New to Us

I made an innocent comment last night at choir practice.  I was talking with Barbara about practicing and how, since I don't have a piano or keyboard, I practice to the piano app on my our Josh's Kindle Fire.


She said, "Do you want one?  I have one that I'm not using."


Ummm .... yes, please!


So I drove her home from practice and picked it up.  She said she had just bagged it up in the garage and didn't know what to do with it.


It's been 5 1/2 years that I've been without a piano.  I miss it so much.  I try to fill my music void with choir and my trombone, but it's not the same.  And let's face it, I don't play my trombone much.  Something about sitting down at a piano with a hymnal or old sheet music and just playing that is cathartic and relaxing.  Not to mention now I can properly practice my choir music.  YAY!


We had an extra few minutes this morning, so we set it up and the girls were thoroughly impressed.

My New to me Glider - and YAY Freecycle

I received today on freecycle a glider rocking chair. I'm so excited. I've been wanting a rocking chair since I was pregnant, and we just couldn't afford it. I've made do with the seating that we have, but still secretly wanted one and was going to put it on my Mother's Day list. Then earlier this week I saw a posting for a glider on freecycle. I jumped on that opportunity. I picked it up today. It's gently used, but perfectly stable, clean, and doesn't smell. No animals or smoke. No stains. Just some minor scratches on the wood and a creaky joint. Nothing a little WD-40 can't fix.

If you aren't a member of your local freecycle group, I highly recommend you find it and join. It's a yahoo group. I LOVE them. I delete abotu 90% of the incoming emails, but every now and then I get a great find. I've also gotten rid of a lot of things that were just sitting around the house.

In the last year or so I've received

• Maternity Clothes
• A HUGE corner desk for work
• Toys for Audrey
• Baby Clothes
• and this Glider

I'd say about $500 worth of things that I've gotten free.