Singing in Spring

This is our crazy busy time.  My singing group, the Treble Clef Singers, are busy singing, just about every day.  Last week, this week and next we will be making joyful sounds.  We sing to convalescent homes, assisted living centers and sometimes we sing at community events.  We give the money we make (yes we get paid!) to a doctor who does cleft palate surgeries in developing countries.  Its a pretty good cause and singing with this group is so much fun.  I never thought my average voice would ever find a place in an actual singing group but here I am.  Maybe they take me because I bring Layne along with me.  His bass voice sounds pretty fine when he sings the various solos that our leader assigns him.  He's not into solos he keeps saying.  But I guess he is now.

Here he is, crooning and charming all who hear him.  The men in our audiences especially seem to like him; maybe they tire of so many women!  One of the ladies who heard him asked if he was married.  "If you weren't married, I'd go after you," she said with a wry smile.

For this concert series I talked the ladies into using hats as part of our choreography.  There was some resistance to the suggestion.  Hats are not good for hairdos you know.  Personally that's why I don't like them.  But I could see how cute it would be to use them so I put forth the inspiration I had.  Since they put me in charge of choreography, they have to put up with my ideas.  Once they got used to using the hats as I directed, they changed their minds and decided to like the idea!

Since singing, and especially since getting a new piano, I think I'm beginning to figure out music a lot better.  I wish I had taken lessons when I was young since, being old now, I can see how much work it is really going to be to be musically capable in any significant way.  But I'm going to continue my small effort, at least to learn a little more than I do now.  Here's a picture of Layne and me just before one of our performances.  

On a different note, the whistle pigs which fill our empty fields are also filling our lawn this spring.  Our neighbor, Jim, says the cold winter gave them more time in their holes to reproduce.  Maybe so because they are everywhere.  Our cat, Cherry, has caught a couple but must be on the job a whole lot more than she has been to make a dent.  There are times when she and her chubby sister just sit and watch them play and dig into the lawn.  But here you can see her on the prowl.  The whistle pigs are hidden in the wood pile, as she knows very well.

I know I probably bring pornography up way too much, but our porn assignment is picking up!  We are speaking at a stake conference tonight and again tomorrow.  And then again next week. Wow.  After feeling a little let down that we haven't been reaching our members, things are starting to move.  At least that is how it feels right now. These things seem to come in bunches.  Who knew that the day would ever come when we would specialize in the problem of pornography.  Every stage of life has its surprises.