I had no idea what Marimba was and must say that the 10 minutes it took you to upload the concert video was 1000% worth it for this reader! How special. Also that performance room has the craziest blind situation I have ever seen, vertical, horizontal, it has it all!
[As an aside - I love asides when I comment - ever since I started touring assisted living/nursing homes, I wondered if there was a better way to do it. I really like the place my mom is in now, but it's not the most innovative set-up. However, they do have dogs that live there full-time who wonder the halls in search of food and gentle petting, bird cages with happy chirping birds on every floor, several fish tanks and even guinea pigs. Animals seem like a step in the right direction....]
Wow that sounds amazing. This place could definitely use more animals. Lot of individual pets, but nothing communal. A communal cockatoo or two would really improve things! And I didn't even notice the blinds you're right they are a LOT.
There's an old private airfield not far from there but.. also kinda far? It's a mystery. But I suspect years ago they could have been wheeled there from that field (Philips Field) and now they are just sitting there. It's not an unusual site there are a lot of old planes just laying around in Fairbanks, rotting away.
I would be very into sitting at a bar, staring at two DC-3's. Also: "Friends you’ve known for fifty years all around you" - amazing.
I had no idea what Marimba was and must say that the 10 minutes it took you to upload the concert video was 1000% worth it for this reader! How special. Also that performance room has the craziest blind situation I have ever seen, vertical, horizontal, it has it all!
[As an aside - I love asides when I comment - ever since I started touring assisted living/nursing homes, I wondered if there was a better way to do it. I really like the place my mom is in now, but it's not the most innovative set-up. However, they do have dogs that live there full-time who wonder the halls in search of food and gentle petting, bird cages with happy chirping birds on every floor, several fish tanks and even guinea pigs. Animals seem like a step in the right direction....]
Wow that sounds amazing. This place could definitely use more animals. Lot of individual pets, but nothing communal. A communal cockatoo or two would really improve things! And I didn't even notice the blinds you're right they are a LOT.
I need the backstory of the two planes just sitting by the river??
I made you a mp but alas I can't upload it.
There's an old private airfield not far from there but.. also kinda far? It's a mystery. But I suspect years ago they could have been wheeled there from that field (Philips Field) and now they are just sitting there. It's not an unusual site there are a lot of old planes just laying around in Fairbanks, rotting away.
What a great and wonderfully told story. Thanks so much Rick.
Thank you!