herbiehancock

  My friend, Michelle who writes the blog, Crow's Feet  has given me the Kreativ Blogger award.  This is what I have to say about that.  Thank you, Michelle.  It was very kind of you to think of me.  According to the rules of the award, I am to now write seven things that my readers may find of interest about me.  I'm going to bend that rule a little bit.  You know me.  I'm such a rebel.  I wanted to share seven things that made me smile recently, so hopefully they will be of interest to you as well. 1.  My son's girlfriend was over visiting here on Saturday.  I was in the kitchen fixing dinner when she called me into the living room where she was.  She had a laptop computer open in front of her.   "Look at this," she said.  She motioned toward the computer screen in front of her indicating that I should look at it.  "He's throwing snowballs at me!" The "he" she was referring to me was my son.  H...

I hope you all will forgive me for beaming with pride, but I wanted to share with you some of the music I heard this past Sunday. My younger son played his upright bass in the local high school orchestra concert that day, and I was in attendance. His girlfriend, also in the orchestra, played the violin. They were in their formal wear for the performance as you can see. I made videos of three of the four songs they played during the concert. My son is in the back on the right hand side of the stage playing the upright bass. You can see just the top of his head occasionally above one of the music stands. His girlfriend is seated, playing the violin, just to the left of the director in the middle of the stage if you want to watch for her when I turn the camera over in that direction. The quality of these videos, taken with our inexpensive camera by me---the one with NO camera skills, is poor at best. I think I managed, unknowingly, to cut off the beginning of one of these songs a...