I heard someone run in the other end of the house ...
...thud - thud - thud - thud...
CRASH .... SMASH .... CRASH ....
...thud thud thud thud thud....By the time I got to the kitchen I saw my husband running faster than I have ever seen him run ever! - with the fire extinguisher.
and saw the riding lawn mower on fire.
Sorry folks, no pictures
I once worked with Kenny G, I was the guitar and keyboard tech ... and I haveto admit I was not the good at it. I learned some great lesson, I learned some new skills, and most of al I made some new friends.
Sadley one of them passed away last weekend. Boo Boo, rest in peace my friend, rest in peace.
See the press release below the fold ...
Drummer Bruce Carter dies at 49
"So solid" - He and other Portlanders formed Pleasure, a hit rhythm and blues act in the 1970s
Sunday, August 13, 2006
MARTY HUGHLEY
Bruce Carter, the drummer who helped make a group of Portland high school friends into a nationally successful 1970s rhythm and blues act named Pleasure, died Saturday morning. He was 49.
In later years, Carter toured with smooth-jazz superstar Kenny G.
The cause of death was not immediately determined, though Mark Young, the husband and manager of singer Linda Hornbuckle, said Carter collapsed of an apparent heart attack at his home and died shortly afterward at a Portland hospital. Carter recently had been playing with Hornbuckle's band.
Bruce Edward Carter Sr.
Wednesday, August 16, 2006
A service will be at 11 a.m. Monday, Aug. 21, 2006, in Vancouver Avenue First Baptist Church in Portland for Bruce Edward Carter Sr., who died Aug. 12 of a heart attack at age 49.
Mr. Carter was born Dec. 28, 1956, in Portland. He graduated from Grant High School. As a teenager, he formed the band Franchise, which later merged with another band to become Pleasure, a band that recorded several albums, toured nationally and had the 1979 hit song "Glide." After that band dissolved in 1981, he was a drummer for bands all over the world, including Cool'R, Cameo and Jeff Lorber, and was most recently known as "Boo Boo Carter" with Kenny G. In 1994, he married Esther M. Nicholas.
Survivors include his wife; son, Bruce Jr.; mother, Irelua Cunningham; and brother, Jimmy Jackson.
Remembrances to the Providence Medical Center Cardiac Care Unit. Arrangements by Rose City.
...well, actually it wasn't. It was a clear night with a very bright partial moon shining. As an added bonus, I got a meteror too!
UPDATE: This just goes to prove that even I can not get good seats to even my own events :-)
Happy Birthday to YOU,
Happy Birthday to YOU,
Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday,
Happy Birthday to YOU!!!!
Today my absolutely wonderful daughter is ONE!
