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Lovely weekend again!
Sep. 26th, 2011 03:15 pmThe Atlanta filkers had another housefilk, this time at Myra's house (thanks for having us over, Myra!) and Alice kindly offered me crash space for the weekend. I brought my canoes so Alice and I could go canoeing, too.
You would think that would be enough fun for one weekend, but it turned out Beth and Jennifer were going to a bead show Saturday morning and invited me along.
( This totally brought out my inner dragon. )
Does anybody know why these mood beads are so much more colorful than the old mood rings? Was there some sort of change in the chemistry or the production process used? Because I remember those mood rings and they were *nothing* like this. They barely changed colors at all--usually they were meh gray or bleagh brown.
At the housefilk I pulled out some of my new songs, specifically Douglas and One Salt Sea and In Providence Skies, and was very pleased when people joined in. Michael was there, with his guitar, and courageously undertook to play some requests and backup for other requests. Myra plays the ukelele and this time I really got to hear it so I can testify to this. We were having so much fun singing and telling stories that we didn't leave until nearly eleven, which is considerably later than I had planned on, but it was well worth it.
On Sunday Alice and I drove up to Lake Allatoona, which is very pretty country, and went canoeing in, um Red Top State Park. We put in at the first ramp we came to, which turned out to be quite busy and next to a part of the lake that gets a lot of big fast motorboats. We still had fun, but it make takeout pretty tricky. And it was a good thing both Moxie and Constance (and Alice) handle waves well. The mimmoths rode in the dry bag and were well behaved when we let them out at our lunch stop.
When we finished up we took a half hour or so and drove around the park (very pretty) and found two places farther in that would make better put-ins provided the water level doesn't drop too far. We'll probably go again some time in October, and we'll try those places and see if they work better.
You would think that would be enough fun for one weekend, but it turned out Beth and Jennifer were going to a bead show Saturday morning and invited me along.
( This totally brought out my inner dragon. )
Does anybody know why these mood beads are so much more colorful than the old mood rings? Was there some sort of change in the chemistry or the production process used? Because I remember those mood rings and they were *nothing* like this. They barely changed colors at all--usually they were meh gray or bleagh brown.
At the housefilk I pulled out some of my new songs, specifically Douglas and One Salt Sea and In Providence Skies, and was very pleased when people joined in. Michael was there, with his guitar, and courageously undertook to play some requests and backup for other requests. Myra plays the ukelele and this time I really got to hear it so I can testify to this. We were having so much fun singing and telling stories that we didn't leave until nearly eleven, which is considerably later than I had planned on, but it was well worth it.
On Sunday Alice and I drove up to Lake Allatoona, which is very pretty country, and went canoeing in, um Red Top State Park. We put in at the first ramp we came to, which turned out to be quite busy and next to a part of the lake that gets a lot of big fast motorboats. We still had fun, but it make takeout pretty tricky. And it was a good thing both Moxie and Constance (and Alice) handle waves well. The mimmoths rode in the dry bag and were well behaved when we let them out at our lunch stop.
When we finished up we took a half hour or so and drove around the park (very pretty) and found two places farther in that would make better put-ins provided the water level doesn't drop too far. We'll probably go again some time in October, and we'll try those places and see if they work better.
