Dec 19, 2010 - Banjo

Galen, with the help of two friends from church, put together this gorgeous banjo from parts owned by another friend from church, and we sent it to Jen for Christmas.  The back is burled walnut and is so pretty I briefly considered taking up the banjo, but only briefly much to Galen's relief.

Dec - Sunday School

Our Sunday school class brought in shoes, socks and underwear for CAM this morning.  Christian Assistance Ministry is a San Antonio organization that assists the the homeless and several members of our class work at least once a week with CAM.  Not everything got hauled upstairs to our classroom and a few people are missing from the photo, too.  For the past nine years our class has sponsored Undie Sundays in June and requests donations of socks and underwear from the whole church.  The crosses on the wall come from all over the place.  We all bring them back from vacations and amazingly there are only a couple of duplications.

Dec 4 - Gig in Comfort, TX

We played from 4-6 on a lovely day in Comfort.  
Galen and I have our good sides to the camera.

After the gig we stopped at PoPo's in Welfare, TX for dinner.  
This is our friend Richard.

There are about 2000 plates hanging on the walls at PoPo's.

Dec 3 - Riverpickers party

Lovely party - good food, good friends, and good music.

Nov 16 - A day together

Galen and I had a lovely day together today.  We started by exploring the new section of the Riverwalk

These fish glow in the dark.  San Antonio Art Museum is in the background.

Another view of the fish and new section of Riverwalk.

The old Pearl Brewery

After walking the Riverwalk, we went to a movie at the Quarry.

It is not your average movie theater.

Nov 14 - Austin Get Together

Moon Tower

This is one of the scrapbook pages I did of the Digital Scrapbook Place Austin Get Together.  I lived 80 miles from Austin for decades and knew about the murders but didn't know about the Moon Towers.  Austin is the only city in the country that still has them.

Oct 22 - Outside the Box

First Performance of Outside the Box

Click on the link above to see a shortened version of the first performance of the new band, Outside the Box.  All the guys are playing home made instruments.  Galen plays the washtub, which unfortunately you can't hear so you will have to take my word that he gets great sound out of it.  The fiddle is made from a gourd.  The dobro is made from half a suitcase and a metal dessert plate.  The guitar and mandolin are made from boxes.