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Weekend (ghost town and food)
Sep. 3rd, 2011 07:21 pmForget vacation--this is the weekend of the keyboard instrument! I was asked at last minute to play piano this morning for a baptism, and tomorrow I'm substituting for the regular organist. Ack. The thing about pianos is, they're all the same. The thing about organs is, they're all different. So this morning I also went in and checked out the organ. And--ack! There is no bass coupler* option on this one! When last I was an organist, I had started playing the pedals, but it's been over a year since I've touched an organ, and...yeah. One hour of practice isn't much. Hopefully most people will be out of town for the holiday...
After all that, we decided to explore somewhere close to home. There is supposed to be a ghost town out in the wheat and potato fields around here. So we drove there. Only--all that was left was a single house, and it was in the middle of the field where you couldn't really go up to it.
We did see lots of this, though:
So there was a lot of driving around in Nowhere, Idaho. Now we know what is off thataway--but next time, I think we'll explore somewhere else.
Then we came home and made eggrolls. My older daughter had this garden project from school, and hers was a cabbage.
So, you see--a lot of cabbage! And we don't really eat cabbage much. So I decided to make eggrolls out of it. They turned out not bad (although not as good as my sister's recipe, which I couldn't find).
I hope you all have a nice Labor Day weekend!
*The bass coupler takes whatever settings you already have for the manuals and copies them an octave lower. The upshot of it is, it sounds like you're playing the pedals when you really aren't.
After all that, we decided to explore somewhere close to home. There is supposed to be a ghost town out in the wheat and potato fields around here. So we drove there. Only--all that was left was a single house, and it was in the middle of the field where you couldn't really go up to it.
We did see lots of this, though:
So there was a lot of driving around in Nowhere, Idaho. Now we know what is off thataway--but next time, I think we'll explore somewhere else.
Then we came home and made eggrolls. My older daughter had this garden project from school, and hers was a cabbage.
So, you see--a lot of cabbage! And we don't really eat cabbage much. So I decided to make eggrolls out of it. They turned out not bad (although not as good as my sister's recipe, which I couldn't find).
I hope you all have a nice Labor Day weekend!
*The bass coupler takes whatever settings you already have for the manuals and copies them an octave lower. The upshot of it is, it sounds like you're playing the pedals when you really aren't.
