Three (no! four) things make a post

• FCB is now done for the season. Last concert for the season was last night. There was a reasonable turnout, especially considering that the city had the concert listed as being at the other Riley Park. It wasn't too hot, although I hear that the people in the front of the band were pretty roast-y -- they were in the sun, as the back few rows were not. I contributed an extra bin to make the collecting of all the folders easier. DB was going to come to the concert (he'd been out of town for the other public concerts we did), but they got new lights for the auditorium and he had to go help install them.


• DB got some really nice pictures (through the screen door) of the hawk that's been "skreel"ing in the backyard for the last week or so.
  
  
  
  
  
  And a shot of a squirrel being very flat and still while the hawk was on the other side of the rosebush.
  
  
  Theoretically, he's going off to Western in the fall, but due to procrastination of various types, he didn't get his application in until July and then WCC dragged out sending his transcript over, so he still hasn't heard whether he's starting classes in September or not. And he's barely started to figure out housing. sigh.


• I did some heavy duty weeding and such on Friday and Saturday, and by Sunday I had some lovely contact dermatitis welts from the milkweed and sea holly and Queen Anne's lace I brushed up against (despite long sleeves and gloves, and scrubbing off with abrasive cleanser). Prednisone and Claritin for the win. blargh. Still don't want to do much, though, and certainly not going back out to weed in those flowerbeds for a while. Fortunately, I was pretty much done anyway.


• We've had no appreciable rain for three weeks or so, and many plants are showing that. I've been watering the new roses and the stuff I moved in the spring, but I need to water the strawberry beds -- they're pretty much just dry compost dust at the moment, and I really should move new starts from the old bed into the new one this week. Fortunately, not a lot of tall weeds in or near the strawberry beds.