Feet up, coffee in hand

I am soooo glad to be home.  We had a gig as part of a big variety show today and I did the one thing I should never do.  Wore the wrong shoes.

I was cleaning out my shoe racks and noticed a pair of shoes at the back, I had forgotten I had.  Very pretty black ones.  Just the ones for today I thought. Put them on they were fine, very comfortable.

By the time I was ready to perform, they deliberately started squeezing my toes.  The show went for 2 hours and at the end my feet felt like they were in a vice.

Now I know why they were at the back of the cupboard.

We had great feedback from our audience.

In the first half the guys sing “When I’m 64″ and then we gals come on and sing Oob la Di  Oob la Da’; both songs of course are written  by The Beatles.

Owen and I sang our duet. ” I remember it well” from Gigi.  We were the last ones before interval.  Folks loved it.

After interval, we opened with our Fiddler on the Roof bracket.   The guys go on first singing “If I were a rich man”.  They are in black and wear the black hats and prayer shawls.  Then us gals come in peasant skirts and blouses with scarfs tied around our head and sing “Matchmaker” and then we finish with us all singing the beautiful “Sunrise Sunset.”  They crowd loved it.   I am so very proud of The Skylarkers.   We have such a great dynamic going on between us all.  It is the best it ever has been.

It has been raining a quite cold today, so Buddy, the Beagle, has been wrapped up most of the day.

He is very spoiled  but  very adorable.  He wraps himself up like that.

He goes around and around is circles until he gets his blankie just right.