Transition

Lots of things going on...  I finished up at the music studio in lae May.  It was predictably, over-emotional saying good-bye to 30+ students and their parents, which actually had been happening for weeks.  What was really hard was having a beginning voice teacher sit in on lessons for a week.    I have several students who are in a tricky stage technically and I have already seen a decline in one that I gave up a month ago (breath control).  Still, I have to let that go and move on. 
Now I am in the process of submitting a bid for the temporary position I have been occupying for the last couple of months.  It is a big process and I hope to be done with it tomorrow except for the typing test.

Postscript:  I have the position permanently now and am extremely happy with it.  I am slowly starting to meet the others who are in similar positions within the company and they are very welcoming.  The certification test is similar to any pre-professional test, but contains a lot of info that I won't use, but also will come with a generous raise, so it will be well worth the effort.  Seem like I have been studying hard the last five years, building those new brain connections!

The snow melted awfully fast.  There is a word for it where it swirls and disappears especially on the highway.  We did not have any of the flooding problems that all expected, thankfully.  Summer did take a very long time to get here and we have had more than our share of rainy, cloudy, cool days. 

Still, most of the rest of the country is suffering with triple-digit heat and humidity and I would rather have this. 

4th of July will be quiet.  One sister is back East, the other always entertains her mother-in-law on that day.  The lad will be off the day before as will I, so that's when we will celebrate, probably with a BBQ. 

A friend gave us a silver and the lad smoked it on the grill and it came out great!