(I will learn how to do screen shots soon…) I used to go into Uvalde all the time to shop - the AT&T store, hardware and paint stores, Walmart, a good feed store, an HEB, a good hair and nails place…I never go there any more. This happened on March 24th/23 (UL-N photo) on the Highway 90/southern pacific rail line on the way into Uvalde. this is the main square of Uvalde, and courthouse, this is where the memorial for the massacred children was set up. The occasion a speeding van full of illegals, mainly Hondurans, gunned it right through town and ended up crashing into several other cars. This entry was posted in News on Apby admin. Sometimes they forget to tell me or pastor John has a new song unidentified as to key and so I go tentatively through on or the other trying to find the key. It is the nature of pennywhistles that they play in only one key at a time so you have to have one for each key. The C whistle has a purple ribbon, the D whistle a yellow ribbon, A has no ribbon, the B-flat is the only metal whistle I have, and the G is so big there’s no mistaking it. The ribbons are for quick identification. Scares like that are not good for your blood pressure. The vase had tipped over and was spilling its blue glass beads, sounding exactly like a rattlesnake. I pulled over to the side and the rattling got worse.

I thought “Good God there’s a snake in this truck!” I turned a corner and heard the most alarming rattling.

So I had the tall wooden vase in the front seat floor passenger side. This song is in G’ and I can just fetch it out and start tootling. So I keep my whistles in a wooden tall vase with blue glass beads in it to weigh it down (picture above with Mason Jar so blue glass beads can be seen) when we perform, so they’re sitting there beside the mike ready for when Mark or Kim lean over and say ‘Get your G whistle.

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