Seems I have been teaching a lot lately, a new piano student yesterday and a lesson in knitting a scarf - the ruffly kind - today!! LOVE IT!!
Who would have ever thought that my little Post Office contract station would offer piano lessons after hours!! I am not a "REAL" Post Office but do nearly everything that a real one does except put those little lines on the bottom of the letters. I don't have the official computer with that capability.
I have Post Office customers who wait around the corner to hear the end of my occasional practicing, with smiles on their faces! Many of my customers actually pickup their mail "after hours" on their way home from work. The Post Office is only open two hours 8 months of the year!! Leaves a bit of time for my practicing!!
We have had employees with small children; a box of blocks and coffee can of crayons are here to keep them occupied. We also deliver mail to shut-ins, Christmas Boxes after hours, and take mail down the hill for speedier delivery to its destination should the customer have missed the pickup time and I just happen to be going to the next major stop on the mail route!!
I was just telling my brother this afternoon that rolling that Everett piano into my little office / Post Office was one of the happier days of my life. The piano was my 8th or 9th Birthday present and it has "lived" in a cabin in the mountains of Colorado at 9,600 feet where I gave lessons, traveled across the country to Poughkeepsie NY, wasn't there long enough to acquire any students! To San Jose CA and seven years later to Strawberry CA where the piano tuner was able to give me its date of manufacture - by the serial number on the soundboard . We had seen its TWIN at a church in Fairplay CO; the tales those two instruments could tell I am sure!!
I manage to teach Sunday School at our little Methodist Church at least once a month. My OH MY! The roads I have traveled, and faces I have taught. Facebook connected me with one of the Benson girls that I had given piano lessons to 25 years ago!! She is now a teacher! And the beat goes on...thanks MOM and DAD for those piano lessons!
