Drum and Tuba...

Spring band concert, me and about 12 other geezers , graduates of the Lufkin High School Band got to perform 4 numbers with the Symphonic Band at last night's concert. I think we had folks from the 50s, 70s and 80s take up their horns for this gig.

Here's me and Mary striking a pose in the band hall before the gig. Naturally the graduating seniors broke into the unoffical fight song, an old tune we played at football games and which was actually played at the old Dunbar high school in the days of segreation, "Striving."

Mary grabbed a set of cymbals and we both stood on chairs to jam together on that old spirit stirring song. My mother was there. She left quickly, claimed she did not see us doing that.

Anyway it was a lot of fun. I think me and Mary were both a little keyed up after the gig. We went and got yougerts, no sugar added for me, and I went home and wrote patient notes from the home health treatment I had done that afternoon and washed the dishes. Seems like not too many years ago I would have stayed up for two or three days after a night of playing on someone's front porch.

Guess you gotta go pro sometime.