Hey, why not?
Hi Jess,
I thought I,d drop in and say hello to you and that sweet little baby who once scared the living daylights out of me when I was scrolling through another thread and got distracted for a moment. When I turned back to the screen there was a GIANT baby looking back at me. I bear no grudge of course, anybody would forgive those blue eyes for anything
If you posted this thread out of a sense of isolation, donāworry.
Iām sure many of the regulars have only nice thoughts and good wishes for you so as somebody once said,CāMON EVERYBODY and drop in and say hello to jess.
There you go, the floodgates are open.
take care,
D.
We had a nice chat for a while when I posted this. Itās not a matter of isolation. Dan is home every night with me and I canāt chat then because Iād rather be with him. Sometimes itās nice to chat, so I started the thread. Steven, Andrea, Tony, BoneQuint (I donāt know his name - oops) and I had a nice chat. I will update the thread title so people donāt think I am still waiting.
Hi, Jessie.
I saw your post and went to ChiffyChat, but it was about an hour after your posting time and you must have finished. Sorry to have missed you. If you do it again, Iāll try to show up.
Best wishes,
Jerry
Yeah, Jerry, I remember you were there the last time I started a daytime chat.
Yeah, after the chat Jessie made me spend $300 on another whistle.
She twisted my arm, really she did.
It still hurts, owie.
Or was it she made me go to eBay and look at that auction, yeah, that is what it was. I had ABSOLUTELY NO CONTROL!!!
It was a GREAT deal though! and it was lonely, the owner did not want it any more and it had such sad puppy eyes (I knew that even though there wasnāt a picture).
Anyway, it was fun chatting and getting to know each other a little better.
Steven thankful the bonus is only 2 weeks away
NorCalMusician
The day i pay $300 on a whistle, it better be a very nice whistle. It better come and bring breakfast to me in bed every morning.
I donāt think I should admit the most Iāve spent on a whistle.
You just have a different calling in life. 
glauber (stepping on eggshells, waiting for the wack)
Nah. My calling is pretty normalā¦devoted wife, mother and daughter, artistic in many ways. Itās what I do with disposable income thatās different.
Hi Jessie ā¦ I think I saw a 14K whistle or flute listed in your pictures of your āoldā collection in NorCalās thread ā so $300 is probably more like your ālow-endā whistle than the āhigh-endā. With that collection I would waste most of my day just trying to decide which instrument to play next. Good thing God let me be poor ā¦
All the best,
~Judy
$300 isnāt low end, but it isnāt maximum, either. Compared to flutes (especially Boehm), all whistles are inexpensive. Yes, I do spend a lot of time playing and/or thinking about whistles, but I donāt consider the time wasted. I am very lucky to have a career that allows me lots of free time and a husband and daughter who love to hear the flute and whistle being played.
Very lucky indeed.
I think my daughters enjoyed it as infants, too. Itās when theyāre teens, and having a whistling mother is so not-the-norm, that they begin to question the acceptability of the hobby.
I am hoping to turn Joey into a whistler and fluter long before she becomes a teen. (Wish me luck!)
Yeah, you will need it. Our third, who is 10 going on 11, is reaching that transition point right now.
Em, you know the point where no matter what you do they screw their face up at you like you are from another planet?
The point where the kids at school put enought pressure on him that, even though he really likes mom to walk to school with him, he has asked her not to.
Even though he protests, he still lets me hug, kiss and tickle him. I can tell the protests are not totally real though. In public though, he is starting to resent this sort of interaction, ESPECIALLY when a peer is about.
I am hoping that is as far as it goes.
He still likes to listen to the variety of music that we do, but I can see it coming where that may change. He does not seem interested in learning how to play either.
He is starting to get the adolescent walk. Oh, nothing drastic, just different. I noticed it the other day at the Bay Area even. More confident, more forthright, more direct.
DANG! He is growing up. 
Also, regarding the price paid for a whistle.
I can think of 10,000 things that would be much less desireable to purchace with that money than a quality instrument that will bring us decades of enjoyment. Heck, people spend that much on a dinner that will just get flushed down the toilet the next day.
Then there is the bottomless pit that is television. Donāt even get me started on other things.
I know, some people can spend 3-15 dollars on whistles and be totally happy with them. We just have not found whistles in that range to be desirable to us yet. So we spend what we have to to get the qualities we desire. Not breakfast in bed required for that pleasure. :roll:
I seem to recall a C&F er selling a collection of whistles that included a 14 carat gold Copeland for $1,800. Now that is just silly! 
Hehehe. Careful what you say and where, Jetboy. 
I guess it depends on how you feel about gold. Itās not meaningful to meā¦but, as we know, there are those here who donāt see the point in anything more pricy than a Walton. Itās all relative.
I special ordered tubing to have Copeland Woodwinds make a gold whistle for a friend of mine who loved gold and had been very generous with me. There was a minimum order for the tubing, since it was specially made, and to cover the minimum, I would have had enough for a whistle and a half, so I went ahead and had two made, trading my Copeland whistle pendant design and a whole bunch of pieces for the labor. The receiver LOVED the gift, and I sold the other one, which paid for what I had spent on both, including jewelry expenses. Not bad, eh?