Ellis has decided she wants to start band this year and that she wants to play trumpet.  She originally asked to play trombone, but we talked her down to a trumpet.

We found a guy on Craig’s List… an ex-band director who refurbishes instruments.  He has a little shop by my office.  He shined up one of his used trumpets and when I stopped by to pick it up, he threw in a couple of CD’s of his New Age trumpet music… popular in Europe he says.

Ellis loves her trumpet and can’t wait to toot her horn when she wakes up and as soon as she gets home from school.  People in the park might suspect it’s an elk bugling, but no… it’s Trumpet Lady.