Seattle Underground

My cousin from California has been visiting over the weekend. Joanne and I picked him up at the airport Saturday afternoon and I'll be taking him back to the airport tomorrow afternoon.

Sunday we went to Seattle on the Bremerton Ferry (The Walla Walla). The Underground tour was very cool and informative. We were lucky that is was very clear and dry all day. It was cold, especially for a guy from Cal but not too cold. Yesterday we went to Northwest Trek and hung out there most of the day.

It was a fun weekend and we even had some snow today. There could be more snow tomorrow, we'll have to wait and see.

One last thought, "Do you think the Governor of Wisconsin is thinking, 'Let them eat cheese cake'"?

 A picture from the Walla Walla

Take a minute to visit The Goal Farm too!

Mondo Manda, not a bad idea!

Mike, you're right about cramming you fingers into them tiny little frets. I does remind me of switching back to guitar after years of banging on the bass. The guitar seemed pretty cramped like the mandolin does at this point.

The KTone finally came in the mail last night. It got stuck in bad weather coming from the East coast. I got it unpacked and gave it a once over. The workmanship and quality is pretty good for the price. The next step was to tune it and try out a few of the chords I learned.

This ended up with a 6 string Mandolin as both E strings broke when I tried to bring them up to tune. Fast forward to tonight... it is tuned up and has 8 strings again now. They are staying in tune a little longer each time I go over them again, they should settle down in a day or two. The D'Addario seems to tune and stay in tune pretty good, I might switch out the other six when I have more time.

Mandolin players spend half their time tuning their mandolin. They spend the other half of their time playing out of tune :)

Take a minute to visit The Goal Farm too!

No Labels - We the Purple - Facebook

It's a big toss up between adding this post and following advice from B.B. King who suggests, "When you don't have anything to say, shut up.".

That is really about all I have for tonight. I went to check out the No Labels and have been reading "We the Purple" which is a book similar to the idea behind "No Labels". And Facebook, well that might have to wait until another evening. Maybe tomorrow after practice is I don't get home too late.

Take a minute to visit The Goal Farm too!