October 6, 2008

Saturday was a Special Day

Saturday we watched the morning session of General Conference then we got in the van and drove to Prescott to drop Truman off at his Symphony retreat. (He reports that he played so much at the retreat that his "lips fell off" and he had to buy another pair) The rest of us went to a museum that was having a Folk Music Festival. They had different musical groups in every building and courtyard. We went to one that was a "musical Saw workshop". It was this guy who played a saw. He was funny. Someon asked if it was a special kind of saw, he said "nope this is just an old saw that was my dads. You could go buy a cheap saw at Home Depot." A lady said "do you have to grind the teeth off so you don't get cut?" He laughed "It's not as dangerous as you think." One guy wanted to know if a cross cut saw would work. Kenneth and Abby took a try at playing the saw, too.

Then at 5pm we found a church building. Kenneth and Christian went to the Priesthood session of conference, the other kids and I went to the Relief Society room to hang out. We watched a movie and worked on our needle work.

Truman's retreat wasn't over until 8:30 and we were done at the church at 7:30 so we wandered around at some stores. Here are the kids at Big Lots trying out the recliners.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Hi,

I came to your blog by googling "musical saw"... and I enjoyed reading about you guys. Congratulations to Kenneth and Abby for trying to play the saw!
I have a favor to ask, please: if you happen to see that saw teacher again, would you please give him my contact? I would like to invite him to the NYC Musical Saw Festival. If you want to see a video from the last festival (30 saw players participated!): http://sawlady.com/blog/?p=223

It was nice "meeting" you!
Thank you and all the best,

Saw Lady
www.SawLady.com