I want rhubarb. Growing up my mother had three awesome rhubarb plants in the back yard, and it appeared often in pie form on the dinner table. YUM.

All of erin and shrift's mushrooms can come to me. And I don't care what kingdom they belong to.

I am at that point again where enough stuff is past due and thus slipped off today's To Do list that it looks like I don't have a lot on my plate (this is my personal to do list, I manage my work life separately and differently). It sure seems like if I can notice that this is what I do I should be able to use that knowledge somehow. Haven't figured that part out.

People in NYC go see the linked exhibit of totally kick ass origami. I wish I could.

Woo hoo! on Mac's big move from 8th chair to 1st chair trombone.

-t - as second chair flute - did you double on piccolo? My niece is 2nd chair flute and she does.

British bookies are having a blast imagining total Federer family domination of Wimbledon: singles, men's doubles, women's doubles, mixed doubles. In 20 years time no one not named Federer will win any majors.

You know, or something.

There should be a law that says on the first warm, sunny day of the year everyone gets to take off work.

Ha on the Federer explosion!

First chair played piccolo when we needed it, sumi. Not a frequent occurrence. I can't even remember her name or I would look her up, see if she's a professional musician now.

There should be a law that says on the first warm, sunny day of the year everyone gets to take off work.

A Chicago friend of mine posted on FB this morning: "I didn't have to wear a coat when I left the house today!"

I went to the grocery store this morning, and when I walked out of the store at 9 a.m., from the extreme air conditioning of the store into the already-warm air outside, with the heat amplified by the blacktop, I thought "Oh, thank god. It finally feels like summer!" I am thrilled! (Of course, I also had to cave and put the a/c on at home, not so much because of the temperature -- although it's supposed to be 89 here today -- but because my allergies are trying to kill me, and for some reason my entire street is mowing their lawns this morning, so I can't keep the windows open any more.)

There should be a law that says on the first warm, sunny day of the year everyone gets to take off work.

I've been saying that for years! (And said it again the other day....)

A Chicago friend of mine posted on FB this morning: "I didn't have to wear a coat when I left the house today!"

Me neither!

It was nice!

And given that I was wearing my winter coat on May Day - a bit surprising.