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Saw the birdhouses for this year's Birdhouse Thing (fundraiser for a local music school) on my way to the bookstore last night. This being Tennessee, there was a Johnny Cash house and one with "SEE ROCK CITY" emblazoned on the roof, but the one that delighted me most? Mary Mirabelli's "Hawkwarts" -- complete with oriental carpet and dragon-eggs in planters on either side of the fireplace. There's a photo at the site gallery (five up, three from the left) but it doesn't show off the detail. Alack.

Happened to be in Franklin when one of the church carillons started chiming out hymns. I recognized "Abide With Me," "Holy Holy Holy," "Joyful Joyful We Adore Thee," and "O God Our Help in Ages Past," and there were a couple more I didn't.

Sampling a sweet potato truffle at the Cocoa Tree.

Matchbox 20's cover of "Time After Time" (thanks, qe2!)

Vienna Teng's Harbor (downloadable from her website. Thanks to gramarye1971 and nsmom for introducing me to her work via "Eric's Song.")

John Hiatt and Freedy Johnston are damned good songwriters. (This is hardly news, of course, but I'd not tried to write out charts to their songs before now. Understanding the niftiness of a piece of music = excited mechaieh.)

Revenge of the Shoes, episode 3: the left sole of my red pumps fell completely off while I was sauntering around in Franklin. I might have been distraught if I'd paid more than $3 for them, but as things were, I just laughed my head off.

April income stream shaping up. Now to resume churning away at March's...