Sage in Commercial

Sage was just in NY regional theater's production of 'A Christmas Story' (You'll shoot your eye out!). This is a commerical for a future play at GEVA. Based on a true story of a 'haunted' house in upstate NY.
Steve

Sage at the Iridium with Les Paul

We're home...for a while...Sage sang at the Iridium in NYC....with Les Paul and Barry Leavitt Trio...

Sage at the Fair

We're back for less than a month and Sage is singing where ever she can. Here she is singing 'Gimme Gimme' from 'Gypsy' I think..... at the county fair...winning first place... under the bigtop complete with truck in the background....wearing a wig and dressed like a flapper...off to the NY state fair next month!

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Wood workers

There is an effort in the remote villages of Central America to provide folks with skills with which they can support themselves. Besides subsistance farming, many Ticos have learned to make items that are sold to the tourists. There are looms and quiltshops, candle shops and cheese factories. We met a fellow, whose nickname is 'Leache', who turns out these beautiful wooden bowls. The artisans use only 'scrap' wood from sustainable tree growth forests. Quinn and I both took a turn at the lathe. Rowan wants Quinn to make him a chess set from rosewood....Dad wants a lathe.

Marimba at the Feria

Hola!
Every Sabado now there is a agriferia...like a farmers market. Its inside the schools 'gym'...this week they had this cool marimba...beautifully made...and sounds great. Dad wants one.
Ciao for now,
Forest
check out the tico dancers....party!!!! at the farmer's market?

Mom Visits the Magic Strangler Fig

One of the first things we wanted to show Mom was this Fig tree. Sunday AM we went early to beat the rain...which now starts everyday at around 1:00 and continues into the night until the next AM.
Here Sage is up in the Crow's Nest...'One hand for you and one hand for the boat'....

she's hanging on but still seems to be in competition for the Darwin Award. Speaking of Darwin, I'll have to post a picture of the 'kissing bug' responsible for Darwin's Disease.

Going Down the Tube (the inside of the Fig Tree)

Shake those shoes out!

So this is why Dad asks us to shake our shoes out....its becoming a habit. Rowan did find a squished scorpion in his sneaker. If you don't shake it out....the put in on quickly?

Ciao for Now....

Forest