1. Leonard Oakland played two or three marches at the end of his classical music show this past Sunday. A day or two later, Preston Trombly played a march on his show.
I hadn't heard marches played on classical music radio before and it uplifted me.
Why?
Hearing these marches transported me back to when I was a youth and, through the Columbia Record Club, our family possessed an LP of marches called The New Andre Kostelanetz Wonderland of Sound: Star Spangled Marches.
From the time that album came through our front door on through high school, if I had the house to myself, from time to time I played these marches and would watch myself in a mirror we had in the living room conduct Kostelanetz's orchestra.
I loved playing marches in band, loved the baritone horn parts in these marches, and loved hearing them played on this LP.
So, hearing Leonard Oakland and Preston Trombly play marches on the radio made me wonder if our family still has the Star Spangled Marches in its possession.
I texted Carol, our family archivist, and she looked at the LPs archived in hers and Paul's basement and lo and behold, yes!, we have the album.
I don't have a turntable, though.
But, no need to mope around about that.
There's YouTube!
Someone uploaded this album being played, with the great pops and hisses our vinyl LPs made, on YouTube and it won't be long until I play the album, let it get me fired up, and, who knows? -- I might resurrect my orchestra conductor fantasy from when I was a boy and a teen!
Want to check it out? Here's the link: The New Andre Kostelanetz – Wonderland of Sound Star Spangled Marches
2. I like to file our income taxes as early as I can for no other reason than I don't enjoy having that task hovering over me when I put it off.
I dutifully started a Taxes 2025 folder and as each income report came in the mail, I put it in the folder.
But Debbie's W2 from the Kellogg School District never came, so earlier in the week, Debbie called the district office and I went over and picked up a copy of it.
So today I got them done and before long I got that most welcome message from both the federal government and Idaho's: Return Accepted.
3. Taxes filed, the two Bud Zeros I drank when Ed and I met at The Lounge were especially refreshing. It was a good hour at The Lounge. Seth and Cas were talking baseball when I arrived and I got in on a little bit of it. It was Wallace Day at The Lounge and so I got to yak a little with Rob Gillies and Don Beehner, baseball teammates from the American Legion days. Doug Y. wanted to know what was new in the Sunnyside neighborhood this week -- he asks me this on Fridays -- and I could only report that a logging truck that had spilled its load and was parked up by McDonald's on Wednesday.
I got caught up on the timetable for Ed's cancer treatment. He's getting close to having a pill treatment come to an end at the end of April. It's good news. This treatment has been effective and has been a source of ongoing discomfort for Ed. He continues to push through it, but it'll be good not to have to push himself when this therapy concludes.
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