4 Seconds A Day: December 2015

It's A Medley

Piano Terror

4 Seconds A Day: March 2015

maybe our most boring month yet

The Saddest Chopsticks

the first lesson is always the worst

Avant Ambient Drone Jazz

The kids discovered the large wooden noise box in the corner of the living room and gifted us an impromptu concert of avant jazz and ambient drone tinklings. It was surprisingly lovely.

Hiding Behind The Keys

Grabbing him when I can these days...

Messing With Mixolydian

Christmas In The City, Part Two

Looking for warmth and shelter, and where better but the best Toy store (that I know of) and the only place where you can run on a giant piano

See

And get glitter tattoos

Fraggle Rock is back people

After dinner at Burger Heaven it was a short walk thru the heavy construction at St Pats, and then the main event

Getting up close and personal

Grandma & Grandpa get in on the action

Just the girl and her Mommy

Just a girl and her Daddy

Then I surprised them with tickets to the Christmas Spectacular at Radio City and got this one shot pre-curtain, and then enjoyed the rest as if I was a kid again. The girls loved it, even if the final acts were taken in thru exhaustion. Being exhausting was proof of what fun we had. When can we do it again?

One Way To Learn It

song of the day

I can like this

How Chilly Do You Mean?

song of the day

is this winter music?

it is peacefully hushed

it is by a dude named "Chilly"

it does evoke the winter solstice

it is winter music

Keeping Tabs On The Girl

While we hobnobbed in SoHo our good buddy the Trunks kept watch over Yuula sending photographic evidence that she was in fact still alive and well without the assistance of her loving parents. Here's some of the highlights.

Yuula is a great aid in running errands. That is to say, she fits nicely in her carseat.

They found an optimal spot for a strawberry break.

Practicing a concerto they've been working on for a few months now. Debut performances are set for July 15th, 2024.

I'm pretty sure the idea here was for Yuula to take a nap and not Dunja's sister Katie.

Yuula continues the practice of teaching Isabella horrible table manners.

Dunja getting in some practice.

And around 11pm, she was done.

Two Peas At A Piano

This is from when we hung out with the Trunks about two weeks ago. I forgot to pop it up here. Guess we were still a little buzzed er something...

At 90 For 62 Like They're 20 In The 20's

At the age of 90 and married 62 years these two are acting like they're 20 in their 20s

Pounding The Ivories

She's learning a few Christmas carols for the holidays

Hungry Spastics Play Hungarian Classic

Tragic Cats And Tinkle Fingers

It's a bad week to be a cat here. Gabukobiwe showed up after going missing for over a month and she was pretty torn up and quite skiddish. She was never jumpy before. Must be battle trauma. Then Høgni showed up while we were gardening and she somehow managed to get the entire right side of her body covered in some kind of tar that has hardened into a sticky black shell. We tried to bathe her but that may have upset her more than being paved did. Then we noticed that Fawsja's four kittens has mysteriously become three. We hope for the best, but know better.

In slightly happier news, Yuula has taken up a musical instrument...



...only because she can now reach it. There will never be another quiet moment.

Neither Flood Nor Meatball

The shed is coming together, despite the rain that fell from roughly 1pm to 8, when my father & I, soaked thru to our bones and bodies covered in wet sawdust, finally called it quits. We threw tarps on top of tarps up over the the structure and kept somewhat dry, but there was no avoiding the torrentials. The flood warning thru the night has me a little unsettled, since the entire back of the thing lies on a man (me) made retaining wall that is still in its infantile stages of construction. If it's still standing tomorrow morning, we may be able to finish it. It will be an accomplishment.

The drier moments...





Laura made a delicious spaghetti and meatball dinner that replenished my carbs. Now I am ready for sleep. We are winding down...

I Know This Feeling

Where was this chick when we moved our piano?

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Laura's Heart, I'm Soul

That's right it's Heart & Soul but we do it "Tom Hanks in Big" style so it's okay. But no Chopsticks yet. We'll save that for lesson #2...... next Thanksgiving.



I did hit the wrong note. Shhhhhh