Quite the busy weekend but we made it. Knutes was a good time – wasn’t super busy but the crowd was steady and I think everyone had fun. About 2 songs in, Bob noticed the overhead vent was leaking on his drums. We had to move things around and a couple of guys taped some plastic over the leak. Water leaking on your equipment is not a good thing, but it got taken care of and we finished the night without any other problems. Cyndi and I played a party at the Milton Senior Living Center on Saturday afternoon that went very well. We did our oldies, some jazz standards and even a few cowboy tunes that had the place singing along. It was a good time and something I’d do again. Time Out was a good for us. The room has nice acoustics and people were commenting on how well the band sounded. The combination of low ceiling, acoustic tile, and Tim made it all work. It seems that the downtown bars fill up close to bar time and Saturday was no exception as we had the largest crowd on our last set. Of course, the path to load the equipment was right through the crowd, so getting out of there took a while. All said, it was a nice place and I hope it’s a regular job for us. Thanks to Doug and Deb Brookins for stopping out and to Karen for celebrating her birthday with us. I hope she made her walk Sunday morning! Then came Sunday….We were scheduled to play two hours – 5:30 to 7:30 which would have been fine given we’d already played Friday and Saturday. Then the story was that there no band after us, which meant going to 9:30. I planned things out to quit at 9:30, which would have been good as the voice fatigue was starting to show, and we were running out of songs. Then the bar wanted us to play to 11:00 to keep the crowd there. I had already planned to take Monday off, so we repeated a few and somehow made it to 11:00. We were tired and having trouble hearing ourselves. That, combined the confusion over the hours, had us a little frustrated, but we got through it. The 1st half of the night was fine and the band did well, but we were not quite up to par on the last half, which was a disappointing way to end a busy weekend. But I did enjoy seeing a lot of friends and fellow musicians. I think every musician in town was there, which is why you want to be on your best game. I guess we’ll know better next time. All said and done, and in the big picture, it was a good weekend. There’s some time to heal and regroup as we’re off until Crazyhorse on Sunday. Hard to believe it’s already September – where’d the summer go? See you at Crazyhorse!