Desert Messenger

February 5, 2020 www.DesertMessenger.com 23 133 Sites Free WiFi Laundry Showers Club House Bingo Live Music Pets Welcome Quiet- Friendly- Affordable Monthly Rates New Ownership & Management! 715 East Quail Trail Quartzsite AZ 85346 (928) 927-5057 Leesa Bolden, LAc, MAOM The Whole Body Repair Shop Acupuncture, Massage, Nutrition & Herbs Meditation & Qigong Instruction 512-784-6929 Practitioner of Chinese Medicine Licensed Acupunturist Now in Quartzsite for Private Sessions and Community Acupuncture 602.513.1546 Facebook/AdventuresUTV By Jackie Deal Tiny Tim. Remember him? Tiptoe Through The Tulips? Falsetto? And he played the Ukulele? Ever won- der if Tiny Tim was his real name, so I googled it. His real name was Herbert Buckingham Khoury. Can't blame him for changing his name to Tiny Tim, can you? But choosing the ukulele? That's another matter. A friend (he's slipped down from the category of good friend) gave me a few pointers on playing the ukule- le. So now it's strum-strum-strum- mity-strum. Progress from strum- strummity-strum, don't you think? That's the right hand. The left hand is still wandering around in the desert looking for a home. Bright idea! I'm right handed; let's do the chords right handed and strum with the left! Bad idea. Dumb idea. A positive disaster. I complained (I don't whine, Ken!) and my Music Guru said, "Okay, maybe the ukulele isn't right for your fi ngers." Wasn't he sweet Diary (saga) of a reluctant (inept) ukulele student III not to say my fi ngers weren't right? "Maybe a Ukulele-Banjo would be better for you." So, "Baby" has gone back to the orphanage and I now have "Ubie." A ukulele-banjo or is it a banjo-ukulele? It sounds like a banjo, awfully loud. Plays like a Uke and is kinda cute. Now it's a she, I know for sure. She has a cute round bottom and a long elegant neck. Both feminine attributes, right? Almost overnight I ended up with a terrifi cally sore in- dex fi nger on my right hand. Guru said, "Why don't you use a pick?" "Cuz I ain't got one." "Oh, for Pete's Sake." Out from his pocket came a pick, "Oh, wait I'm not gonna give you an expensive one. That one's worth $6." (What am I, chopped liv- er?) Out from another pocket came another pick. And then would you believe, it took three guys to show me how to hold the dumb thing. By the way, Gals, if you're having trou- ble getting a man—try learning to play the ukulele! RV There Yet? Facebook RVerTV YouTube's # 1 RV Channel RVerTV.tv RV There Yet? Email: rvertv@gmail.com YOGI'S FIREWOOD MOBILE SERVICE Now Serving Quartzsite! FREE DELIVERY w/purchase of 3 bundles premium boxed wood! CALL DAVID 928-927-3123 Licensed & Insured BLM LTVA Permitted!

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