Orchid!
My Mom and Pop were both
born in Santa Cruz! Not too many people actually born and raised there. Mom was born in a little house on May Street. Pop's parents owned and ran a restaurant on the wharf. (NO not Stagnaro's, but Grand-dad was friends of the Stagnaro brothers, and I waitressed @ Stagnaro's while going to college) .... Grand Dad owned The Ideal Fish Restaurant .... which used to be in the middle of the wharf, not on the beach where it is now. He also owned the old Santa Cruz Hotel, downtown. This was before and during WWII.
I have many personal SC stories ... most of them rather ... ahem ... non-MB material. It was waaay back then ... in my wild hippie days ... or was that daze?
I was in Monterey last weekend at a convention..... unseasonably warm weather! No fog what-so-ever all weekend long .... and one speaker spoke of the immune system benefits that fun and laughter provide our bodies .... and driving back home to LaLa land .... I got to wondering .... "Hmmmm? What can I do to increase my fun quotient " ... and a uke just jumped into my head.
I am thinking if I play the uke and sing, I will possibly drive all the teens away .... now that's a real stress reducer! I am possibly the most non-Hawaiian looking woman on the planet.... but soooo what?
I did a web search, and the guitar center near me has a variety of ukes. I'm gonna start with a cheapie and see what fun I can get myself into.
Who knows, sister O .... maybe we can meet up on the wharf in Santa Cruz some day and together panhandle ourselves some "spare" change <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="images/icons/grin.gif" />
It's not a difficult instrument to learn, is it?
Pep
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