Vocabulary Lesson

It's raining again as I listen to a recording of the evening of Baroque music we attended live at Harris Hall on July 19.  The AMFS records just about every performance and makes these recordings available to students for their review (and pleasure).  I dropped by the "dub" office today and requested a couple of CDs, one of which they had already dubbed so I'm listening to it now.  BTW, dubbing is the process of making a copy of a recording.

Today was more like the good old days of Aspen - very busy with a lot of running around.  I awoke with a nasty headache so popped a few ibuprofen, drank some OJ and a bit of coffee then forced myself to ride the bike into town to get bread.  Alas, there was no day-old bread available at 7:30 and the fresh stuff doesn't come out until after 10:00 am.  So I settled for some bagels, apple fritters, and a few other sweet pastries.  I made it back before anyone else was up for the day.

Abe had a nice viola lesson with Ms. Whitney at 9:00 and then a fantastic tennis lesson at 10:30.  While he was having his tennis lesson Dr. Carl and I found a place to park in town.  On a slow-news day I'll report on the system that is available in Aspen to pay for parking on the street.  We walked up to Wheeler Opera House where AMFS has a box office.  I got tickets for the opera (Verdi's Flagstaff), another concert, and the final opera of the season, West Side Story.  WSS will be performed three times and the two regular shows were already sold out.  The first of the three shows is a benefit program which sells tickets for $1000 per seat but thankfully there were some seats in the balcony which were offered for just a little bit more than the usual price.  I snagged five of those as I know the kids always like those gang fighting shows.

After we got the tickets we ambled down to the bakery and were able to get a couple of loaves of bread.  We picked up Abe and returned to the duplex.  While we were gone the girls accomplished some serious practicing - so I'm told.

We had some lunch then I took Jamuna and Ms. Nicolette up to the Aspen Middle School for Jamuna's lesson with Mr. Lilleslatten.  I think I mentioned that he is from Norway so we briefly discussed the recent tragedy there.  Above is a photo of the lesson-event.  Mr. L. conducts his lessons in the foreign language classroom.  Here also is a shot of a poster in the hall.

I believe the caption is "Oh No!  I forgot my homework!"



During Jamuna's lesson I went back to the dupe to get Maya.  She was having a theory lesson with Dr. Carl.  The kids always amaze their music teachers with their knowledge of music theory, thanks to these lessons with Carl.  Here's a shot of granny Maya in the midst of a lesson.

I then took Maya with me to collect Jamuna and Ms. Nic and then on up to the music school for a rehearsal with Ms. Tamara.  While Maya and Nic were there I drove Jamuna to her babysitting gig.  I had a few minutes so that is when I went to the dub office.

On my way back to the music school I drove past a property we looked at while Peter and Naila were here.  I learned a new word that is actually quite self-evident.  A property on which sits a house of no value to a buyer, when they really just want the land, is called a "scraper".  If you want the lot you buy it and scrape off the house.  Here's a photo of a scraper in Aspen.

Asking price:  $ 3,800,000  (yes, almost four MILLION).  No, I'm not joking.