My luck seems to be holding-while my ears did ring for a few hours after being near that car it's been my sinus' that have been causing a problem like they did last year this time. After calling around on renting a fiddle to own,I decided to not bid on the auction-I'd rather know I'm getting a decent fiddle from the start.
The mando will be played more in a little while-Cobblers Hornpipe is nearly memorized and I actually started to learn the very next tune a Bransle something or other. And I got a bid on an Elizabethan style hat I made.......Huzzah! I do need to get some new mando strings.......I prefer D'addario so I'll be getting those for my A and my bowlback Ibanez.
In the meantime I've been revamping one of my webstores hoping this will be the rebirth it needs.