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varropdx ([personal profile] varropdx) wrote2005-08-11 11:34 am

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Good weekend, even though I've been too busy lazy to post about it....

Saturday afternoon, Amy and I went to the Mt. Hood Jazz Festival, mostly to see Annette Lowman, a jazz singer I became acquainted with. Amy and Ms. Lowman have a sort of "Gift of the Magi" relationship - Amy envies Annette's voice, while Annette wishes she had Amy's hair. :) We chatted with her for a while and listened to the next band, then headed out.

Sunday was a day at the pool - Portland has a good public pool system, with clean (but not over-chlorinated) pools and lots of tubes and other water toys for kids and overgrown kids like us to use. However, I really need to work on my swimming - I won't drown, but I'm slow as hell. (And I always seem to swim breaststroke now FSR.)

Tonight is Fastball and Pinehurst Kids at Doug Fir....should be pretty good.

[identity profile] icecat.livejournal.com 2005-08-11 09:04 pm (UTC)(link)
How funny - my Fastball CD is in my car right now. :)

[identity profile] varro.livejournal.com 2005-08-12 10:58 pm (UTC)(link)
They have a new one out - didn't get it, but ended up standing 10 feet from the stage for the whole concert - among the songs they played was a cover of Thin Lizzy's "The Boys Are Back In Town" and a Beatles medley in the encore.

They still put on a really good show, even though they played to 100 people instead of several thousand...