Lots to do around the house today. My button accordion student will be here soon for his weekly lesson. Meanwhile I have twenty minutes or so to practice a couple new songs I’m learning – a jig called Come Haste to the Wedding and a lovely little polka called The Broken Reed Polka.

We have a fellow coming by later this morning to install a sink and bring water into Tuffy P’s studio, and someone else to do some duct cleaning. I have to assemble a futon frame upstairs in the music room. There’s also plenty of yard clean-up to do. I’m planning at least one new garden this year – a raised garden for a few veggies. I’ll have to get to that soon.

Our demented old cat Delia is obsessively walking back and forth in front of my computer screen as I type. She can entertain herself for some time pushing my buttons by doing this. In the last year or so, she’s become quite obsessive and more affectionate than she ever has been.

Tonight we’re going to see Swimming for the Shore at the Assembly Hall over at the Humber College campus down the street. This play debuted a decade ago and has been updated for this new production. It’s based on all sorts of stories about the history of our community. I’m really looking forward to seeing it.