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Life Pleasures 2: Concert

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Concert

ALMOST every year since we’ve been married hubby and I have gone to the Home County Festival in London.  Always happens right around his birthday.   We took the lad when he was wee young and spent most of the time in the children’s area.  This year we went and the lad pokemon go’d and worked on soapstone carvings.  We hardly saw our lad this year at all.  He enjoyed it so very very much!  But honestly… so did we.  🙂

Home County is a free festival…you pay what you want when you are there if you like, some do, some don’t, but most do.     Bands play, they have workshops where they try to teach you things, and where different groups get together and have fun playing with each other.   

This is the first year I heard someone playing a washboard and it was rather neat!  🙂

This is admittedly not a great video as I used my tablet 
(the lad had my phone) but it was so much fun listening to this group
 I wanted to try to share it with you.  🙂

This year it was a wonderful surprise I got to hear one of my favourite singers!!!   Susan Aglukark did a short 45 minute concert for us!!   IT WAS SO WONDERFUL!!!!   It was WAY too short, I told hubby I’d love to hear her in concert and then he reminded me of ticket prices so well.. that’s not going to happen.  🙂  But I can buy her music and listen on-line and what not so life is good is it not?

She performed this song for us.  I made my hubby grin as I sang along and shuffled around in my chair.  🙂

 I rather despair at this point of getting my lad to enjoy SITTING and listening to music.  He likes some kinds of music well enough…but not to just sit and listen to.. he’d rather be doing stuff and have it on in the background. 

He did make a couple of neat soap stone carvings though which was rather neat to see, but no pics allowed this year.  🙁

Anyways, we heard some wonderful music and well… some that we got up and left with, but 95% of it was great!  The Bombaliers, the washboard folks, Amanda (something) and a celtic group…. and of course Susan Aglukark.  

It was a great Friday evening and Saturday.  We didn’t go on the Sunday because hubby had to preach and it was his birthday…cake and presents filled our afternoon.  🙂
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Life Pleasures 1: Hike

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 One of my pleasures in life is to go hiking with my family.   The older the lad gets the more he doesn’t stay with me and the more he hikes off out front with his dad.  They frequently check back with me to make sure I’m not lost or stuck as I’m not as nimble as I used to be… but it’s fun to get out and explore.

I thought you might like to see some of the walks/hikes we’ve done and some of the treasures I’ve found along the way.  🙂

I admittedly have a thing for mushrooms.  Whenever I go on a hike or walk I’m bound to find some sort of fungi to take a picture of.  One year I went for a walk and I found red and orange fungi, I was so stoked as that was a first time event.  Unfortunately…those pictures have been lost and I was so sad to discover that. But look!  I still have pictures from 2016!  🙂

 I managed to get a clear, up close and personal shot of this fungi.  Are they so interesting looking?   

Anyways…you might not be as keen on fungi as I am so moving on….

Who doesn’t love a leaf strewn path with trees all around, making you feel like you are alone in the world… just you and nature.  The sound of birds singing, the patter of small critters scurrying away, and if you are quiet enough and early enough in the morning…the odd deer moving silently through the trees.  It is SO cool!

You know, I like geese and ducks and what not.  Waterfowl are pretty cool.  But in town when you walk around and they are begging for treats it’s like.. ICK.. go away stupid birds.  But when you see those same birds in a natural setting it’s like .. wow.  

I’ve been trying to find some of the neat rock ones and stuff we’ve seen but I think they have alas… gone the way of most of my cool fungi pictures….  🙁   From the trails up north and stuff but I….. ah well.. you get the picture right?   Long walks/hikes in the middle of nowhere is a lovely lovely thing to do.  🙂 
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