It’s been such a long time since I have posted or uploaded any music. I apologize.
I have been working a lot these past couple of years and that has taken up a lot of my energy.

Good things have been happening – my youngest son left for his mission on June 10th. My youngest daughter moved home with her little one – so I was only alone for a couple of months.
My new church assignment – as of Jan 2024 – is the Ward Music Chairman, so I am blessed to select the Sunday sacrament hymns. Best calling for an intovert.
I was just released from my Service Mission of 3 years and have transitioned to “Temple worker” – I still do the same service every Monday, I just wear a different name tag.

A sad thing happened though, a very sad thing. 😦
I drive for Amish occassionally – taking them to places they want to visit – yes this is a paying job.
Well, in July, I took a group to a city in New York. Since I was going to be in a hotel for three days, I decided to take my laptop and my MS Surface with me so I could do some computer work on the lap top and work on some music on the MS Surface. I had transferred all my music and the novel I was working on (85000+ words) to the MS Surface so I could be more mobile and separate my work from my creativity. It seemed like a good idea. I had not connected my MS Surface to the One Drive and I regret it greatly.

When packing my car for the Amish trip, I set my belongings and computer bag far over to the left of the trunk to allow the Amish to have the rest of the trunk for their stuff. After driving them to New York, I dropped them off at their family home, they removed their bags and I headed over to the hotel. Upon arriving, I checked in and took my bags to my room. As soon as I entered my hotel room, I quickly set up my laptop and completed the work I needed so I could get to my Surface and write some music. I had been commissioned to complete a song for a friend from a basic notated verse. My laptop and my surface were in separate pockets in my computer bag. I reached into the pocket the Surface was in and the lining felt strangely damp. I lifted the Surface out of the bag and it was dripping. One of the Amish had set their water jugs on top of their ‘dry’ belongings and it had tipped and leaked – worst thing was they had stacked their belongings on top of my belongings. The water dripped into the outer pocket of my computer bag. Ruining the Surface.

This has been devestating for me – the pro 6 hard-drive cannot be accessed if the computer will not boot – the harddrive is sodered onto the motherboard and has some kind of key encryption – so it cannot be removed and hooked up to a hard drive adapter so I can transferred the music files (and my novel) to another computer – a lifetime of music, since 1991 and a trilogy is gone…unrecoverable. It would take a real miracle and a computer guru to save my files.

I have the paper copies of some of my earlier music and I do have the pdf’s of the music on this website, but all the files in muscore format are gone – over 200 simplified hymns. Sigh…..

Oh, well – that is how life goes – we live and learn and start again.

Now there is new LDS music that is being added – most of it is simple enough and if you download the guitar pdf, there are pedal hints there – I could look and tweek them for organ, if I have time.

I most likely need to update some of my own music that I have written and posted – now that I have had a few years and I can see the weak spots.

This post does end with some good news – my oldest son sent me a Macbook Air – so after I have conquered my learning curve and downloaded musescore I can set up a new file, download all the PDF’s from this site, review them and rewrite anything I need to then maybe…begin working on music again.

I hope everyone has a good rest of the year.

Elizabeth 🙂