Hello Ohio, Goodbye

We are back home from Canada and so happy to be home. Reflecting on the whole thing, we had our good times and our bad times.

First the bad: We made a lot of money but we spent a lot of money- so we pretty much broke even. We also got stressed, overworked, and killed one of our cars.

The good: We have established ourselves as musicians! We both feel much more confident about our music and art, Amber is singing out louder and stronger. We wrote somewhere around 6 powerful folk songs that we are proud of and excited about. We have developed our own unique style. Amber has found a beer she likes - which is news because she hates beer - she discovered that she enjoys St. Andres Bohemian Style Lager. We also have new names - I'm Uni, and Amber is Indigo - these serve both as stage names and as names that we have given ourselves to signify our rebirth/growth as artists. I think most importantly, we left here feeling like amatuer kids "still learning" and came back real musicians and now since we feel that way, and put off that vibe we are automatically reguarded as such by others.

We have done a lot of visiting here in Ohio. Everyone is happy to visit with us but also no one is too excited to hear about our antics. Mansfield is still a drag, just like when we left. And it seems some family members wish I would get an engineering job and we would settle down, get a house, have a kid, white picket fence, etc. I don't think they quite understand us. Or want to. Whatever- we're quite happy in our bohemian-style instability. And even so it was nice to see everybody.

Oh and we also did a lot of visiting with Brandon. Such a cool kid. We always love talking to him.

The whole Canada thing also gave us a puh to want to go back to West Virginia, finally, where Lori and Robert have just bought a building. Long ago when we first heard their idea of buying a building, we were a little afraid and favored just vending out of a tent at festivals only, but we have since let go of those reservations and we are preparing to put everything into this. Now we will have a location in a building and tents so we can do both. We will all be living in the building, and working in the building, and playing in the building. So very fantastic!

Well as soon as we get our pay check we will be paying some bills and hitting the road again. West Virginia here we come!