My birthday was on Friday, woo hoo! This wasn’t a big milestone birthday, just a regular loser one. Mostly I’m celebrating being antisocial and not doing stuff with friends…

Louie and I had a lovely hike and dinner yesterday, but I’ll save that for another post. First, Tea and Scones! We took a class at the London Tea Room to make Tea and Scones. We each made about 10 scones and had tea and it was a wonderful. I forgot to pick up the recipe at the end of the class, and they haven’t responded to my email about it, so I may never know. I did find a similar recipe online and might try that in the future to give things another shot. The scones were delicious and the class was fun.

Many trays of scones!

I can’t even believe I took this photo, it’s so pretty!

Louie’s working on that egg wash.

On Friday night (my actual birthday) my band played at the Webster Arts Fair. It was a lot of fun, both playing and seeing lots of folks I knew (who were probably baffled at my playing with a didgeridoo, but it’s just getting more and more fun as I get better and my parts), and then browsing the various stands of art and trying not to buy anything (I bought something, but for a gift, not for myself).

It occurred to me this is something I might do in another life where I don’t work all the time—go to festivals and browse stands of art and enjoy a drink or ice cream while walking around. Instead, I chose this music life so I just spend the last hour catching up on emails, revising something I wrote, and searching for and printing music. I could spend more time, but decided I have enough time tomorrow to finish catching up on what I need to do, and it’s summer anyway, so things can be slower. I think right now I FEEL like I have more I should be doing than I actually do…though I still have plenty on my to-do list.

That’s how I feel right now too. I just want to lay around and read. Maybe I’ll do that now, after a quick run (well, by quick I mean short, not fast.)