The wildlife here is sort of getting used to musical intrusion. The deer peek out of the trees at the spring and gaze at the house with that blank deer look that leads me to belive my playing is just short of the noise made by an oncoming truck....

The younger cat dearly loves the piano, and will snooze on top when I play. She's quite fond of Chopin and will purr along. The older cat is as patient as a cat can be with my learning guitar. He will jump up to wherever I am sitting and rub along the neck of the guitar (hell for keeping in tune) then he'll lay and listen. It's funny, but if I work on one piece for something he determines is too long a time, he'll start to swat my notebook and turn the pages. (enough of this...isn't there anything else in here??)

The dog, he really is more of a bodhisattva than a dog, is a musical nut. He'll lay, crossing his front paws and watching the proceedings before being lulled to sleep. What he likes best is to 'help'. Typical syncophantic dog behaviour, I know, but it is so damn cute, I can't help but encourage him. His most recent favourite is to sing back-up. Truly hilarious, he does a rather fine job with 'Proud Mary', complete with cartwheels. I'm thinking of taking it on the road...*g*