Garden of Thought

I was playing one of my all-time favorite albums, Thomas Bergersen's "Sun" this afternoon and noted how part of why I like it so much is it is literally amazing All The Way Through. I have some of his other ones but "Sun" really is exceptional.

This made me wonder if some of you might have favorite albums to recommend that you've found to be just an amazing ride start to finish? Good to the the last drop? Any genre or era is fine, I enjoy all kinds of things.

Just a brief music rec for anyone who likes soundtrack/epic instrumental music... I've only now discovered Thomas Bergersen (half of the duo that make Two Steps from Hell) - first heard of his stuff via a Toothless tribute on youtube that was set to 'Dragonrider' (not on these albums but oh well)

It's just....oh....just.... wooooooooah!
If you want to be blown away, try his album "Sun"... but I ended up also getting "Illusions" and "Invincible" and they're all just amazing. 0.o
*goes off to dance around the living room dramatically*

Gosh, this has been such a long slog from January, I'm seriously looking forward to spring break at the end of the month just so I don't have to drive kids here there and everywhere for a few days.  Can't complain about the weather though, it's been a really mild winter and now it's a lovely, mild day, perfect for grubbing out chickweed and repotting some houseplants.  Got some funky long rubber mats for our front steps to replace the anti-slip strips, they look like a wrought iron leafy design and it really dresses it up, that and a couple new pinwheels and it's positively cheerful.

And I got a walkman! I'm a techie dinosaur to my kids, heck, I still have a drawer full of cassettes, so moving to an mp3 player of my own is quite the leap into the space-age by comparison, lol...gradually learning how to work the thing, amused by thinking to myself that at last I can participate in those memes where they want you to put your player on shuffle and do things with the results.  We must keep our priorities straight, after all! :-D

We've also had another church join us in our building to share the space starting this past week - I went to their Bible study last week just to meet some of them and they were a hoot, looking forward to making that a regular thing, I'm always up for a good study, they're always fun and/or interesting.  This weekend we're doing a St. Pat's day potluck with the two congregations so folks can get to know one another, so far so good.  Our preschool is really struggling to find students (or rather, families who can afford to pay for preschool) so it's nice to have something working well.

Out picking blueberries in the sun, enjoying the sound of the leaves in the trees when along came an ice cream truck playing.... La Cucaracha. I mean - really? 0.o

The regulars around our area every summer are 'Home Home on the Range' and 'Turkey in the Straw' with occasional appearances of a bright yellow one playing 'Ode to Joy'. We'll see if this one manages to make a living with that tune or not. *snert*

Haven't done a meme for a while, this one seems to have reached out a tentacle and snagged part of my evening - I blame curuchamion and lothithil equally for this.

How it's supposed to work:
A. List seven habits/quirks/facts about yourself.
B. Tag seven people to do the same. (Nah.... what if they're busy and it just annoys them?)
C. Do not tag the person who tagged you or say that you tag "whoever wants to do it." (Sure you can! There isn't even a curse of toenail fungus or anything threatening to zot you either way)

( So here's seven snatches of the fabric of my days, or er... something. )