Music and guns

I went to the Department of Fish and Wildlife to get my fishing license. I was told that because I haven't lived in Oregon for six months, I have to get a non-resident fishing license. Non-resident licenses cost 2.5 times as as much as resident ones.

While I was there, I decided to get a hunting license as well, my thinking being; you only really need to shoot one deer or bear or whatever to provide enough meat for a whole year.

This is the hunting gun I bought at Wal-Mart. I had a coupon, so they gave me a whole bunch of bullets too.

On Saturday we had band practice. The band has been formed to perform at the Northwest Service Symposium in Portland, Oregon. The Symposium showcases artwork, poetry & music of Americorps members serving throughout the northwest. Our ensemble will be presenting a musical revue/operetta/performance consisting of three acts/songs. The songs are Weeping Willow (David; guitar, and vocals, Lupita; vocals, tambourine, and whistle, Adrienne; cello, and vocals, Me; melodica, and vocals), Poverty Can't Step To Me (a rap song with me rapping to some sweet beats I made), and finally, 501(c)3 Can You C Me (an acapella number with all of us singing). The resulting performance will be awesome, amazing, and moving.

Oh, we've got trouble

This is a picture of the copy of The Music Man that I got in Seattle.

I walked to city hall where I had heard there was a rummage sale going down. I couldn't find the sale, so I started walking toward the spot I had heard another rummage sale was happening. On my way there I ran into Lupita's neighbor Margaret. Margaret took me back to Lupita's, where I found Lupita and Justin drinking beer on the porch. We went to the rummage sale that I hadn't been able to find initially. I bought a Carpenters record. We continued to the next rummage sale and ran into Maggie and Haley. Maggie got a lawn chair and a barbecue, I got a Survivor tape.

Around the corner we stopped at a thrift store. I bought this organ. This organ did cost more than $5, but this one lights up. I now own two organs, and officially own too much stuff. This organ doesn't fit in my car, so I think I officially need a truck.

After taking the organ home we went back to drinking beer on the porch.

It was Saint Patrick's day, hence the green headband.

At this point it was about one in the afternoon.

Lupita's cat caught a gardener snake. We took the snake away from her cat and put it on the hill behind her apartment.

Her cat brought the snake back a minute or so later.

Later we went to Adams house for green themed drinks etc. No corn beef or cabbage was consumed. I can't recall any IRA jokes being made, we at least did not drink any car bombs. We did not end up drinking to support the handicapped.

I heart nature

It gets very dark here in Roseburg.

I have been practicing my melodica playing using a "learn to play piano in 10 steps" book I got at the library. It's mostly a good book except some of the songs really don't translate well to beginner melodica, e.g. Twinkle Twinkle Little Star totally sucks to play on melodica.

In case you are un-familiar with the melodica, aka pocket piano, blow accordion, melodeon, diamonica, melodyhorn, wind piano, keyboard harmonica, pianica, cassotto, I will give a short description (that has mostly been taken from the melodic.com website). The Wind Piano can be described as a free reed system with a mouthpiece, air chamber, and keyboard. It sounds very much like a keyboard harmonica (although it is a tad more difficult to bend notes on it as you are further from the reeds) and it produces sound only exhaling into not inhaling. When played polyphonic (more than one note at a time) the instrument can sound very reminiscent of an accordion. (I mostly just like the part whetre they go through the other names given to the melodica. Anyway, right now I'm learning Rain Drops Keep Fallin' on My Head, it's going moderately.

This, as you may have guessed, is my awesome car, soon to be the theme of a similarly tittled blog.

I ran into Maggie & David at the drug store. Luckily they got there shortly after the part when I was smelling all of the sented candles.

We all went for a hike in the woods.

It is still pretty cold in the woods. I wish I had brought my hat.

Although I have never thought of myself as an outdoorsy type, I do like to believe I have an appreciation for the out-of-doors. I bellieve this is what is refered to as flora.

We walked down to the water, sans trail. I think we destroyed several ecosystems.

This may be a place for me to fish at some point. There are allot of places where you can watch salmon "run" (I think thats what it's called). I figure if you can see the fishes, it probably makes them easier to catch.

I fell in the water and it was pretty cold.

This was Super Bowl Sunday. Go Bears...