October 2011
We spent most of October doing Frustrated Maestro music in Galax, VA and Winston-Salem, NC. Charles loves directing the Maestros.
For this area rally, Greater Eastern Area, he wrote and the Maestros produced a show, “Back to Your Senior Year in High School.” The 1.5 hour show took the audience through The Football Game,The Sock Hop, Field Trip, Holiday Concert, The Musical, The Prom, Music We Listened To, and Graduation.
Please look at www.frustratedmaestros.blogspot.com . Look on the right side for Blog Archives, and open October 2011 to see this event. Also in the TABS on the home page you will see GEAR video and 19 You Tube events have been posted for your listening pleasure. Please don’t miss this highlight in our lives.
 November 2011 November is a stay at home month. We complete the yearly medical check ups and watch leaves fall. Charles still mulches our leaves and Roxie uses them as mulch. This year son Kevin and family spent Thanksgiving night with us. Kevin’s church sold smoked turkeys and they brought one for our meal. It was just delicious. Our grandboys are growing older! Not us! Daniel is 17 and a junior in high school. He has a lucky job at McDonalds flipping burgers. Michael is now 13 and continues to do very well in art. Likely this ability will pave the way to employment someday. Michael is showing good promise as a beginning trombone player. John, age 9, loves Cub Scouts. Recently his pinewood derby car placed 4th in their race. He was delighted. |
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 December 2011 November 28, 2011 we were loaded and headed south to our winter home in Leesburg, FL. A short jaunt to I-65 2 miles from home spelled trouble for an uneven motor. Thanks to phones and Internet on the road we made contacts at Cummins in Birmingham, AL. The travel day was wet and miserable. The diagnosis was an expensive sensor valve. We granted permission and on the test drive the bucking continued. Finally they followed Charles’s suggestion of checking for water in the fuel and he stood there while it drained out. Expensive mid-diagnosis but after a night there we were on our way to Holiday Travel Resort in Leesburg.We had left Franklin with only one greyhound, Daisy who came to live with us in December 2010. In our September post you will find that our Libby had crossed the rainbow bridge. See blog archives: September Again we contacted God’s Greyts Greys in Orlando and put in our request for another girl. Heidi was found and we went to get her on December 1, 2011. She is just delightful and easy to live with us. At the end of March she was tested for Therapy Dogs, INC and did three observed visits. She joins Daisy in our “work” with them to many facilities. |
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continue much the same. This was the 9th year on our site. Charles manages the active volley ball season. www.htrvolleyball.blogspot.com Please take a look to see the extent of these activities.
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From Collages Concurrently Roxie helps manage the computers for the park along with a super TEAM. The four of us set up and manage the bank of public computers, teach classes and provide Help Time each Monday morning. This year there were many unfortunate hurdles with wifi but once the phone company was convinced of their inadequate service and corrected it we had smooth sailing for the last two weeks of the season. Please look at www.htrcomputerclub.blogspot.com |
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| From Collages This year Charles started a small wind ensemble in our park. Word spreads very slowly in our non-Wi-Fi park but the group shows promise of growing next year. |
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From We are very busy for the four months in Florida and we enjoy every minute of it. In February we traveled 50 miles towards Tampa for another Frustrated Maestro event at the Southeastern Area Rally of FMCA in Brooksville. This was the 25th year celebration of Maestros there and we embellished this with a slideshow and appropriate music. Roxie has gotten a projector and loves making power point slide shows. The week is filled with music in rehearsals and performances. Charles loves directing the Frustrated Maestros. |
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| We will spend April – June at home and enjoy our flood refurbished home. We survived our May 2010 flood and are mostly complete. We do look forward to going home, “playing with the house” and digging in the yard. We will enjoy our neighbor’s cat Lulu who lives in our shop-garage in AC-heat, lights, and radio…and comes and goes through the kitty window Charles installed. |
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| From Collages In July we will travel to Essex Junction, VT for a Frustrated Maestro week at the Northeastern Area Rally. Charles will be directing once again. |
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From Collages We will return to TN in September. Again in October Charles will direct the Greater Eastern Area Rally Maestros this time in York, PA. We will return via Indianapolis, IN and a Maestro performance at the international convention. This time Charles will enjoy playing trombone. |
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| From Collages I do promise to NEVER get this far behind again. Hope you have had the patience to pursue to these words. We love hearing from each of you through our E mail address. |
