You Won't See Me...

 

If you said, "The Beatles, 1965," you get 15 bonus points.  If you ask, "Did you perfect the Cloak of Invisibility?"... no, but that would be interesting.

I took Murphy outside for a couple walks this morning, before heading to Mark's house to make some music with the guys.  With the van parked in the driveway, I thought it might be a good time to expose him to some outdoor time that isn't in our back yards.  He approached the van very cautiously - I thought he might remember it from our trip to the Grand Canyon.  Nope.  We walked around in the driveway and along the sidewalk in front of the house.  Murph did fine on the leash.

Later, it was back into our courtyard for some off-leash time.  He behaves differently depending on whether it is Joan or me that is taking him out: he tends to lay nicely when Joan is keeping an eye on him.  He likes to run around with me - I'm guessing he thinks I need the exercise more than Joan.

Often times, Murph will wander along the wall where Joan has a lot of plants and metal yard ornaments...

 "You can't see me, can ya?"  The boy makes me chuckle.  Frequently.

I don't know if this thing just sprouted, but I don't remember seeing it before...

 It's something coming out of that cactus; looks like little bananas.  Since it's a desert plant, probably something that will try to kill you.

That's it for the morning walk-abouts.  Time to head off to make some music.

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The music was good today - there were 7 of us; 6 playing guitars, 1 playing bass.  Do you need 6 guitar players?  No.  But, they are all friends of Mark's; and good guys.  As you might expect, it takes more time to get everyone going in the same direction.

We have something to work towards with the "big group": we're playing for a party at Ron's house in early April.  Apparently, we'll do a set with the big group, do a set with The Hip Replacements; a friend of Ron's will do a couple songs, then we'll wrap it up with the big group.  We made it through two sets of songs for the big group today.  That's an achievement with 7 people.