Thursday, January 15, 2015

• Brisk, high clouds, breezy, temp: 44, high: 54. Today is suppose to be the end of the cool, rainy weather for a while.
• Men's breakfast at Taco Fiesta. About 25 attended.
• When we got home Dan had a very low tire that he & Jim got fixed.
• We drove up to WhatABurger for lunch.
• Then drove over to Lowe's to get a magnet to re-magnetize the refrigerator door. Leaving it open all Summer caused the door sealer (a magnet) to lose its magnetism. And thus not stay closed.
• By late afternoon, the sun came out. The temp was mid 50s. Nice. And much appreciated. Suppose to have warm pleasant weather for the next several days.
• Had a nice long phone call with my son, David, who's having back problems. It was good to get caught up on his news. Thanks, Dave.
• This evening I attended a concert performance of a group called Saxsational at the McAllen Convention Center Auditorium. Candy's Mom, Irene, didn't feel up to going, so she gave me her ticket. Thanks, Irene.
• Saxsational is the work of one man, Rob Verdi, whose full time job is performing daily at Disneyland. He is a very accomplished saxophone player. He has collected a variety of unusual saxophones and plays them all. Here are some of the unusual saxophones he played:
• Slide sax
• Bass sax
• Saxophinia
• Connosax
• Plastic also sax
• Contra Bass sax (6' long)
• I counted at least 9 different saxes he played during the concert. Everything from 1920s music to classical.
• Finally, today I have a special picture for you. It's a link to a webcam watching the construction of the new Vikings stadium. To view the webcam in full screen, click the little white rectangle in the lower right corner. Watching this webcam allows us to view construction progress, but more importantly, we are able to monitor snow depths.
• Here's the link: http://goo.gl/iqq0pr
• Enjoy!