Funny Recital

Better to laugh than cry, right? The Breval should have been better. As you can tell from the video there's all sorts of rhythm, intonation and other issues. We don't even start together. However, it had its moments. At one point the pianist gets all the attention. The Schumann suffered a different fate, it started out well enough but then the violinist got lost and that threw me off as well. I won't post that video, it's too embarrassing :)

Playing with Pastels

This week's challenge at Drawspace. 5 x 6, pastel pencils, about an hour. Thought it came out pretty well and it passes the mirror test.

It's April Already?

Tax Season Accounting Work

Drawspace Art Card Trade (14 cards this time)

Substitute Teaching

Old clients coming out of the woodwork

Chinese Classes

and a chamber music recital in 5 days... 

Time sure flies with all this work and fun.

Key Episode

Let me tell you a story.  Today I picked up my hubby from the doctor's office around noon in South Miami. My sister-in-law, Nina, was in town for the week.  She was visiting South Beach close to our home.  We decided to meet up and do all-u-can eat dim sum for lunch.  By the time we drove home from South Miami and Nina drove from South Beach, it would be 12:30 pm. We could all go in one car.  We arrived a few minutes before Nina and I cleaned out the car.  Hubby drove to lunch.  A good time was had by all.  

Then the real fun began.  I'm ready to run off to my afternoon appointments.  Nina's ready to go finish her errands before her plane flight tomorrow.   I can't find my car keys.  Hubby doesn't have them.  Then Nina can't find her rental car keys either.

Huh?  Did both car keys run off together? Did they fall down the same hole in the time/space continuum?  We could understand one of us losing our keys, but both of us?

After lots of looking and retracing my steps, I finally found my keys. They were in the car's trash bag that I had tossed into the public container by the bay.  Happily, the City of Miami hadn't picked up the trash.  I was very lucky.  Nina never did find her rental car key and had to hire a locksmith to make a new one.

Another Sketch

Another quickie - 40 minutes with the #2 pencil.  It doesn't pass the mirror test but I figured what the heck, I was in a hurry :)

Signed up for this month's Drawspace ATC - the theme of music/musical instruments was too hard to pass up.  Besides if busy Maricello can find time to do it, I can jump off the cliff too.