Hi Janis,

>> seafood available at every local seafood shop.. even my stinky home
>> town had one, because the owner of that shop traveled to NYC to the
>> fish market every day.

 JK> > Did you see my write up of the meal Steve and I had with his family?
 JK> The > fish was excellent; the seafood was very forgettable.

 JK> Yes, I did thank you for that.

OK, I learned my lesson--do not order seafood at that place any more.

>>> up "enough" I can play with two hands.  When I can't that's when I
>>> know I need to practice more and force the issue to lossen things up
>>> (MS doesn't help (g)).
>> loosen even (G)

>> > The sister that could play, took lessons when her elder son did as a
>> > child. She plays like a robot tho, no expression to it.

>> Ah that's sad.  I've heard my son play with such feeling and emotion I
>> couldn't understand why he gave it up.  My daughter plays the same way
>> and won a number of awards throughout the time she was taking lessons,
>> etc.

 JK> > Is she still playing?

 JK> Yes.. she has a beautiful Steinway piano.  It's sound is incredible.
 JK> I love playing it when I visit her house :)

Sweet! Our older daughter's son has taken lessons for some years. He's
going to Interlaken Music Camp this summer.

>> thinking about it) .  We mostly told stories that we thought were
>> imporant... with some humor :) We used purchased sound tracks like
>> from Music Machine as well..

>> If you decide to try it, let me know :)

 JK> > OK, but it might be a while. We're operating with a tight budget
 JK> this > year. The crafts projects are using some materials from last
 JK> year, some > minimal purchases and some recycle type materials.

 JK> I noticed those puppets suffered in storage which is sad... the eyes
 JK> fell off most of them.  I guess the glue couldn't hold all these
 JK> years.  I think most of the eyes are in the storage bags but I'm not
 JK> sure.  I'll have to check that because we were planning on giving them
 JK> to our grandchildren at some point. They weren't cheap to buy that's
 JK> for sure.

Hope you can restore them. Are the boys interested or will they be going
to great grandchildren eventually? BTW, how old are they now? IIRC, at
the picnic in 2008, they ranged from about 2 to 12.

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