81 books is a lot!

I've posted some links from YouTube in the sidebar for the Foothills Philharmonic New Year's concert. Unfortunately you can't see D and the video is taken from the string side. D says you can hear the trumpet part on the Salute to Ole Blue Eyes. He played first trumpet that night. He'll have a solo during Peter and the Wolf at the chamber concert on the 17th. Way to go D! I'm so proud of you.

Speaking of D.... we've discovered that he has Healing Hands. Yup. I stumbled over my new trash can and it left a large bruise on my leg. I'd say it was four to five inches long. Nasty looking, blue-green thing but it didn't hurt. Good thing it's winter and not summer. Anyway, last night D massaged the bruise for awhile and today it is half the size and most of the color is gone! I was shocked because I heal so very slowly.

I've been busy reading and reviewing books for my 999 challenge. I'm trying to get a good momentum going because February is coming! I'm scheduled to read The Brothers Karamazov with the group in February and I know that will slow me down. Those 800 pages will feel like 1600. Today on LT somebody started a thread where 999'rs posted pictures of their book piles. I thought I would be cute and play off my (lack of) height by standing next to a vertical stack of 81 books. I figured it would be taller than I am. It is. In fact it was so unstable we couldn't make it work. So, this is what we did instead.