Finally I’m organizing things here in my condo.

The big job will be the cleaning out of my garage. Handyman Rick will teardown the half wall which is in front of my golf cart. The workbench and several of the old cabinets will go to the dump.

I’m having a new friend, Todd Byers, detail my car. He’ll take some of the junk and a cabinet.

One thing that concerns me when thinking of bad storms, is the possibility that heavy rain could come across my lanai and sneak under my front door. Several times it’s come close, but never made it into my great room. (A couple times it was within inches.)

Today I bought four re-useable flood barriers for my door. They look like pillows but act like sandbags. They are sandless. Hope I won’t need to use them but for $18.99 I’ll be prepared!

Back in 1991, John and I joined the hammered dulcimer community. John built his first dulcimer and we bought one (John Kelly was the builder). For several years John had been mesmerized by the music produced by a fellow named Mike Berst who would come to Saginaw events and make awesome sounds with his hammered dulcimer. Mike told John about an event in Evert, MI… the Original Dulcimer Players Club Funfest (aka ODPC).

Friday I was asked to help with an article for the ODPC’s newsletter. I included a comment that a “busker” introduced us to dulcimer music. I have tried for several days to come up with his name and it finally came to me. It was Mike Berst.