What inspired me to start playing was having seen my husband
start his journey when he was about 60 years old.
But I had this vision of playing with him.
I wanted to,
to be able to sit around at night and just talk
guitar. My biggest problems that I run into are time,
you know,
when I retired,
I had this vision of lazy days and sleeping in and,
and having all the time in the world to do everything
I want.
The reality is I'm babysitting four days a week.
Active kids.
They're young,
a year and a half,
and three and a half.
So my time is not my own.
I can't just pick up the guitar and noodle away or
take a lesson.
I like that tack can be available to me anytime,
anywhere I can start something,
I can put it aside and pick it back up.
My teacher's there 24 7,
even if it's the middle of the night.
One of the best moments I've had so far in doing
this, we used to go to an open mic.
It was the New Leaf Cafe and it was,
you know,
every Thursday.
It was great.
And then manage new management,
took it over and they were shutting down the open mic
component, Which was sad the last night of the open mic.
Everybody was there,
you know,
we had people who hadn't been there in a while come
back in just to kind of say goodbye to the place.
But it was the,
it was the realization of why I had started this.
Because that night I went up on stage with Dom and
we played together.
We played Beautiful Boy,
which we'd been practicing a little,
but it was just so fulfilling to be able to,
to play with him on that last day of the New
Leaf Club Open mic.
And I don't know,
it just meant a lot to me.
I, I'm looking forward to growing old,
growing old with my guitar and my husband.
I.