Blinds installed on Thursday- whooopeeee

Thursday our vertical blinds were installed, they are a warm beige with streaks of white, and they look so perfect with our new paint job. Whoo hoo.

Then off to our flute lesson with Annie, we are having fun being on our own with Annie, Chip's off on a gorgeous cruise to Australia on the Queen Elizabeth doing part of their round the world maiden voyage. And we are working on what we should do if we entertain on our own.

We kind of created some scenarios in words with Annie's help, and then created them on our flutes in music, I didn't know how creative Lary is, but it's so amusing to hear what he comes up with. We created a scenario where we were walking in the desert, saw a hawk flying above us, then spied a wee lizard scurrying along, then the hawk dives, and yum yum, dinner for the hawk.

But then Lary came up with the idea of the eulogy for the lizard, such a laugh, and we tried to recreate it in flute sounds. So creative, challenging and fun too.

We created several scenarios and played them on our flutes, it's interesting because Lary has only 3 flutes, but every one of them co-ordinates with one of mine, so we did that, and then played with Annie's new backing tracks, with flutes, guitar and didge as back up, and us just blowing to accompany that. So neat. Listening and playing along is very interesting, you really need to play very quickly when you hear the backing track, it's very challenging, and exciting to do, matching your music flute playing to the CD track that is playing along.

Annie had her fireplace burning logs, it was that cold. Smelled very good, and was toasty warm too.

Friday we kind of vegged, Lary made a double meat loaf with beef and turkey, and I made a double lemon loaf in a big loaf pan we have. So then we took Annie 1/2 of the lemon loaf, she set it out for the Flute circle folks that were there, it was yummy. She serves coffee at her events, and our lemon loaf seemed to fly off the plate too. Hooray.

Another magic evening with Annie at the helm, it is so interesting what comes out at that evening of flute music together.

Saturday Eileen and Rick friends of ours from L.A. came over to spend the night at Homewood Suites in La Quinta, we went to an art show at a Seniors Centre in La Quinta, then when Eileen phoned us, we went over there, had a beer together on their nice deck, she's a Hilton employee, and brought us a few goodies from Hilton, we saw their nice suite, then we went out to dinner at the Jackalope Restaurant, indoors.

Nice meal, we all ate ribs, and then went back to their place for a bit of a chat, then off home.