My spirits seem to elevate when the weather warms and finally the weather has broken here in Georgia. Finally I don't have to don stocking cap and gloves, heavy coat and ear muffs to walk the pooch her 1.1 miles at 7:30 a.m. What's more baseball has begun, just when you've given up hope that the game will be played again. Right now the front porch, the walk, the car, the cartpaths are covered with yellow dust, and overactive effort of the pine trees to recreate themselves. It's a mess.

In a couple of weeks, April 18 were are having a local competition for music majors that will end in $25,000 in scholarships given to a dozen music majors for next fall. It has been fun, yet a lot of work to coordinate this process. I did the leg work which was probably worth $3-4K if you had to employ me, but the real work came from Randy who sprung for the $35K or so that it has taken to put on the whole thing. I hope the kids don't fold under pressure.