"Home on the Grange"

Wow! We had WAY more fun at the Kal Paddy Productions (yes, it's a pun on cow patty) taping of "Home on the Grange" yesterday at the Lewis Grange northwest of Cortez. Folks from around the western part of the county got together to do this funky stage show and record it for later play and as a sale item on CDs. I can't even remember what the benefit is ... doesn't matter; it was a hoot!

It was a beautiful spring Saturday afternoon, so kids could play outside when they weren't part of the audience. As you can see, the Lewis Grange is an unpretentious block building in a little rural crossroads community. People of all ages were in the cast and band, and the audience responded appropriately to the cue cards, even upside down (the hard one was to sound like mollusks!).

During the potluck after the play was recorded, there was live music ... sort of a jam session, with whoever wanted sitting in, led by the tall wild man in the corner with the sunglasses and cowboy hat.

One of the sweetest things, for me, though, was the song by the Lindells with two young players sitting in. Chris and Kim are really good musicians, very popular in the region and very giving of their considerable talents for benefit causes. What a treat it must have been for the young lady on the violin and the young man on the mouth harp to sit in with such accomplished musicians and perform for their audience of family and friends! And Chris and Kim were SO supportive of them, stepping back from time to time to let the young people be featured (with an old dog standing in the middle of the group).

When they do it again this fall, we'll definitely be back if we can! tv