I've spent so much time on the 'Cat reading threads form end to end daily, and contributing a few songs to the challenges, that it seems like an awfully long time, but I joined only a few months ago after a very brief trial 'guesthood'.

I'm in Westchester County, NY -- the PO says we're in Bronxville, we 're closest to Tuckahoe, but the tax man says we're in Yonkers ("Next to the Greatest City in the World").

I've been plinking at a guitar forever, on a banjo almost as long, and squeeking on a tin whistle for a while -- and all without any signs of progress or self-confidence enough to go out in public. But I'm not shy about singing out, in groups or alone unaccompanied, and will tonight at the Pinewoods FC Riverdale Sing. I may take along the Jew's Harp that I resurrected from the back of a drawer, to see how tolerant they are.