This week involves an ever-increasing whirl of activity with little prospect of a respite. It's Spring Break for Humboldt State University. I was looking forward to an empty, quiet office where I could concentrate on relieving my desk of stacks of paper and much overdue filing. Not to be. Linnea's accordion which had been damaged somehow (we have no indication of how this happened - she hasn't touched it in 2 months since her shoulder surgery). I took a look inside to see if I could see what was wrong. We contacted accordion repair people locally, in Seattle, San Francisco and Salt Lake City. We finally found that the repair was a MAJOR undertaking and the only person to fix it who could get to it right away was in SLC. So Tuesday we drove to San Fran. Flew to SLC Wednesday morning. Took it to the accordion doctor. Got it fixed while shopping for a backup accordion. Had dinner with my dad, brother and nephew. Flew back Thursday morning to SF and drove home.

Now we are planning for the Arcata International Folk Dance Festival with much coming and going of musician friends and comrades.
No rest for now.