Another Day Older...

 

but, not deeper in debt.  If you said, "Song done by Tennessee Ernie Ford in 1955, written by Merle Travis in 1946," you get 100 bonus points.  Yeah, I had to look up those dates.

Murphy is another day older.  He has no idea that jumping up on the wall was "a bad thing."  No, he is not a bad boy, but he is the first cat since Smoke who was allowed outside without being on a leash... and I don't know how I would retrieve him if he went over that wall.

Joan took him out on the leash yesterday, then let him spend some time in his catio.  I did take him out without the leash for a walk around the yard, but absolutely stayed RIGHT BY HIM.  He was confused about that.

Mornings are when he likes to run, so Joan insisted on the harness and leash when I took the furry boy out this morning.  He is like a different cat when on the leash: walked nice and stayed right by my side.  Seriously, he walked on the leash as well as any of our cats have.

No, I did not get a photo of him outside on the leash, but I did take one indoors when we got back - you can see his new harness (that goes well with his coloring)...

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More music.  Mark, Ron, and I will be playing out next week.  First time for me since Covid started.  We got in another rehearsal today, to run through the songs in our set list.  Not counting set up and a lunch break, it took us about 3 hours to get through an hour and 20 minutes worth of music.  We'll get one more rehearsal in before the gig (kind of a low-stress situation).  I'm just happy to be making music.

I borrowed a guitar from Ron so I could take my motorcycle.  Perfect weather for riding (upper 70s), but it is all city traffic to get to his house.  So, not fun riding, but it was riding.  I took a backpack (mic, iPad holder, folding guitar stand, XLR cables, iPad, shakers) and Joan packed me a small cooler (with drinks), so it still wasn't traveling light.  I did take a guitar along to Ron's house once last year... a lot of wind resistance.  Didn't feel like dealing with that today.  I got to play is 00-28 Martin; a nice guitar, but I definitely prefer the sound and feel of my Emeralds.  Very nice of Ron to let me use that guitar.