I never posted these photos of folks jamming at the Elderly Instruments employee picnic. We went to the picnic on the way to the family camping trip, last Sunday. Then I was without internet connection for two days, and thus the delay.

You can tell folks are having a good deal of fun!!! In the first pic, from left to right, are Brian (seated at left), a fiddler I don’t know, and Stan Werbin, Brian’s boss and the man who convinced us we ***MUST*** go to the Midwest Ukulele Festival. And he was very, very right. Love that man. Nice to think the boss is cool, isn’t it? The second shot shows a gentleman from the repair shop whose name I don’t know, then Marisol and Arnold, who are in the band Clavel which plays at Altus, Brian, and Brandon who was in the band Hot Toe Mitty until they broke up very recently.

By the way, I found out the route for the parade on Saturday (tomorrow). It starts near Washington and Hillsdale (close to the old Greyhound station and the State Journal, I think). It heads north on Washington to Allegan (the street the Michigan National Tower is on). There it turns west on Allegan for one long block to Capitol, and then heads south on Capitol to Hillsdale.

It’s a pretty small route, really. I wonder if they chose the route because of all the construction downtown. I have never done this before but I just assumed it would go down Michigan Avenue past the Lugnuts (minor league baseball) stadium. What do I know, anyway??? I sure got that wrong.

Mom and her friend Fai will be coming to the parade. I hope I see them!!!

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