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Feb. 17th, 2022 11:27 amAnd I have three things!
I have been *learning*(!) stuff. :) The high school band that the FCB used to share music with was, erm, not very responsible with their music. Last week, the librarian handed out a piece of music that was missing the Tenor sax, bari sax, and timpani parts. Some pieces you can buy just the part you need for $5 or so, but not this one. So we asked around, and none of the usual sources had it. But the score is available for free.... I downloaded it, and transcribed the Barisax part, which took a few hours. The Tenor sax part is nearly identical, rhythm-wise, to the BSax part and so only took 30 minutes . Then I looked at the timpani part, and it was pretty easy to transcribe. Once I learned how to do rolls and an uncounted measure and stemless notes....
The weather has been downright weird! Wednesday it was over 50F, so the snow all melted. On top of frozen ground, so it puddled/ponded everywhere! The field behind the house is flooded deeper than I ever remember, and there is a debris field in the easement from the water running into it. It was 40F when I got up this morning, and it's now 28F, and they tell us it will be 7F tonight. And it will start snowing at some point. I hope that the upper air levels will be cold enough by then that we will just get snow, not snow/ice/sleet... But we shall see.
When I went out to feed the birds this morning, there was a squirrel on the hopper feeder completely blocking my view of it, so I had no idea how full it was. He didn't leave until I was five feet away from the feeder, and then he dropped onto the packed snow underneath the feeder and scrabbled a lot on the ice, trying to get away from the "monster".
Ji-kitteh has discovered the small toy mice, and has been playing with them. There are two, and he plays with one at a time. He picks it up by the tail and flings it into the air, then bats it around until it goes under furniture, at which point he walks away 'who me? that wasn't me making all that noise.' an hour or so later (after his nap), he's back doing the same thing. He still "hunts" the larger IKEA mouses when the house is empty, but they're not as much fun to play with.
I have been *learning*(!) stuff. :) The high school band that the FCB used to share music with was, erm, not very responsible with their music. Last week, the librarian handed out a piece of music that was missing the Tenor sax, bari sax, and timpani parts. Some pieces you can buy just the part you need for $5 or so, but not this one. So we asked around, and none of the usual sources had it. But the score is available for free.... I downloaded it, and transcribed the Barisax part, which took a few hours. The Tenor sax part is nearly identical, rhythm-wise, to the BSax part and so only took 30 minutes . Then I looked at the timpani part, and it was pretty easy to transcribe. Once I learned how to do rolls and an uncounted measure and stemless notes....
The weather has been downright weird! Wednesday it was over 50F, so the snow all melted. On top of frozen ground, so it puddled/ponded everywhere! The field behind the house is flooded deeper than I ever remember, and there is a debris field in the easement from the water running into it. It was 40F when I got up this morning, and it's now 28F, and they tell us it will be 7F tonight. And it will start snowing at some point. I hope that the upper air levels will be cold enough by then that we will just get snow, not snow/ice/sleet... But we shall see.
When I went out to feed the birds this morning, there was a squirrel on the hopper feeder completely blocking my view of it, so I had no idea how full it was. He didn't leave until I was five feet away from the feeder, and then he dropped onto the packed snow underneath the feeder and scrabbled a lot on the ice, trying to get away from the "monster".
Ji-kitteh has discovered the small toy mice, and has been playing with them. There are two, and he plays with one at a time. He picks it up by the tail and flings it into the air, then bats it around until it goes under furniture, at which point he walks away 'who me? that wasn't me making all that noise.' an hour or so later (after his nap), he's back doing the same thing. He still "hunts" the larger IKEA mouses when the house is empty, but they're not as much fun to play with.
