It’s Pi Day!  John’s favorite day.  His very favorite dessert is pie and he is a math whiz.

No pie for breakfast, just some pumpkin oat bran.

The weather has turned cold again. Sigh.

Busy day with work today, which is good.  It’s been a bit spotty lately and nice to have the last day of the pay period full of work to do.

Good news on the salmon front.  For lunch, John made the salmon patties from the canned vertebrae salmon that I attempted last week.  He picked out all the bones and made up the patties.

Verdict? I would eat them again! Surprisingly.  They were pretty good and if I don’t think about the can from last week, I am okay.  John has to fix them from now on or we have to buy the pouch salmon without bones.

My guitar was *finally* repaired. That took forever.  Since John was going to be out tonight with the car, I wanted to pick it up this afternoon. Of course, since it was pi day – we had to make a stop for some coffee:

And pie!  John got a peanut butter chocolate pie.    He let me swipe a couple bites and it was quite tasty.

Yay Pi Day!

Then it was picking up my guitar. Pretty much as good as new. There is a little chip in the finish at the bridge that pulled up when the bridge flew off, but other than that – it looks good.  They did put 6 new strings on it, so it will be a bit annoying with tuning for the next week or so until they get stretched appropriately.

I am sooooooo happy to have this back!

Would that be a happy face? I believe so.  It was all I could do to get back to work.  I could not finish fast enough.

Leftovers for dinner.  The last of the cheesy chicken chili.  I will miss it.

This is how I ate it the 3 times I have had it this week – always with sauteed broccoli.  Creature of habit.

Did some low impact aerobics after dinner and now I have set out my snack for later.  I am feeling almost…. organized??

Now for what I have been waiting to do all afternoon – go play my guitar!

Just a mishmash day today.  I like unstructured days, don’t you?  Of course, my day itself is structured, but I am going to just post stuff today.  This morning’s ride to breakfast was nice.  The city planted flowers and they are nicely blooming.

This street was totally redone this year.

Golden helmet!

I feel like Thor or something.  Does Thor eat bagels, I wonder?

That is John’s coffeecake in the background.  The coffee shop people know what we get all the time.  Hello from Rutsville.

So my little attic find project came out quite nice.  Last night, I used a drill to put some small holes in the bottom of each one for drainage.  Then I had to use a dremel to cut a wire bar that was across the fan one.  I am the queen of power tools!

Here they are.

I like this one better:

The vine will twine up the handles on this one over time (I hope).

I cleaned up the petunia a bit and it looks much happier.  Of course, both of the bigger plants were root bound and I am sure they are stretching their toes today.

I am not totally sure where they are going to go.  Guess I should have thought of that beforehand LOL!

Regarding Pixie and the birds.  I do have the bird feeders outside the big window that has a nice ledge for Pixie to sit on.  We call it Pixie TV.  Some birds drive her bonkers and others she could care less about.  There really seems to be no rhyme or reason to which birds, either. Not sure why that is, but she is a cat and maybe it has something to do with having a brain the size of a pea.  A lovable pea, but not very bright.

Now another cat shows up and she has a fit!  Sometimes she will puff up, which is hilarious because she is already pretty fluffy.

And, last but not least, my guitar video.  I promised one up this month.  This was not the song I had hoped to record.  Monday night I was really tired when I tried to record myself (big mistake) and kept making errors, so I switched pieces. This is really my warm up piece.  I do have it memorized, though.

Country Dance by Carulli (link for those that don’t see the embed)

I have to say it is funny to watch myself and see all the little things I do that I don’t realize when playing.

Thanks for indulging and listening to my progression 😀

Are you ready?

After my promise at the beginning of the year:

– I am going to work on my classical guitar this year. I really hope to practice 3 times a week and keep at it.  I tend to go in cycles with this.  In fact, to do this, I will commit to putting a video of myself on the blog playing something at the end of the year.      It may be Mary Had a Little Lamb, but I will do it… gulp…

I did practice – and about 6 days a week, too.  If you missed my post on what I learned from my guitar, check it out here.

Recording these videos has been an adventure.  First was finding a good spot to do it in with the best acoustics in the house I could find.  Hence my upstairs hallway shot LOL!

I also made mistakes a lot from some nerves and just general goofs.  (I should do an outtake video, although this is a family blog.). I had to decide which of the mistakes I made annoyed me the least to decide which take to use.

I will post a few videos over the next couple weeks for your enjoyment. I thought I would share a little short piece to start.  This is a Carulli prelude in G major

: Curtsey :