Carleen and Mike » 2004 » April » 02 http://www.huggin.net/blog Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:05:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 en http://www.huggin.net/blog/2004/04/02/ http://www.huggin.net/blog/2004/04/02/#comments Sat, 03 Apr 2004 03:42:15 +0000 Mike Huxley http://www.huggin.net/blog/?p=132 Finally paid off the last bit of our income taxes this week. Whew! that feels better. if it weren’t for that, I’d have had a good portion of the gardening done by now. I’ve been drawing up plans in the mean time, and I think I have some pretty good ideas, though, since I have no real formal training in landscape design, I can’t really visualize the end product very well. But oh well, I’ll learn. And I really do feel like landscaping could be a very viable future career for me, after, as carleen puts it, “raising our children”.

My newest interest is the fiddle. It’s something I’ve wanted to learn for quite a long time, but only recently have decided to pursue it. I’ve been listening to a lot of Celtic Soul lately, so that got me thinking about it. However, I’m the type of person who starts hobbies, gets into them for about two weeks and then tires of them (guitar, harmonica, D&D, sword-fighting, etc….) . I sincerly hope this isn’t one of those, but if it is, I would like my initial investment to be as low as possible. So I’m looking for some cheap/used violins. If anyone knows where I can get one, please leave a comment or let me know. An interesting fact: many people believe that the violin and fiddle are two different instruments–they’re not. The difference is in the style of playing. Violin is more strict i.e. classical, orchestra, pop, while fiddle is more loose i.e. celtic, bluegrass, and country. I’m really interesting in learning Irish jigs and whatnot.

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