The Guardian for this meeting was Lucinda Lavender. The comments are by Lucinda Lavender. I was expecting to be out hearing music but my request went in too late and it was not to be. Santoshima and I sat together...

Santoshima Resident: 's current display-name is "San".
Santoshima Resident: hi Luci
Lucinda Lavender: Hi Santoshima
Lucinda Lavender: I thought I would be out tonight but I am here instead
Lucinda Lavender: welcome:)
Santoshima Resident: hey! what happened?
Lucinda Lavender: too late to get a reservation
Santoshima Resident: drat
Santoshima Resident: another night?
Lucinda Lavender: yes
Lucinda Lavender: well perhaps on another night
Lucinda Lavender: depends on when the group will play again
Santoshima Resident: what music was it?
Lucinda Lavender: jazz group...a double bass player from my orchestra is in it
Santoshima Resident: ah
Lucinda Lavender: how has today been for you?
Santoshima Resident: very snowy and good
Santoshima Resident: how about for you?
Lucinda Lavender: yes! Same
Santoshima Resident: solstice aproacheth
Lucinda Lavender: wow yes
Lucinda Lavender: on the morrow
Santoshima Resident: yeah
Santoshima Resident: will mark it by lighting a candle
Santoshima Resident: (per usual, every night :)
Lucinda Lavender: :)
Lucinda Lavender: great
Santoshima Resident: particularly hibernating this year
Lucinda Lavender: today was sort of dark in the sky
Santoshima Resident: hmm
Lucinda Lavender: heavy clouds
Santoshima Resident: oh
Lucinda Lavender: dark ones
Lucinda Lavender: chickens did not want to come out of their coop
Lucinda Lavender: for a long time
Santoshima Resident: bright chickens
Lucinda Lavender: due to snow
Santoshima Resident: or
Santoshima Resident: rather
Santoshima Resident: they know what they know
Lucinda Lavender: exactly
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Santoshima Resident: do chickens still lay eggs when it's cold weather?
Lucinda Lavender: yes...they go through these times when they molt/loose feathers...and they do not seem to lay as much then but it does not seem to be about cold
Lucinda Lavender: weather
Santoshima Resident: i see
Lucinda Lavender: ours are laying more now than a few monthes ago
Lucinda Lavender: it is odd
Santoshima Resident: hmm
Santoshima Resident: what do you attribute that to?
Santoshima Resident: happy hens?
Lucinda Lavender: we could ask ms google...
Lucinda Lavender: I will see...
Santoshima Resident: we could
Lucinda Lavender: in nature chickens only laid in spring and summer.
Lucinda Lavender: chickens lay eggs to reproduce
Lucinda Lavender: those are the good seasons for rearing the young
Lucinda Lavender: shorter days slow the production
Lucinda Lavender: they need 14-16 hours of daylight to think it is spring
Santoshima Resident: oh
Santoshima Resident: like us!
Lucinda Lavender: adding the electric light helps to extend the laying
Santoshima Resident: are there lights in your hen's house?
Lucinda Lavender: Yes:))
Lucinda Lavender: on a timer
Santoshima Resident: ahh
Santoshima Resident: i see
Lucinda Lavender: just enough light to read a newpaper by the article says:)
Santoshima Resident: and a heater?
Lucinda Lavender: no heater there
Santoshima Resident: do they enjoy newspapers? jk
Lucinda Lavender: i wonder...a great thought
Santoshima Resident: hens seem as though small dinasaurs
Lucinda Lavender: ours do not have newspapers
Lucinda Lavender: yes I have heard they are related
Lucinda Lavender: dinos and chickens
Lucinda Lavender: why did the chicken cross the road?
Lucinda Lavender: to read the newpaper I guess
Santoshima Resident: was heading for an internet cafe
Lucinda Lavender: ah
Santoshima Resident: want to hear a bassist
Santoshima Resident: ?
Lucinda Lavender: sure!
Santoshima Resident: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFsVXdmwZoo
Lucinda Lavender: great
--BELL--

Santoshima Resident: another when you're ready:
Santoshima Resident: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhPlS_t15P4&list=TLx-wReQT1mKYNtlzSFcENgWYDyfZMbBom
Lucinda Lavender: cool!
Santoshima Resident: :)
Lucinda Lavender: i watched her speak somewhere about PBS and how she used to watch Mer Rogers...I think
Lucinda Lavender: some support there
Santoshima Resident: hmm
Santoshima Resident: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3_ljUHt69Q
Santoshima Resident: bright spark
Lucinda Lavender: truly...and interesting to listen to still listening to her speak about music education
Santoshima Resident: yes, me too
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Lucinda Lavender: interesting
Santoshima Resident: uhhmm
Lucinda Lavender: my mom... a cellist , spent lots of time practicing...alone for hours
Lucinda Lavender: and later in life she said...she wished she had been able to get a librarians degree too
Santoshima Resident: ah
Lucinda Lavender: she just remembering that
Lucinda Lavender: she loved books
Santoshima Resident: and libraries
Lucinda Lavender: as well
Lucinda Lavender: yes
Lucinda Lavender: but her favorite music was sting quartet I think
Lucinda Lavender: string
Santoshima Resident: yes, understood
Lucinda Lavender: her mother was a cellist too
Santoshima Resident: she learned from her mother?
Lucinda Lavender: hearing her mother's string quartet through the heater vent...convinced her...that wqas what she wanted to do
Santoshima Resident: ah
Lucinda Lavender: yes my grandma was her teacher till she was old enough to go to chicago and have a teacher as a teenager
Lucinda Lavender: grandma was a teacher in indiana...cello and piano
Santoshima Resident: family of musucians and educators
Lucinda Lavender: grandma traveled in theEarly 1900'S with the Chautauqua travelling groups...
Santoshima Resident: wow!
Lucinda Lavender: they came out west to this neighborhood even
Lucinda Lavender: she went home after several tours and started her family
Lucinda Lavender: just interesting
Santoshima Resident: yes, thank you!
Lucinda Lavender: 1910, 1912, AND 1914
Lucinda Lavender: She was part of a trio
Santoshima Resident: did they have a name?
Lucinda Lavender: Do not know...
Lucinda Lavender: they did go to Whidbey Island tho
Lucinda Lavender: have a picture somewhere of a steamer they travelled on and the cooking of a salmon
Lucinda Lavender: by the beach
Santoshima Resident: minstrel life
Lucinda Lavender: one of the original virginia slims my aunt used to say
Santoshima Resident: !
Lucinda Lavender: collaboration tho...that is the word that comes to mind
Lucinda Lavender: from Esperanza and my family history
Santoshima Resident: yes
Santoshima Resident: community
Lucinda Lavender: we learn so much from collaboration
Santoshima Resident: a pleasure to talk with you luci ~ good night :)
--BELL--

Lucinda Lavender: thanks...good rest to you:)
Santoshima Resident: you too!
Santoshima Resident: cheers
Lucinda Lavender: thanks!