Toast of Tampa Fun and More

September 6 - October 4, 2022

In August I visited my very first Sweet Adeline's International Chorus when I attended a "Toast of Tampa Show Chorus" rehearsal. By the end of September I was in the audition process to become a member of the Chorus, but then.... it got interrupted.... by Hurricane Ian.

We did not have to evacuate, but we did have some mighty fierce winds and a couple of trees came down in the apartment complex. There was a lot of damage around the western coast of Florida.

Our area made out pretty well, but our ward did several weekends of service in Hurricane Clean-up.

In Relief Society we Packed Food for the Volunteers who would be working Clean up in Ft. Meyers

We were without power for a couple of days, but we made due with a generator to plug the refrigerator into and our camp stove to cook on.

Once the power was turned on I had time to make a couple of Halloween Pillow covers for the couch. I made them to go with the small pillow. It gives our little apartment a fun festive look.

The Walmart Parking lot became a central parking lot for all the out of town electric power trucks here to restore power.

Finally, Toast of Tampa (Under the direction of Tony DaRosa) was able to meet and rehearse again. This was the final rehearsal before they sang the National Anthem at a Tampa Bay Buccaneers Football Game on October 9th.

I am learning so much about singing Barbershop Harmony and even more about singing in a new way! I love it and I hope to pass my audition. I really want to go to SAI Regionals with "Toast" May.