Horn Travels

Day 1
Though classes ended the first week of December, the feeling of being on sabbatical didn't actually start until the first day of classes of this semester.  Everyone else went back to school and started teaching.  You would think this would only be cause for great glee, but I will actually miss all of my students.  There was a moment where I thought we might have a snow day in Colorado and everyone would have the day off- then I would not feel as privileged to be on sabbatical.

What is my project?  in the shortest way of phrasing it, my project is to practice the horn.  Don't I do that all of the time?  to a degree, yes.  But teaching a full load at a University with it's myriad committees and meeting and responsibilities, severely limits the amount of practice time.
It takes a good deal of actual time on the horn to maintain one's embouchure in the kind of shape it needs to be to sound like a professional musician.