Category: dance

• hangar dance

  June 19, 2011

  beer, daily drivel, dance, entertainment, food & drink, music, My Darling B, O’Folks, play

  Did I mention we went dancing last night? We did. Friday was the night of the annual hangar dance at the airport. Our favorite local swing band, Ladies Must Swing, finagles an empty hangar away from whoever runs the airport, sets up some tables and plays music by Glenn Miller, Artie Shaw, Count Basie and Read.

• Thursday Night Group Dance

  July 16, 2010

  daily drivel, dance, entertainment, hobby, My Darling B, O’Folks, play, Seanster

  Sean was just game enough to go with us to our weekly group salsa class at Social Life last night. I’m not sure how much he was looking forward to it, but once we got him there and started cutting a rug he picked up quite a few good dance moves in just forty-five minutes! Read.

• Let The Unemployment Begin!

  July 2, 2010

  adventures in unemployment, bicycling, books, coffee, daily drivel, dance, entertainment, food & drink, hobby, My Darling B, My Glorious Air Force Career, O’Folks, play, restaurants, work

  Let the four-day weekend begin! Oh, wait … I’m unemployed, so it’s really more like an indefinite weekend. Well, whatever. I applied for unemployment first thing yesterday morning … or rather, it was first thing after doinking around on the internet for an hour, because I wasn’t sure I’d be able to do it until Read.

• promenade

  February 25, 2010

  dance, hobby, play

  When we push all the furniture in the living room to one side, it turns out we have almost enough room to practice our dance steps. Almost, but not quite. It would probably be enough room if we had a little more floor time under our belts, so we knew how to fit the dance Read.

• second dance lesson

  February 17, 2010

  dance, hobby, play

  Wow, dancing’s hard. Our instructor keeps impressing on us how easy it is, and I guess I have to agree with him. A Foxtrot two steps forward, on step to the side, bring your feet together, and keep repeating that for as long as the music continues. Really, you’d think anybody should be able to Read.

• first dancing lesson

  February 3, 2010

  dance, hobby, My Darling B, O’Folks, play

  Guess what we did last night? We went dancing! We’ve been saying for years that we wanted to take dancing lessons and last week B made a command decision and signed us up for an introductory lesson. We plunked down twenty-five bucks at a studio just north of here for forty-five minutes of private instruction Read.