Two and a half inches!

Rain, that is.  Got our rain last night.  Lawn was brown, turned green today.

 This weekend we spent a lot of time at the local High School, helping with ushering duties at the Glenn Miller Birthplace Festival.  On Friday there were kids from a long ways away participating in the Scholarship contests, instrumental in the morning and vocal in the afternoon.

 This gal, from Utah, played the marimba and I thought was quite good.  She placed, but not first.  The first place got a $4,000 scholarship; second place got $2,000 and third place $1,000.

Here are all the instrumentalists.  Some were from the east coast.

Vocalists sang in the afternoon.  All but one were sopranos.









We heard, and helped seat people, for the Glenn Miller Orchestra twice, the Canadian Big Band from Toronto; the Omaha Big Band; and on Sunday the Tamana, Japan, all girls high school orchestra.  The young girls sounded just as good as the professional bands.  Hard to believe these 70 young girls could perform so well.  Anyone who didn't come to the Festival really missed some good entertainment.

Glenn Miller Orchestra

Tamana, Japan Girls High School Band

Saturday the neighbor had a friend bring in a lift machine so he could take out a mulberry tree behind his place.  While he was at it he took a couple big branches off our mulberry tree right beside it.  Since we were scheduled to work at the Festival all afternoon we didn't work on it picking up the limbs and cutting them into smaller pieces until Sunday morning after we rode our trikes down to the airport and partook of the pancake breakfast at their annual fly-in.  We didn't stay for the air show at 10:00 am, but worked on cleaning up the tree instead.  Were back to the school by 1 pm so helped seat the people for the Tamana girls.

Was a very enjoyable weekend.  I did record several of the bands and may try to upload some of them to U Tube later.

Till next time, Lynn