Ready for Mammoth?

JULY 14-18, 2010: MAMMOTH LAKES, CA. 22nd Annual Mammoth Lakes Jazz Jubilee. Headquarters: The Holler. Guest Artist: Tom Hook. Featured Bands: Barnhart-Midiri Quartet, Bill Allred’s Classic J.B., Brady McKay’s Lounge Band, Cornet Chop Suey, Flashback, Gator Beat, Ivory & Gold, JAS’M, Jennifer Leitham Trio, Louis Ford & His New Orleans Jazz Flairs, Midiri Brothers Septet, P.B.&J., Side Street Strutters, Scott Martins Latin Soul, Sherri Colby’s New Orleans Racket Makers, Sue Palmer Motel Swing Orch., Pieter Meijers Quartet w/Banu Gibson & John Cocuzzi, Steve Lucky & His Rumba Bums, Temple of Folly w/Yve Evans, Terry Myers Big Band, Titan Hot Seven, Tom Hook w/Black Dogs, Tom Rigney & Flambeau, The Professors, Jazz Camp Youth Bands, Wally’s Warehouse Waifs, Kim Richmond Quartet, Karen Marguth/Jason Wanner Duo, ABC’s of Jazz. A.E. Badges: $85 until 3/15 then $90 until 5/15 then $95. Daily badges available at the gate. Contact Info: Mammoth Lakes Jazz Jubilee, PO Box 909, Mammoth Lakes, CA 93546-0909. 760-934-2478 or 877-MTN-JAZZ (877-686-5299). Email: mljj@qnet.com Website: http://www.mammothjazz.org/ Lodging: 800-367-6572.


On The Home Front

This is the final template -- for now, anyway. Mom and I agree that this one is pretty and makes us smile.

I don't know if it was necessary to order a "jumbo" flyer and bobbin in order to ply the two regular bobbins of spun yarn without knots, but I did it. They haven't arrived yet, but I'm hoping for later today, or tomorrow at the latest. In the meantime, I understand that it's good to let this sit for a day or two so the twist can "settle."

Today's mail did bring me a skein of handspun 3-ply yarn from an e-friend in Connecticut. I didn't get it to knit with, but to use as an example of how beautiful and consistent handspun can be. You would never know that this yarn didn't come off a machine -- it's gorgeous! In the package she also included a bag of roving to for spinning practice. It's a Coopworth/Shetland mix. I'm getting quite an education in sheep and their wool!

The weather is getting really hot, and it continuously surprises me that we're so far into the summer. I'm amazed that July starts later this week. It seems that just a couple of weeks ago the trees were getting new leaves and the flowers getting ready to bloom. We have roses, gardenias, azaleas, trumpet vine, lilacs, queen ann's lace, and some pretty yellow flowers whose name I don't remember, all blooming in the back yard. And in the field below us -- thousands of tumbleweeds. The rain we had this year brought them out, and the heat is now doing it's best to beat them down.

I think I'll sit by the fan and knit a little before dinner.