My Thursday Jam Session was
happening tonight – and I was invited to an early Supper beforehand 😊
The get-togethers are
casual, as well as productive and fun-filled hours. I dressed low-key.
I also drove into town to
grab a coffee … and happened to be thinking on a song – when it burst forth on
the airwaves 😉
Earlier this week someone
had mentioned it; and I have been hearing it every summer since 1973, when I first
heard it. I like it, and can name it on the first riff. It made me laugh to
hear it as I was thinking on it.
I was still laughing about
the dovetailing when I arrived at my Spruce Creek destination.
Lynn made spaghetti (yum!),
followed by homemade carrot cake (double yum!!); then we got down to the
business of why we were there: making music 😊
I can't play an instrument,
and I don’t sing … but I can brainstorm, and I can be a sideline cheerleader 😉
But before the dishes were
cleared and instruments appeared – GG barged in and slapped a binder of sheet music
down with a show of emotional venting, before storming out again. There had
been a rift in the group a few weeks ago between her and JR, and tonight the
split was finalized. Her voice will be missed – but not her tempestuous ego.
She’ll never own her
shortcomings; and we’re all done with her showboating.
A good 3 hours was put in
after the door slammed after her departure; and we all headed for our homes
feeling encouraged, uplifted, and satisfied with the unfolding happening of musical
talent, and friendly cohesiveness.
As I neared Heron Point, I
saw a strange occurrence in the sky: a slip of a rainbow hovering
vertically, with no discernable top of bottom – and no bowing effect at all.
Very weird. I’ve never seen anything like it … and I’ve never seen any sign
of a rainbow in a dry sky: I always assumed rainbows appear after a
significant rainfall.
This was a happening of a
different sort 😉
And as I learned when I
researched the weird thing … it’s rare, but not as strange as it appears. My
pictures are not very clear because the strange rainbow was faint in the evening
sky:
Tonight, I am working on a
pattern rewrite: fingering yarn isn’t available here (only Baby Sport Yarn)
since the covid madness pretty much destroyed businesses and catapulted the USA
into a recession: novelty things have basically dried up. I’ll make a drive to Hobby
Lobby at some point and see if they carry a lighter weight yarn (I prefer fingering
weight when knitting this particular pattern – Anne Geddes Baby Yarn would be
perfect, but the JoAnn Store here, no longer stocks it); but for now, I’m
working out/writing out a pattern to fit the slightly heavier baby yarn.
Sock weight yarn, which is a
type of fingering weight yarn, is waaay too expensive to use for this pattern (half
the skein of yarn for double the price). So, a rewrite is needed if I want
to continue knitting this little baby clothing item.
I do 😊
