Progress Report - March 1

Great Room
With help from my brother, Bill, and also Eric, Julia, Claire and Paul, we got the last shingle on and the scaffolding off the roof on February 17 at about 6:30pm.

We also got some of the windows installed.The next morning I picked up all the tools, boarded up the doors and we hit the road.


On the Road
Our first two performances were in New England, so we had got a northern send-off as we drove through a snowstorm in Connecticut on our way to Virginia. We had great shows in Richmond and Roanoke.

We try to take some time to see the sights when we are traveling. The Natural Bridge is amazing. We couldn't go under it because it was dropping icicles the day we were there. It took about three seconds for the ice to fall - about 190 feet if I remember my physics.

The Mountain View Restaurant in Buchanan, VA (I-81, exit 168) has good sandwiches at a reasonable price. The view is grand, too.





Going through North Carolina we booked into the Knights Inn. Here is the sign we found on the lobby door. The next morning we took the key back to the Days Inn lobby. It turns out that the Knights Inn lobby is open during the day so we had to return our key there. Does anybody else see the humor in this?

Florida Report
We've had our first concerts in Florida - SRO in Lecanto on Friday. We played at the NE Florida Scottish Games on Saturday. There was time in the schedule for Fred to enter the fiddle competition where he took the award for the Best Air.

Our first few days in Florida were balmy- in the 70's. Just now there is a cold front running through - 31° tonight and windy! We aren't complaining - everybody else on the east coast is getting snow, and lot's of it.