What an interesting posting! Got any photos on the internet anywhere? Sounds like you struck gold with that idea. How fortunate that you didn't chase off the first kids who hijacked your rig.

I just remembered a good recorder story. Anyone who hates cute kid stories should stop reading now.

Giving recorder lessons started when the middle child of my friends was 5 years old and really wanted to learn the recorder. I happened to mention to my friend that I was playing the recorder. Up until that time, I hadn't seen her very often since she started having kids. So, I got three recorders (the parents paid for them) and we got started.

Sometime later the mother told me that the girl in question was going out onto the patio with her recorder and she told her to stay inside with it. She replied that she wanted to go talk to the birds.