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May. 24th, 2018 09:11 amI fixed the rill yesterday. (Finally!) I pulled off the rocks along the top three levels, pulled back the liner & roofing felt, and rebuilt the sides of the pools so that the water would go over the flagstone drip edges rather than around; then replaced the liner and the rocks and turned on the pump. Nearly a day later, there are no damp bricks in the retaining wall, and the pond level hasn't dropped much (there's always more evaporation when the rill is running).
J ripped out the bigger of the two shrubberies next to the rill because it was getting too big; and the volunteer tree also got sent to the burn pile. The volunteer barberry got moved next to the red barberry in the backyard. (We have birds, chipmunks, and squirrels in the yard, we get lots of volunteer plants. Some we keep.) He also moved two of the oak 'trees' from the front flowerbed -- they're about 18" tall, but have lots of healthy leaves.
I have been weeding between rain events, but I'm way behind because the big gardens are too wet to walk in. They should dry out for the weekend. whee?
Sunday was the FCB's last formal concert for the season. It was at St James' church in Novi, and while it's a gorgeous space, we're really too big for it. The tubas were in the third row on the altar, and we could see Damien...sometimes. It didn't help that he was two steps down, on the sanctuary floor. I flubbed the cutoff at the end of Simple Song because I didn't see it, CB said he blew right through a fermata, etc. I told the set-up crew "don't do that again!". Next up is two more rehearsals to learn a bunch of new music, then a concert on the 14th and one on the 17th of June. The gig on the 17th is the first in a new series of concerts at the Belle Isle bandshell. My mother says that she will tell 'her people' and they may show up, depending on the weather (many of her Michigan friends remember going to the BI bandshell in their youth).
Tuesday night, J and I wandered off to the HS for the spring band & orchestra concert. We haven't been to one since DB graduated, but the Wind Symphony was premiering a piece that had been commissioned for Chelsea High; from a high school buddy of J's. It was as expected -- contained bits of the fight song and the alma mater, and written for a good HS band. The concert was pretty good, actually. The spring concerts tend to be the best, musically speaking, as they've had the most time to work on the pieces in it. The concert had been pushed back 30 minutes in the hope that at least some of the girls on the softball/lacrosse teams would be back from their (rescheduled due to weather) games in time to play. There were probably 15 girls still in athletic uniforms for the concert. It was a bit odd after the concert - J went and got his recorder, and then we went home. No stacking, no racking, no waiting for kids, etc. I took my concert knitting, but didn't get as much done as I used to, and on the way home I realised why -- I didn't show up 45 minutes before the concert started and leave 60 minutes after it ended.
J ripped out the bigger of the two shrubberies next to the rill because it was getting too big; and the volunteer tree also got sent to the burn pile. The volunteer barberry got moved next to the red barberry in the backyard. (We have birds, chipmunks, and squirrels in the yard, we get lots of volunteer plants. Some we keep.) He also moved two of the oak 'trees' from the front flowerbed -- they're about 18" tall, but have lots of healthy leaves.
I have been weeding between rain events, but I'm way behind because the big gardens are too wet to walk in. They should dry out for the weekend. whee?
Sunday was the FCB's last formal concert for the season. It was at St James' church in Novi, and while it's a gorgeous space, we're really too big for it. The tubas were in the third row on the altar, and we could see Damien...sometimes. It didn't help that he was two steps down, on the sanctuary floor. I flubbed the cutoff at the end of Simple Song because I didn't see it, CB said he blew right through a fermata, etc. I told the set-up crew "don't do that again!". Next up is two more rehearsals to learn a bunch of new music, then a concert on the 14th and one on the 17th of June. The gig on the 17th is the first in a new series of concerts at the Belle Isle bandshell. My mother says that she will tell 'her people' and they may show up, depending on the weather (many of her Michigan friends remember going to the BI bandshell in their youth).
Tuesday night, J and I wandered off to the HS for the spring band & orchestra concert. We haven't been to one since DB graduated, but the Wind Symphony was premiering a piece that had been commissioned for Chelsea High; from a high school buddy of J's. It was as expected -- contained bits of the fight song and the alma mater, and written for a good HS band. The concert was pretty good, actually. The spring concerts tend to be the best, musically speaking, as they've had the most time to work on the pieces in it. The concert had been pushed back 30 minutes in the hope that at least some of the girls on the softball/lacrosse teams would be back from their (rescheduled due to weather) games in time to play. There were probably 15 girls still in athletic uniforms for the concert. It was a bit odd after the concert - J went and got his recorder, and then we went home. No stacking, no racking, no waiting for kids, etc. I took my concert knitting, but didn't get as much done as I used to, and on the way home I realised why -- I didn't show up 45 minutes before the concert started and leave 60 minutes after it ended.
