Barbara J. Hamby

Monthly Musical

I’ve missed the free monthly musical programs here in King City the last few months just because I haven’t been paying attention. Our T.O.P.S. club was invited to prepare and serve refreshments at the program that took place this morning, so I couldn’t forget about it. I had to be there.

The main performer, Elena Ferguson Sheldon, is a singer I’ve seen several times before—here in King City and at Eldorado Villas, the mobile home park where I lived before. She is a young country singer/songwriter who’s starting to make it big in Nashville. She does a great impersonation of Patsy Cline and did a couple of her songs today. She also sang two songs she wrote herself.

She was an ideal choice for introducing T.O.P.S. club. When I first saw her, she weighed well over 200 pounds and she’s probably lost nearly 100, by adopting healthy eating and doing regular exercise. Her recording company wants her to lose another 30 or 40 pounds. I think she looks great now, but that’s show biz.

I went to her Facebook page when I got home and found numerous pictures of her at various sizes. I also was able to listen to her sing a number of songs, including Crazy, probably my favorite of Patsy Cline’s repertoire. I sent her a thank you note on Facebook and she replied. According to her bio, she grew up in Banks and now lives in Garibaldi.

She’s working on a new CD, but the flooding in Nashville has delayed production because recording companies lost a lot of equipment.

I’m really exhausted tonight and will head for bed soon. I’m struggling to keep my blood pressure regulated. It’s been going very low this week, making me light headed and low energy. I sent my doctor an email today to see about adjusting my meds.

Volunteers from among my peers at T.O.P.S. turned out in a large enough number to make the catering job run very smoothly. However, my feet don’t take kindly to standing and walking for most of four hours. If we do it again, I’ll suggest that half of the committee do the set up, all help serve, and half do the clean up. That way none of us should get over tired.

Today was much cooler and that was helpful. Tomorrow should be slightly warmer than today and we’ll gradually get back up into the 80’s. No rain is forecast for the next couple of weeks. I can manage well if we stay out of the 90’s, but I’m sure we won’t get through the whole summer without a few of those days.

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