It was one of those days…..

decided I needed a few things today……and needed to do one thing…hit the weights.

it’s been a while…but got to the SVAC first thing. hit every body part..and then on the road.

I wanted to visit a book store I’ve been meaning to get to forever….and then I had to pick up my mom’s guitar…….

First thing, headed to Audrey’s Books….when I first got there, parking seemed impossible…so I said screw this and headed over to Myer’s Music to grab the guitar

got there and it was still closed….

so was going to give up, and just go home…but, what? I’m here, I’m in Edmonton, I don’t have to be anywhere…so drove back to Audrey’s and was glad I did, so glad…..

what an amazing store…totally independent, local, and wow!!!..a book store of book stores, who sas books and reading is dying….it’s a huge place filled with books, just books…..and lots of local, provincial, canadian, indegenous, LGBTQ2S, everything…like an alternative independent music store….I was like a kid in a candy store……f Amazon!..it was a little bit of a drive, but I will be back, again and again.

Myer’s is an insitution in Edmonton, so I had to go back too……an acoustic stringed instrument store….was an amazing store, brought back so many memories, of music stores of old…

My mom’s guitar has a bit of a crack….I guess humidity does that to guitars once in a while..

When I was growing up there was so many old music stores around….I would cut school in high school and go to all of them…they were usually on older buildings, they had that smell right….some wooden floors, but always a ton of guitars, amps…I remember one, Keen Craft…all the instruments on one side, amps on the other behind a wall….you could grab a guitar, wander into the amp side and play….there was a club on the second floor of the building called the Hovel, and occasionally someone playing there would pop in and be testing guitars in Keen Craft..and I’ll never forget swapping chords with a guy named Brent Titcombe….he an actual song writer!….for a kid in 10th grade that was a once in a lifetime moment….

So a morning of memories and a bit of driving around…

on my way home I had to grab groceries….after pullng into one parking lot and realizing it was $1.49 day and saw that the parking lot was packed…drove on by, headed over to another grocery store and then home…

actually a lot of driving, I like driving, always have..and a tour around my ‘hood, the city….so a good day…..and lots and lots of memories..