Extra curricular

"Can we get a case with backpack straps?" I asked.

"A gig bag?" the music store clerk asked. "Of course."

"I'm going to be a football playing cello player," my son said.

"Yes you are, honey."

Just to add to the list of crazy things I have carried on my bike in the month of August (Husker poster clipped to board, hula hoop, four sacks of groceries...) I rode my bike with a cello on my back today to get Frank to school.