Just a short post tonight to celebrate the transfer of our 5 year old plasma tv and 5.1 surround audio system to our dear friends Tray and Joanne Eppes in Darlington Heights near Cullen today. I rarely get to spend most of a day with Tray but we had a blast loading everything here with some assistance from Paul Alcock. Tray and I headed for lunch at The Blue Marlin and then off to the Heights. We drove to his house and unloaded everything and hooked it up and had a blast doing that too. I even got to hang out with the chickens for a while. What a day!
Tray is a potter and made us 10 gorgeous plates and bowls to take with us to Paris that will remind us of our home and friends here in Virginia. We couldn't take the tv or 5.1 system as they're all 110 and everything in France is 220 and all tv signals there are in a format called PAL as opposed to NTSC which is the standard here in the US. Tray proposed a swap and it was a done deal.
EVERYONE WINS!
There's a major space that opened up in our family room with the departure of all that AV gear and it's another marker that our time here is fast diminishing. I got quite a number of hugs from Tray today that made me feel pretty special. We've been used to talking at least weekly since we got here and Tray and Joanne are some of our favorite folks in the whole world. To say that we're going to miss them is one of the understatements of the century. The plates and bowls Tray made for us will be in use daily in Paris so they'll never be out of our thoughts and from I've already heard the plasma tv is a HIT.
I play my last show here tomorrow night with my pals Phil and Pam at the White Hart as part of The Black Madelines and Saturday I'll be at Wardstock III, Sunday redoing vocals for my solo CD with Billy Worley, and so it goes.
Ain't life GRAND?
Love to all!
sid
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