I'm wearing purple today also. Voted this morning. We have some local city council positions to fill and I really wanted to get my choices in. After that I took my dad's violin to a local luthier to give me his opinion on condition and value. It is at least 100 years old. I didn't expect it to be valuable because my dad played this in a grade school orchestra and the family had no money so I know it wasn't some rare find. The kind man seemed happy to see a violin that old in such fine condition. He said it would take very little to get in playable condition. I had been thinking of just getting rid of it, but since it's in such good condition and of course because it was my dad's, I am going to keep it for sure. Violin is a difficult instrument to learn so that likely won't happen for me, but I'm glad that I have been a good steward for it and hope to continue in that role.

Thanks, Elizabeth! I had a young bear at my bird feeder. Needless to say, I took the feeders down. But they are beautiful creatures.

I just read a silly yellow book that made me giggle.

Picture from 1942. My uncle who served during the war. His nieces and nephews surround him. Of course I did not take this. I am the smallest one in the group.