OK, I'm back, and I'm hopelessly behind, so I am not going to TRY to catch up

[bunrab]

We are really making progress now. We haven't had an offer on the house yet, but we're going full speed ahead nonetheless.

Our house

The RV we'll be renting We'll use this to drive from Austin to Baltimore, with 12 pets, 4 large musical instruments, and 4 computers. Yes, it's going to cost us over 2 grand to do this, but you tell me how else we'd safely move us and the aforementioned stuff - not stuff we can trust to a moving van or its minions, nor to any other shipping method, plus it means we won't have to look for motels. We have it reserved for June 13-18. Whee!!

landley and fadethecat came over yesterday evening; we had supper and then lurked around our house, where we have barely enough books left to lurk with. Fade and I talked crochet, which is a very dangerous addiction.

Okay, I have not read anybody's journals, and am far too far behind to catch up, so I am not going to try to read the last 2.5 weeks. If something really important happened to you that you want me to know about, reply me a link to the post about it. Otherwise, what I'm doing is I'm about to read the current 50 or so posts on my friends page and move forward from there.

Comments

String, Yarn and Stuff

[aminahfiddler.livejournal.com]

I found your site thru the motorcycle link.

I used to live in B'more. If you like to weave and stuff. I card weave, fingerloop braid, and knit. You're lucky there is a GREAT yarn store in Catonsville, MD. Oh crap now that name of the street....... (gotta love google) it's 75 Mellor Ave. It's kind of hidden away as every good yarn store should be. I guess you want the url it's Cloverhill Yarn (http://www.cloverhillyarn.com/)

By the way, how do you carry your insturment on the bike? I have a violin I haven't figured it out yet. I have hard saddle bags so that's not the answer. I ride a virago so on my back using a backpack didn't work either.

Re: String, Yarn and Stuff

[bunrab.livejournal.com]

Aha! Catonsville is actually the top of our list of which place we're planning on looking for a house in already; this just gives me one more reason to look there!!

The case for my tenor sax has attachment loops for a shoulder strap; what I do is attach TWO shoulder straps, and wear it like a tall vertical backpack. It's not super-comfortable, but it's OK for half an hour. I have never tried carrying the bari sax on the bike, and probably never will; I get a ride to rehearsal in a car when I am using that sucker. One of the baritone horn players in our band built a custom luggage box on his Harley that exactly holds his horn case. It's a little odd looking but it works quite well for him.

I played violin for about 20 years before giving up on it. There is not really a good way to carry a string instrument on a bike. The amount of vibration does odd things to it - loosens the bridge; gets it so out of tune it takes forever to get it back in tune. Even the bow doesn't like bikes. Perhaps if you had a custom foam padded case - but then it would be even bigger, and more awkward to try and carry. But if you were going to try, the tall upright backpack method is what I tried on the violin, before deciding to stick to public transportation: bus and trolley.