Recent content by violajack

@Tom, I feel like that's directed at me. I fail to see what cellphone use has to do with driving, since I don't use it when I'm driving. When you were a parent of young children, did they ride rear facing and fall asleep on the way to day care in the morning? Did you drive them? Did you have...

Lack of sleep, being off the regular routine (non regular drop off parent is now the drop off parent), kids fall asleep and are completely silent, rear facing car seats look the same when you glance back whether or not a kid is in them, lots of these things compound and result in tragedy. But I...

Thanks everyone, it sounds like this might be less crazy than I thought. It's unfortunately also a very short driveway, maybe 16 ft, then sidewalk, then narrow street (depending on how many cars are parked), so not so much room to get things lined up, which is also why I thought of the trailer...

Unfortunately, it does also have a downward slope to it, not too severe, but more than I'd want to wrangle 3000lbs of trailer down. I'm not sure what the grade would be, but I'm sure we'd need breaks on the dolly, if not an actual motor. If everything were lined up properly when it's put in, it...

I'd love to get a good sized pop up for our family of 4 (soon to be 5), but there are no reasonable storage options around us. I'd love to be able to put it in my garage. Problem - it's an old house with a tiny door. I have never towed anything before and have zero practical trailer maneuvering...

Careful with this. Kids grow. Fast.

I was interested in the Rialta for a while, and even spent a good amount of time looking at Eurovans. I know someone who primarily works on Eurovans and he warned me that it's always when not if the transmission in the automatics will fail, and the heavier Rialta suffers even more. The Rialtas...

How fun! I had no idea they were just up the road in Petaluma. That might be within field trip distance for us.

Yes, that's the D7 I'm planning on going with if they can't quite get a good D. Since I'll be using it in the context of pieces in the key of G, a "sort of" D7 will fill the role of Dominant nicely. Ideally, any performing instrumental class should meet at least 3 times a week, or for a longer...

These kids just learned F. They struggle to go from C to F. We'd also need to have G before D would be useful in the context I need. I'm going to try G with them next class, but right now, they don't even all have F. Going G to D is an even bigger leap. I'm sure it'll be doable in the second...

Thanks! You guys are awesome. Sadly, I only get the kids for music once a week, 45 minutes. We've got 7 more classes before we have to pull off the winter program, so right now, we'll have to just go with whatever we can play on two, maybe three chords. I was hoping to have the ukes accompany...

*clicks link* Well, I'll just be over here reading ALL THE THINGS. The school is Hilldale in Daly City. I'd love to have a group come and play for the kids some time, or find a way for us to participate, or just be more involved in the larger community. I'm working my way through Ukuguides.com...

SF Bay Area. I have been bit hard by the Ukulele bug though. I just got my second tenor from Amazon today. On the camping front, I was hoping to set up my new (to us) Volvo XC90 with a hitch and get us out in a little pop-up or hybrid, but some unexpected extra repairs to the Volvo and some...

I have several conservatory degrees and play music professionally (see user name), and after a brief attempt at guitar, I have decided that 6 strings is too many strings. Kudos to all you guitar players out there. I recently got a new job that includes teaching ukulele to middle school kids. I...

My personal minimal experience with parenting children (4 year old and 2 year old boys). My 4 year old is a polite, quiet, inquisitive, observant, good natured child. I thought it was due to my attentive, responsive, parenting. Then I had the younger one. He literally came out screaming. He...