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Spring progresses.
Apr. 30th, 2019 09:51 amas it does.
It rained most of last week, and they tell us that it will do so this week as well, so the strawberries are still not weeded. boo. It is not currently raining, but we got an inch of rain over the last two days, and almost two inches Fri-Sat, so the ground is too soft to work. There was a threat of inches of snow on Saturday night, but the upper air temperatures warmed up more than they expected, so we just got cold rain. I guess that's better.
Despite the rain and chill, the second flush of daffodils (those farther away from the house, or later blooming) have bloomed, and the species tulips in the side garden are open when there's sun -- so they were open on Sunday, but I haven't seen them since. The orange-red double tulips in the deckside bad are half open, but they don't like the rain/chill either. The crabapple in the front yard is showing lots of flower buds, and has a very faint haze of pink as some of them are just starting to open. Later this week, when it warms up, they should pop.
We (all!) had dinner with Mum last week. She was in town to catch a flight for a mystery trip, and will be returning to NC later this week. DB was setting up for a show, but we were able to schedule dinner late enough that he could skip out and join us.
SR has applied for an Australian permanent resident visa. She says she'll be back "sooner rather than later" to sort through the stuff in her room, but there's more paperwork to be done for that amendment. (she had limited space when she packed for Taipei, and did think that she'd be back in the US in a couple of years.)
In FCB news, you'd think we had a concert coming up or something. Lots of in-depth work on a couple of pieces, and hit some of the rougher spots in others. Also got the first of a few joint pieces for the Harrison Closing Ceremony and HHS Graduation. We still don't have a dress code for those events, but as they're at least four weeks away, I'm not too concerned. I expect that the Closing will be 'dress nicely' rather than 'concert blacks', as it's an Alumni band, and graduation the same. The concert on the 19th of May (at Kirk in the Hills in Bloomfield Hills!) starts off a spate of performances - concert May 19, rehearsal May 20, performance June 1, rehearsal June 3, performance June 9, rehearsal June 10, performance June 13, rehearsal June 17, performance June 23. eeesh! And the Livingston County Community Band starts rehearsals for their summer session on May 28 -- the new dental hygenist plays bassoon with them, and recruited me to play at least the summer. They have three weeks of rehearsals and then play in Brighton/Howell/Hartland through mid-August.
It rained most of last week, and they tell us that it will do so this week as well, so the strawberries are still not weeded. boo. It is not currently raining, but we got an inch of rain over the last two days, and almost two inches Fri-Sat, so the ground is too soft to work. There was a threat of inches of snow on Saturday night, but the upper air temperatures warmed up more than they expected, so we just got cold rain. I guess that's better.
Despite the rain and chill, the second flush of daffodils (those farther away from the house, or later blooming) have bloomed, and the species tulips in the side garden are open when there's sun -- so they were open on Sunday, but I haven't seen them since. The orange-red double tulips in the deckside bad are half open, but they don't like the rain/chill either. The crabapple in the front yard is showing lots of flower buds, and has a very faint haze of pink as some of them are just starting to open. Later this week, when it warms up, they should pop.
We (all!) had dinner with Mum last week. She was in town to catch a flight for a mystery trip, and will be returning to NC later this week. DB was setting up for a show, but we were able to schedule dinner late enough that he could skip out and join us.
SR has applied for an Australian permanent resident visa. She says she'll be back "sooner rather than later" to sort through the stuff in her room, but there's more paperwork to be done for that amendment. (she had limited space when she packed for Taipei, and did think that she'd be back in the US in a couple of years.)
In FCB news, you'd think we had a concert coming up or something. Lots of in-depth work on a couple of pieces, and hit some of the rougher spots in others. Also got the first of a few joint pieces for the Harrison Closing Ceremony and HHS Graduation. We still don't have a dress code for those events, but as they're at least four weeks away, I'm not too concerned. I expect that the Closing will be 'dress nicely' rather than 'concert blacks', as it's an Alumni band, and graduation the same. The concert on the 19th of May (at Kirk in the Hills in Bloomfield Hills!) starts off a spate of performances - concert May 19, rehearsal May 20, performance June 1, rehearsal June 3, performance June 9, rehearsal June 10, performance June 13, rehearsal June 17, performance June 23. eeesh! And the Livingston County Community Band starts rehearsals for their summer session on May 28 -- the new dental hygenist plays bassoon with them, and recruited me to play at least the summer. They have three weeks of rehearsals and then play in Brighton/Howell/Hartland through mid-August.
