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It's awfully close to winter, now.
Nov. 7th, 2019 04:53 pmThe weekend before Halloween, J and I took the screens out of the windows (the garage attic was open so I could get out the Halloween decorations, and we decided that we should put the screens up there while it was already open). Yesterday (Tuesday), I put out the heated birdbath, as the unheated one was frozen almost solid -- the cake of ice is still in the backyard, albeit a bit smaller than it was when I took it out. There's still enough thermal mass in the pond that there's been only the very thinnest of ice rims forming around rocks. There was a slight dusting of snow this morning, and there is still snow in shaded places. The black cat is annoyed by the change in weather, which is obviously my fault.
The farmer who works the fields behind the house hasn't come around with the combine yet, but I passed a number of harvested fields today on my way home from the cider mill. The cider mill plans on being open another week or two, but much depends on how cold it is (the shop isn't heated very well), and how much cider they sell (they'll close up when they've pressed the last of the apples).
More music in both bands this week. Still only one exact double, as the FCB will (theoretically) not be playing Sleigh Ride this year; but both bands are doing a Holst Christmas piece. I'm also pretty sure that the FCB is not quite done handing out music for the holiday concert. They tried to recruit me for the recorder choir in LCCB, but I managed to evade that one.
Bell Choir on Sunday went reasonably well, other than the clapper for one of the upper bells falling out. So we didn't have that bell for the last two thirds of the piece, and the person playing it was giggling (it went flinging out as she pulled the bell back to ring it) too hard to play her other bell for a few measures. I was assigned a third bell at my last rehearsal, so I spent most of Sunday morning's stage rehearsal figuring that out.
The farmer who works the fields behind the house hasn't come around with the combine yet, but I passed a number of harvested fields today on my way home from the cider mill. The cider mill plans on being open another week or two, but much depends on how cold it is (the shop isn't heated very well), and how much cider they sell (they'll close up when they've pressed the last of the apples).
More music in both bands this week. Still only one exact double, as the FCB will (theoretically) not be playing Sleigh Ride this year; but both bands are doing a Holst Christmas piece. I'm also pretty sure that the FCB is not quite done handing out music for the holiday concert. They tried to recruit me for the recorder choir in LCCB, but I managed to evade that one.
Bell Choir on Sunday went reasonably well, other than the clapper for one of the upper bells falling out. So we didn't have that bell for the last two thirds of the piece, and the person playing it was giggling (it went flinging out as she pulled the bell back to ring it) too hard to play her other bell for a few measures. I was assigned a third bell at my last rehearsal, so I spent most of Sunday morning's stage rehearsal figuring that out.
