Friday – last day of Ukulele lessons, last day of Haliburton School of the Arts (this year). Yesterday, we worked hard at our repertoire in preparation for our mini concert today. We chose 5 pieces – Feeling Groovy (strumming chords), Read More …
Day 2 & 3 – week 2: So, moving along at a steady clip, but also going back frequently and reviewing, which is providing some much needed feelings of “I can do this”. On Monday, I resisted the urge to Read More …
Day 1 – week 2: Ukulele!!!! Well that was fun, and a bit challenging, too. I’m going to learn stuff that I’ve either forgotten over the past 40 years (reading music) or haven’t taught myself yet (scales and finger picking). Read More …
Sunday: we’ve been lucky with weather all week. It’s either been hot and sunny or hot and overcast, but we’ve dodged the threat of rain every day – until today. So, we had another lazy morning, hanging around until about Read More …
Day 5 – last day of class! As the rest of my classmates spent a considerable amount of time making the tails of their “big birds” fancy, I was able to catch up and finish at the same time as Read More …
Happy Canada Day!!! Monday, Canada Day, we were up early, fed, and off to camp! What a day! There are six of us in our wire sculpture class, all women, and we’re going to make three different sizes of herons Read More …