what is for sale at any of the stores under the CSN name to see if there is anything there that you might like to buy with a $55.00 gift certificate.   Why am I suggesting you do this?  I am suggesting it because the...

Today was a day of making joyful noises of all sorts. This morning, my husband went to church early to practice with the church orchestra. The church orchestra was to play for this morning's service. He plays the bass guitar with them when he is needed. He came back when practice was over, and I asked him how it went. He just shook his head and said, "Not good." I didn't think too much of it. I assumed that someone must have hit a wrong note here or there, but I didn't question him about it otherwise. I was sure everything would be fine. So the church orchestra played for the 10:30 service. They played three songs. The first two songs went fine. They played them very well, as a matter of fact. I thought, "Well, whatever happened at the earlier practice that caused a problem, it must have been ironed out before the service." Then...they played their third song. The third song they played was "How Great Thou Art," Well, it was supposed ...

You may remember that a while back my fifteen-year-old son was hoping to form a string quintet along with his girlfriend and some of their friends. That quintet has been formed, and they have been practicing the last few weeks. This morning, they had their debut performance when they played two pieces for our church service. My son is the one standing and playing the upright bass, and his girlfriend (although not much of her is visible) is playing the viola and is sitting to the left of him. I think they did a great job, and I am quite proud of them. The first song they performed was "Shepherd's Dance" by Schubert. The second song they played was "You Raise Me Up." The music for this piece was written by Rolf Lovland and the lyrics were written by Brendan Graham.