Wee Small Hours of the Morning

Did you stay up last night to watch the eclipse? I did and for awhile the night sky was clear enough to see it.

Just starting

 

Not quite half way

 

Unfortunately, by the time it was in the blood red stage it had moved behind some wispy clouds and my camera wouldn't pick it up at all. At that time I gave up and went to bed.

  

  

Other news around the homestead. Dh has been hard at work getting his stage ready for it's debut. His music making friends are due to break it in on the 26th of April. We will be grilling hot dogs and hamburgers and I will make potato salad and we'll see what other food delights show up. Now if the weather will just be a real spring day without a lot of wind or rain everyone should have a good time.

 

I'm off to work in the quilt room. Have a couple of quilts to get made

and sent off in the mail. Happy Tax Day.

The Stage

Dh taught himself to play the guitar when he was a teenager. The song he learned first was Hang Down Your Head Tom Dooley. To this day his family have trouble listening to that song. However, that being said,  they love to hear him play. He has added banjo, and piano and is working on a couple of other things to play. So earlier this year he decided he was going to build a stage in the backyard where he and his like minded friends could sit on a summer's day and make some music. This weekend the work began.

He and our neighbor (a guitar player) started working. Then there was break time:

Then I was called out to take a picture of the progress on the stage. They still need a step, debating a roof or not and talking about painting it.

 

So it hasn't all been break time there has been work happening so they are down to the finishing touches and:

Break Time.

The Baptism.