Guitar Lessons
Jasmyn & Ethan had their first Guitar lessons today(Friday). Brian Dedera (his kids go to CCS) is giving them weekly lessons for $10 (for both of them). Awesome deal.
Jasmyn got a guitar for Christmas and has been trying to learn how to play it from the internet and occasionally a friend helps her after YW's, but she was struggling, so I thought it would be good to have someone show them the basics & then she will be able to take off from there.
Ethan was a little put out last week when I told him I signed him up for lessons. (He's using the little First Act Discovery guitar Jasmyn got years ago when she was little. Grayson broke 3 strings on it, so had to go get those). He said "why didn't you ask me first if I wanted lessons"? I said "I thought you wanted to learn how to play the guitar". Ethan says "I want to play the ELECTRIC guitar, not THAT guitar!"
Well, I had to explain to him that he had to start with the little cheapy acoustic guitar, then if he really liked it & wanted to pursue it he could get an electric guitar. That seemed to mollify him. I told Brian that Ethan wanted to learn how to play the electric guitar and Ethan seemed happy to find out that Brian also played the electric guitar, but first learned on the acoustic!
The lessons are only 30 minutes, every friday until end of June, then if they need to pick them back up again, they'll start when CCS goes back to school.
Panda Bear Headphones - for Toddlers
Grayson is ecstatic about the new headphones he got in the mail today. They are made for toddlers so they fit well and they have panda bear faces on the ears! Mom & dad are also excited - so we don't have to listen to whatever movie or game his playing on the computer. They have a long cord with volume control on it!
We need to find some longer ones for Ethan (don't think he'd go for the panda bears) for when he is playing games on computer or ps2 or watching cartoons - they drive me crazy and there is no volume shut off thing on the websites of the most annoying ones - of course!
Fruit Trees
ALL of our fruit trees are blooming! The peach tree has beautiful pink blooms, so this year we'll have fuji apples, macintosh apples, pears, peaches, plums, prunes, bing cherries & pie cherries. Not to mention blueberries, strawberries, raspberries & maybe grapes (No blooms yet, I think I may have trimmed them too far back last year & killed them).
We have an abundance of weeds growing vivaciously under the trampoline and these little cute white flower things all over where they are not supposed to be. It has been so nice the past couple of days after the storms that I may plant my garden tomorrow. I made covers out of remay cloth to go over my raised bed gardens. Which reminds me - do you think they make shock collars for cats? I covered the raised beds in black plastic this fall to keep the cats from using them as a cat box and to keep the weeds from growing, but the wind blew a portion of the plastic away and I spent an hour a couple weeks ago locating cat turds and removing them from my vegetable garden box.
Missing Hamster
Last friday night I was cleaning out hamster cages. I had the girls in exercise balls & in one cage and I put the boys in the "play place" (a rectangle plastic tub) while I was working. Well, Meow Mix, the daddy, got out. We couldn't find him in Graysons room, so we assumed he went into our bedroom - which has infinately more places to hide. We put out food in hopes to coax him out into the open during the night. We haven't seen anything yet.
(I started this Friday, but computer shut down before I finished & could post it)
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