@Bert and…if you’re “Knock Kneed” ?
I saw two twins, one was bow legged and the other, knock kneed.
Together…they spelled “OX”.
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Were they looking for their other bow legged sibling (OXO)?
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Holy WOW! That is beautiful!
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I have gotten a few good laughs in reading this! Thank you all.
This was a very good question. Now I am going to mess with it a little. My mother was left handed, forced to become right handed because the Catholic school she attended thought left handed meant devil spawn. She became extremely good at being ambidextrous, which served her especially well in sports.
Because she taught me, I am fairly ambidextrous as well. However, my left side is most affected, although my strokes were on both sides. Physically, although left is wor eaker, I have very few issues. Cognitively, though, I am not myself. I am no longer creative. I am no longer organized to the point I was before. I have trouble focusing, even on just one thing. I have the attention span of a child with ADHD as well as being impulsive now, and have become much more apathetic than my prior self. Becoming a different person in my mind has thrown me for a loop. I truly liked my former self. Now I seem fixated on silly things, like dressing like a movie star or CEO, or making my house look like a magazine photo shoot… I have to fight to be the me I truly liked. I hope this is my teenage or young adult stage coming back. I think I have finally surpassed the toddler stage.
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Thanks DeAnn: I’m glad you like it. It is a slice of N.J. farmland.
And Be gentle with yourself…you are so creative in the way you write. Always a good read!
Godbless.
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I second that.
We’ve become a little fragile due to experience.
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I hear you Strings, had an ischemic right MCA stroke affecting my left side.
I was lucky and have had a full recovery. Very blessed and rhankful.
Day i got discarged from hospital to home first thing i did was see if i could still play my guitar. Im a decades lobg player and a home recording guy too. It took a fewof weeks to get fluid again with my left hand but it did come back.
But hey i know how you feel about both hands needing to work together. Spot on. Tougher when your learning the instrument. Stick with it …music is medicine and physical therapy. Maybe try for simple chords and strumming at first to synch the hands.
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@2lanegypsy As a guitarist you will understand when I say that I have tried many different tunings as well as standard in hope of finding shapes that I can manage to make. I can’t bar because my index finger won’t straighten. I can now manage a few partial chords and have come the closest to playing by using DADGAD tuning.
Luckily my right hand is good and I play fingerstyle.
(Apologies to non players for boring tech talk 
)
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Not at all, not at all, my dear chap.
As an ex-percussionist, I’m used to sitting at the back while more melodious fellows are discussing their ‘arpeggio’s’ and whatever. I’ve given most of my equipment to my son to use in his studio. I’ll never use it again (I’d retired 3 years ago, anyway).
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@Strings
@BobQ1
Keyboard player and singer in my band. At least I can play solid chords with rhythm.
I used to be so fast on the keys…sad. Thank goodness the voice is still good.
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@Outlander Wow, we have enough players here to form our own band!
Strokies first album ‘Bolt from the Blue’ 
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@Strings Now…if we could only find a Bagpipe player,
“Strokies” on Tour.
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@Outlander My mate is in Glencoe at the moment, who knows what he’ll come back with (hypothermia probably )
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Have sung in a few bands, but much prefer singing harmony. Did a stint for about 4 years with another guy covering old CSN stuff (amongst others). Loved it. Made a nice change playing a Cajon instead of a kit.
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The unique thing about our band is the upright bass player. We play old-time swing,
rock n’ roll, Woodstock era stuff (love Creedence Clearwater), and the blues.
Our name is “StoneHouse Band”. We practice in the bass player’s house,a stone building built in the 1800s.
@Strings what does your mate play?
@BobQ1 I’m basically the lead singer.
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Only one thing wrong with the title of this post, every time I see it I get this stupid song popping into my head that I heard on TikTok 
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I might have to join the band with my clarinet 
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I’m probably going to regret this, but this link is to a short sample film we did at my son’s studio - just as a try-out of some original stuff.
This was about 8 years ago
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@Outlander Three of us play together. I’m guitar and vocals, one mate plays a nylon strung classical plus fingerstyle Uke, keyboards, the other guy is a good multi instrumentalist, he plays Mandolin, Bouzouki, Guitar and Fiddle. He teaches piano and is an excellent keyboard man but plays the other instruments out and about. We play a real mixture of material including Folk, Country, Classical, own compositions, harmony stuff like CSN, a few Tom Waits songs, whatever takes our fancy.
I’ll see if the lads fancy popping over to the Stonehouse for a jam
PIC is from my next to last outing, a charity Arts trail in May, a hot day and we were playing outside in the sunshine ( me in the middle completely
unaware that I’d have a stroke a few days later}
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@BobQ1 Great stuff, no need to regret that my friend 
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