I'm all by myself since my wife and kids left to visit in CT for a few days. It was a warm, sunny day and I spent it cleaning up my barn, making trips to the dump and generally organizing things to make life easier in my working world. It’s quiet without my little ones around and whereas it’s nice to catch my breath I miss them just the same. I would never have been able to get as much accomplished had they been around though.

The trees here are just beginning to bud and it won’t be long before they start producing the leaves that put the green in the Green Mountain State. I drove over to Keene, NH. to go to the bookstore and to pick up sundries for the coming week. They were having a sale on classical music and although I don’t really listen to classical much I did want to get something from Sergei Rachmaninoff. I bought two cds and I am listening to Adagio Sostenuto right now as I type this. It’s such a beautiful melody and it suits my mood at the moment perfectly. It’s funny, Eric Carmen wrote lyrics for this piece originally composed by Rachmaninoff and I believe it went to number one many years ago. Adagio Sostenuto was the original music although you may have heard it called… “All By Myself”.