I'm just back from the Texas Toot, a week-long gathering for people who love to play early music. This means anything from the beginning of time until 1730 or so. We bring recorders, shawms, viols, lutes, krumhorns, etc. We have classes from experts, concerts and recitals. We go out to drink beer and play krumhorns, and we just have a good time in general.

The Toot is held on a college campus. You don't have to cook, wash dishes, clean house or drive for a week. It's my idea of a real vacation.

The Toot is held in Austin Texas in early June. It needs a few more people to attend. So if this interests you, mark your calendar to go to www.toot.org about next April and get all the details. ------------------ Modern Life Shock Horror

This year we had a kid along, a mere college student. I told him that he should blow into his recorder as if it were a pea shooter, and he replied, "What's that?"

WHAT IS MODERN KIDHOOD COMING TO?