Thursday: Up around 8, but more sleep until 9. Shower, and checking email. Another cancelation on the course. Disappointing. Breakfast with MB. The eggs in the fridge had turned, so cereal instead. Down basement for sitting. Also culled some unwanted books from the shelves. Paid bills. Pulled together some information for the course, and printed some stuff out. Packed. Booked return trip for a couple of people. Set up details for the cat sitter. Eventually we got on the road around 1:40.
Dropped off keys at the cat sitters house. Stopped at a farm stand on the way out of town and bought some goodies, including a little pie for Tony. A very nice drive. The weather was lovely, and the trees were all colors. Stopped for gas. Got a call from Tony, who was traveling with Terry and Stephanie. One wrong turn at a confusing sign. Arrived at The Roundhouse around 4:20.
Bekkie gave us the grand tour. It's an amazing facility. 4 floors, full of cubbyholes, bunk beds, nooks and crannies. Impossible to do it justice. It would be fun to try to work out a floor plan. Packed to the gills with stuff, and more stuff... most of it really fun and creative stuff, but, stuff none the less. Decided cordoning off the video library wouldn't be worth it. Martin was the next to arrive, then Victor. Around 5:30, I remembered I had to pick up a couple of people at 6. Quite dark now, I drove back towards Greenfield, receiving a call from them en-route. They arrived at the pick-up location (a "Friendly's" restaurant) just after 6. Ryan D and Chris P. Asked them some questions about how they found out about the course on the drive back. Took a wrong turn, and then drove right past the driveway.
Back at the roundhouse, a brief meeting with Tony, Victor, Stephanie and Terry, about practicalities. Dinner at 7, with a very dramatic presentation by our host. Delicious food (egg noodles, mushroom stroganoff, bread, salad. sweet potato pie and whipped cream for dessert). Tony set the frame for the course. Bekkie gave her presentation on house rules and so on. A good bit of information: watch out for the electric fence around the goat pen.
After dinner, we had a little down time. Victor MB and I looked at the stars off the little porch. I walked a bill up to the mailbox. Then at 9:15 We assembled for the inaugural meeting in the 'sun room' area just off the dining area.
I helped one of the new folks get his guitar in tune. Our first guitar session began at 10:15, and ran until about 11:40. Beginning and ending with 'choose a note' clouds. Circulation exercises, in several patterns, using both the chromatic and diatonic (C Maj) scales. This session came to an end around 11:40. Tony declared a midnight guitar curfew.
Several of us moved furniture out of the small library, making the room available for tomorrow's sitting. I did a little sweeping, as Terry K played guitar. It seems everyone has gone to bed. The house is quiet now. 12:17 AM.
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