What Can I Say?

Other than it was past 10 'o' clock on a Sunday night. My family and I somehow got onto the conversation of Benjamin Franklin's Armonica, and playing music on drinking glasses. With a bit of googling, dad found this amusing You-Tube. Enjoy!

~Caitlyn

Now this is my kind of instrument

For years I have been intrigued with Bowed Psalteries. I keep telling myself "someday you are going to get one." But until then, I shall enjoy listening to them. This recording was so beautiful to listen to that I just had to share it with y'all. :) Enjoy!





This next clip shows the Baritone Psaltery that I've been looking at (er, dreaming about I guess). I loved the deep notes.... :)



Sorry the whole screen isn't showing. Not sure why it's doing that...

~Caitlyn

This is Real. This is Life.

~Megan

This made me smile

I found this cute you-tube on a sheep breeder's website. If you're wondering, these sheep are called 'Jacobs' and interstingly enough, many of them have four horns instead of just two. :)

The title is "lambs popcorning"!




Here's slide show of some really nice looking, 4 horned Jacob sheep. I really like these sheep and have often thought about getting a few. :D






~Caitlyn

The Dashing White Sergeant

Here's one more clip of the Celtic Ball for y'all. :D This is my second favorite dance: The Dashing White Sergeant. Normally we do it to a CD and the dance is faster, but the musicians played it a little bit slower; which turned out fine because they played it a lot longer than the CD version!

~Caitlyn

another dance video

Here's another dance video for y'all. Although I can't remember what the name was.....Irish Lamentations perhaps?

~Caity

The Celtic ball

It's been two days since the ball..... And I still have one of the songs stuck in my head. :D

The ball was held at Grand Haven Elementary school in McMinnville, the grand ballroom was too small so the ball had to be hosted in the school gym. When I first walked into the gym a flood of color met my eyes. It was like stepping back in time seeing everbody's costumes. There was around 140 people there. 140 people in ONE room. I will admit it, when I saw all the people, I froze in terror. Believe it or not, I am claustrophobic around large groups of people. ;) But there was no time to be timid! The first dance was about to begin! The ball started at 7 p.m. and ended at 11:30 p.m. 4 1/2 hours of bliss! (Well, except for the large, scary group of people.)

My two favorite dances that we did were 'The Dashing White Sergeant' and 'Mary's Wedding' both are very fast and FUN!! I always feel bad for the guys during the Dashing White Sergeant because they never get a rest, they're constantly on the move! But they somehow manage to keep going. :D

I even got to dance with dad! Actually, I think he did three dances in all (ECD is highly addicting). Even more surprising is that my big brother, Chris, danced twice!!!!! I thought for sure I was seeing things when he asked one of my friends to dance. He did really well though. And both dad and Chris are coming with us to dance this Thursday! Hurray!

As you have probably noticed, there are no pictures on this post.....Not one so far. Sorry! But we were to busy dancing to take pictures. Dad however, got a lot of videos, so without further ado.....

This clip is Mary's Wedding; and the song that is playing during the dance is the one that is stuck in my head. Even during church it was ringing faintly! The dance only lasts about 3 minutes, but dad had the camera and was goofing around after it ended so that is why it has such a weird ending. :D The intro is pretty long but you can see that most of the dancers are tapping (or stomping) their feet to the beat.

And I really, truly am sorry if you have dial-up and my videos are making your computer as slow as molasses in January!! (am I the only person who has heard of that phrase?)

Okay, so this is the only clip right now because it took me an hour and a half to upload it. Maybe I'll try another tomorrow....

~Caity

How the South lost the war

Some friends showed us this youtube a while back and I just wanted to share it with y'all! Actually I've wanted to do this for a while now but I never knew how to get a youtube on my blog until now. I honestly don't see how the actors were able to keep such straight faces throughout the film! I hope you enjoy it as much as we did!!

~Caity