James got me afour track for my birthday! woohoo! Now all my feeble musical skills can be put together. Look for the release of my first single, Twinkle Twinkle, with a b-side of Go Tell Aunt Rhody.

I am only going to take piano every other week now. I just don't get to practice enough, and maybe this will help. I also stopped a couple of other things I have to do every week. I'm looking for a more relaxed life. And time to do laundry.

I spent about an hour in the garden just now. Everything went well until I ran into a colony of red ants while thinning the lettuce. Ouch. I had to come inside and take a bath. I got the little garden around the cherry tree planted. The most pronounced part of that garden will be the red geraniums I planted. They make me think of Marnie. I planted some swiss chard in the vegetable garden and cleared the little area where I put pumpkins and squash last year. That part needs some more work before I plant anything. I am thinking of putting the same thing there this year. Maybe I will actually get a pumpkin. Last year I got a bunch of zucchini, a couple summer squash, and a big pumpkin vine. The thing I like about that garden is that I move all the sunflowers that just sprout in the vegetables over in a line between the garden and the compost pile.

I got a book of blues to work on at piano. I am looking forward to that. The piece I am working on for violin is ajig. I really want to write the fingering in, but I know it will be better in the long run if I don't.