Nothing new and super exciting to report on the bagpiping front.  Due to colds, work and allergies I haven't been piping much, or even practicing on my chanter these days.  I did manage to get about 30 minutes in on Wednesday on the ferry ride over to Orcas, and another 30 minutes on the ferry ride over to Lopez for my weekly Friday lesson.

Even so, I didn't suck as bad as I thought I would.  Definitely didn't make huge strides forward in my progress but I didn't really go in reverse either! 

My doublings are getting crushed, and I'm doing a funny little G gracenote when I doing a B or D grace, so it is like a GD or GB grace, which is just not right.  Sigh, time to get out my McGillivray "Rhythmic Fingerwork" book and work those into submission.

I contacted Chris Apps about the reeds I purchased a couple weeks ago, they said no problem on returning them for stronger reeds, which is great since the reeds I got were way to easy.  No sense in trying to play a super easy reed just as it doesn't make sense to play a super hard reed, it just isn't worth it!

The good weather and longer days is great!  The flip side is that the tree pollen is just a killer on my allergies, ugh.  Once the trees are done, then I get to suffer through the grasses, and then what is next?  Maybe mold spores in the fall?  Bleah.

Monday I have my 2nd lesson with Jori Chisholm, I missed last week because I came down with my daughters cold.  I'll practice a bit on my doublings tonight, work on the new tune for about 30 minutes and then head down to Seattle Monday morning to hook up with Jori.