Balboni's Barbequed Baked Beans

In the end even I liked it.

In the beginning it was just an idea. Then it grew to a spoken goal, “Let’s create a musical together.” As the year rolled forward those 110 4^th graders and I inched ahead, transforming the idea into reality.

Last Thursday we performed it. It seemed to me that all of us; teachers, students, parents, had an experience we will always remember. The students and teachers had worked so hard, the students performed from their hearts, the parents received it so openly - understanding the depth and richness of what their children had experienced.

Personal achievement is wonderful – but group achievement all the more so.

It was called, “A Thief, A Liar, and Some Singing Cows.” Our musical was set in Old Texas. As Billy Bob tries to “get to the bottom” of the why certain things have turned up missing (Including the entire stock of Balboni’s Barbequed Baked Beans) in town the people of Diamondback Springs learn that you can’t hide the truth.