ChiaChatter

Maisie loves when I've eaten the last of the yogurt!

It is down in the single digits this morning (-1°F wind chill) and the little critters are gathering around the corn (and black oilers) pile! We also have a bird feeding station in another part of the yard, but hubby Pete puts this little pile out so that I can see them from the window next to my recliner while I have my morning coffee.

Come, Holy Spirit, Dove Divine is a song I've been working on because I love it. I've tried to get a near-perfect play-through all day, and deleted several GBs of recordings. Finally I just decided that next one is what I'm posting - good or bad! BUT as I always say, I'm not a performer, I just like to share things from my life (good or bad) and playing my keyboard is a big part. So here it is for what it's worth...

My service dog Maisie loves chains. Today I bought her a new one; this is when I gave it to her.

My poicephalus parrots, red-bellied Maxwell and meyer's Elliot, LOVE our new home and have so much more fun here than they have in our last couple of places! This video shows their morning routine today.

I share how I solved my issue with my chair at my keyboard vs. Pete's recliner attempting to share the same space.

I actually have loads of video and photos, but these are the highlights from Casey's VERY special day!

Just a little clip of the funny turkeys on our lot, I get such a kick out of them!

Using Red Copper 5-Minute Chef

These are 2 clips from when we first took the dogs over to Myrtle (our new-to-us 5th wheel).

Everybody has a rough day once in a while, even working dogs, right?

My poi boiz, Elliot and Maxwell, enjoying the packing material that Thrive Market uses for its breakable items.

We have a lot of turkeys around here but 14 regulars that hang out in the yard for larger parts of the day. Sometimes 10 of them come in a group - sometimes 4 come together - and sometimes all 14 come at once. Today the 10 were here, I was sitting inside watching them, and saw the toms start to gather so I grabbed my phone to record. Apparently they were miffed at the other 4 for being late to the party, and received them with a less than happy welcome. But all was well in the end! 👍🦃🦃🦃🦃

As I'm getting to know my new-to-me Tyros5-76 I will share the occasional video. It took a while, but I finally figured out how everything worked; now I just need to get used to reaching for settings and buttons as I play, they aren't where I think they should be yet, so when I'm a few measures away from a button-push I start to get a little scrambled which causes me to lose focus on my playing...and it takes a few more measures afterward to unscramble! But I'm learning, and by sharing these maybe other people who are learning new things - keyboard-related or not - will be emboldened and encouraged. This is a Dottie Rambo song called The Holy Hills of Heaven Call Me Home. (I love Dottie's songs, she was truly blessed with great talent!)

Wasn't able to lay everything out to show it today so I did the next best thing...