Family Band - Year Eight

Business as usual.

Same music.

Same saxaphone.

Brittle pads rattling...

Warbling low C...

Bleeding gums after but a few minutes of play.

Christmas 2006

If we don't play...

Who will?

Family Band - Year Two

(Correction...Year One was actually Year Two, as I recall playing with John for Grandma Mille and Grandpa Richard a year or two earlier...but no pictures survive...so its kind of like a Star Wars prequal kind of thing)

The indulgence of the times brought with it a much larger band.

A percussion section...

A full range of horns (okay...2)

And a few cute faces to detract from the aging players.

Practice?  Yeah...once.

Passion?  You bet...anything for our beloved grandmother.

Heck...we even had real music this time.

Christmas 2000

Times sure have changed.

People come...people go.

Let's just remember the real reason we do this each year.

Family Band - Year One

I'll be the first to admit it:

I needed a shave...and a good hair-cut too.

Probably could have used a decent outfit as well.

Folding chairs, hand-scrawled music, and a couple of broken reeds were all we had.

Practice?  You bet.

Passion to play?  Not a doubt.

Christmas, 1992

What have we lost...a few years?  A few listeners?

Maybe the band...

Love you guys~

Lights

Sunday

Reece's Christmas Program at Rosemont Church

 He truly stole the show with his "sleeping" act...

Friday

Another Nebraska sunset for the books...

Saturday

Watching Mike play with toy trains...

 "Playing" trains is exhausting work...

Cold, snowy evening in downtown Lincoln.

Absolutely beautiful.

Guess snow isn't so bad afterall...



Markerboard Art

courtesy of Madison :)

Prize to whomever guesses the subject first...

Blind Willie McTell

Submitted my application to consolidate my student loans today.

With that, comes good news:

I may actually pay off my education before I retire!!!

God bless America and the American dream...

But who am I to complain?

No one can sing the blues quite like Blind Willie McTell...

Shuttlecraft to Enterprise...

...We will not be landing this Christmas...

 

Broken bulbs?

No problem...

This Romulan Warbird comes in peace...