i didn't pick apples, but i did babysit...

today i had a rather interesting day....i was supposed to go pick apples for the neighbour, but she didn't get home before i had to leave to go do something in town tonight, so i missed that...hopefully i'll get some good apple picking time in tomorrow, though!...

i babysat tonight at the head start because there was a meeting going on and they needed someone to watch the kids, so i said i'd do it...it was pretty neat...this one little boy told me he loved me before he left...it was funny, i'd never seen the kid before in my life...it melted my heart, of course... :-)

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i started poking around a little and looking at the things we needed to do for my experiencing the arts class....one of the assignments is to make a musical instrument...i looked around online for a while and found this one site that had some instruments you could make out of PVC pipes...but that looked like way too much work, and power tools, and things that could spell serious trouble for someone like me who can break a bone in her foot while bridge fishing....

so, i'm probably going to make a rain stick....i really wanted something that was kind of like ... "out there"...while rainsticks may not be as "out there" as a clarinet made of PVC pipe, they're still a little more "out there" than your standard wax/tissue paper and comb harmonica or your quaker oatmeal canister turned into a drum, or your shoebox, ruler, and elastic guitars....

so i'm going to work on that tomorrow...i've got different types of tubes around here and i want to fool around and see what gives me the best sound, i guess...

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anyhow, it's been a long day, i'm sure there are a million things i could write about but i'm tired, so i think i'm going to head to bed...

have a good friday, everyone!!...

-ramona anne

one good thing that happened today: i heard a barred owl vocalizing this evening...a few times...it's always a thrill to hear them...and even more of a thrill to know what birds i'm hearing!!...

also, jim called from alaska and told me that brenna & aidan were going to have a new baby brother in the spring of 2007!!!....we knew they were going to have another baby, we just didn't know what gender it was going to be...