Today was unexpectedly quiet.. by the middle of last week we new of no fewer than four places we had to be and things we had to do today.. but one by one, they fell off our calendar.. the biggest one, Jingle rails, the rail jam for Sam that Ralph is organizing was postponed until next week due to the rain.Another event, a party is actually this coming Monday.. and another party was called on account of a stomach bug.  In the end we just stayed inside out of the rain and cleaned the house. We still had two room that were not quite usable since the big painting project.. We manged to empty out and clean the upstairs guest room.. and the downstairs  ‘toy room’…. The toy room was packed with knickknacks that Diane had carefully taken down, cleaned, wrapped and stored when we painted this fall. Now what to do with all that cr-p ? It took us hours to go through and figure out what stayed, what we could give away and what we had to keep. Every cleaning job now is both cathartic and emotional. kid’s artwork, pictures.. you can imagine…in the end we were actually able to dig through and see the floor.. By evening that room is usable again.. actually.. all the space in our house is usable now.. and that’s a whole lot of space !

We had a few visitors today. jack. jessie. pat who was in from Japan.. the skanky green guys, Jonathon from down the street. My dinner time there were 6 of us.. I cooked

Around 8 we decided to brave the wet roads and go hear Skanky Green at On The Rise. They put on a great show and the place was packed. The house was full of the bands fans, friends and family.. which are all good friends of ours. It was so wonderful hearing good live music and being surrounded by all these people we like.. We really do live in a wonderful place..

As the show wound down. the guys did the song they wrote for Sam.. ‘Captain Sam’.. It always makes me choke up.. I love hearing them sing it.. Here’s a rough recording of them.. Abbot made a real recording which I can post later…