The last few days have been interesting, and I only picked up on the theme today – it has been a week of finding things
I ended my last post talking about finding what appeared to be chicken eggs in my yard. Over the weekend, I managed to solve the mystery. By happenstance on Saturday I reached out to our band’s bass player to see if he wanted to grab a drink together. He agreed and we met later in the day. We were chit-chatting about this and that, and I mentioned that I found these eggs in the yard. There was a pause, he laughed, and he said “That was me!” I said, “That was NOT you!” Well, after a few back and forths of that, he explained what happened. He had come by last week to pick up his amp, when I wasn’t home. Earlier that day, he was helping a friend with something, and the friend gave him some eggs. On the way to my house he did a ‘short stop’ and some of the eggs flew around his car and broke. When he got to my house he took them out of his car to clean it up a bit. And then he forgot to put them back. I guess it took me a couple days to notice them. Mystery solved! I am very glad it wasn’t raccoons!
Also on Saturday, I found a sock that had been missing for at least a year. Yay!
And also on Saturday, I found a cassette tape that I have been searching for, around the house, off and on, for years. I bought the tape in London in 1980 and have been unable to find that exact recording anywhere online. I am lucky to have a friend who can transfer the tape to CD – he did two for me already – one a tape by Sylvester (Do You Wanna Funk With Me?) that I also bought in London in 1980, and the other the soundtrack to the movie Breakin’ that I bought in Wilmington, NC probably in 1984. You can make fun of me all you want – this is some seriously good music! 😉
Anyway, the most recent found tape is by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. I love the song “White Lines” and the version on the tape is awesome!
I can’t tell you how excited I am to have found this tape. And I wasn’t even looking for it – I was just cleaning out some junk in my spare room!
I hope the theme of ‘found things’ continues. It’s such a nice feeling.
Talk to you later