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That was fast! - hello autumn
Oct. 6th, 2023 11:09 amIt rained all day yesterday. (over an inch of rain. never very hard, but it rained from about 10am to about 8pm, with bits of drizzle after that.) Today they're telling us that the high temperature will be in the mid 60sF -- Wednesday it was 85F in my yard. I did no yard work on Wednesday, even though I should have finished weeding the E garden -- my back was complaining, a lot, and I have learned that pushing through that level of complaint leads to a week of doing nothing. I'll give the garden a try later this afternoon, because this is as warm as day as they're predicting for the next week.
I expect that the FCB gig on Sunday will be cancelled. (currently, NWS says it will be 51F with 40% chance of showers.) That will make my life more difficult, as all of the things I'd take to the gig need to get to the cider mill on the 15th -- when I have a gig in Howell at the same time. So I'll be hauling all those things up to Farmington on Monday and handing them off to "someone else" to deal with.
Ji (the black cat) is being an obstreperous little beastie. Monday he decided that it'd been too long since he'd seen his preferred human and went on a hunger strike. I was a bit concerned, but he started eating again on Tuesday. I've not been able to get more than four or five of his pills into him - J's been gone since Thursday morning, so Ji is well down on his meds. foo. It's a long-term systemic med, and missing a few days really isn't going to cause any real problems, but still.... (My thumb isn't as long as J's, so I have to get the cat's mouth open farther to get the pill in. the cat doesn't like this.)
Annabelle (the gray cat) has been going outside on her own for most of the summer - she's figured out doors, so we're a little more willing to let her out. She was out yesterday morning when it started to rain. While it didn't rain really hard, it did start with fairly dense big raindrops. She was very confused by the sky throwing things at her. She trotted right in when I opened the door and called her.
Yesterday I ushered at Rackham Auditorium. The Jerusalem String Quartet did Haydn's E-flat Major, a UMS premiere of P. Ben-Haim's Quartet No. 1, and Dvorak's Quintet in A-Major where they were joined by Inon Barnatan on piano. The Quintet was my favorite, but that was mostly because the cellist and the pianist were having so much fun cuing each other. By the third movement of the quintet, the lead violinist was getting in on the fun. The encore (decided that morning, according to the violist) was a Scherzo from a Shostakovich quintet. I liked the Ben-Haim, but there were people in the audience who didn't like it because "it sounds wrong". (there was one old man who wouldn't/couldn't even admit that it was well-played -- I couldn't tell which. He was complaining to me because I was wearing a UMS badge.) Ben-Haim was a German Jew who moved to Palestine in the 1930s, and the quartet uses a lot of non-European folksongs and tonalities. If you want new stuff that's just like the old stuff only different, you're not gonna like this one -- not like the Haydn, which shuffled the "standards" of a string quartet but still kept within the Western musical sound.
I expect that the FCB gig on Sunday will be cancelled. (currently, NWS says it will be 51F with 40% chance of showers.) That will make my life more difficult, as all of the things I'd take to the gig need to get to the cider mill on the 15th -- when I have a gig in Howell at the same time. So I'll be hauling all those things up to Farmington on Monday and handing them off to "someone else" to deal with.
Ji (the black cat) is being an obstreperous little beastie. Monday he decided that it'd been too long since he'd seen his preferred human and went on a hunger strike. I was a bit concerned, but he started eating again on Tuesday. I've not been able to get more than four or five of his pills into him - J's been gone since Thursday morning, so Ji is well down on his meds. foo. It's a long-term systemic med, and missing a few days really isn't going to cause any real problems, but still.... (My thumb isn't as long as J's, so I have to get the cat's mouth open farther to get the pill in. the cat doesn't like this.)
Annabelle (the gray cat) has been going outside on her own for most of the summer - she's figured out doors, so we're a little more willing to let her out. She was out yesterday morning when it started to rain. While it didn't rain really hard, it did start with fairly dense big raindrops. She was very confused by the sky throwing things at her. She trotted right in when I opened the door and called her.
Yesterday I ushered at Rackham Auditorium. The Jerusalem String Quartet did Haydn's E-flat Major, a UMS premiere of P. Ben-Haim's Quartet No. 1, and Dvorak's Quintet in A-Major where they were joined by Inon Barnatan on piano. The Quintet was my favorite, but that was mostly because the cellist and the pianist were having so much fun cuing each other. By the third movement of the quintet, the lead violinist was getting in on the fun. The encore (decided that morning, according to the violist) was a Scherzo from a Shostakovich quintet. I liked the Ben-Haim, but there were people in the audience who didn't like it because "it sounds wrong". (there was one old man who wouldn't/couldn't even admit that it was well-played -- I couldn't tell which. He was complaining to me because I was wearing a UMS badge.) Ben-Haim was a German Jew who moved to Palestine in the 1930s, and the quartet uses a lot of non-European folksongs and tonalities. If you want new stuff that's just like the old stuff only different, you're not gonna like this one -- not like the Haydn, which shuffled the "standards" of a string quartet but still kept within the Western musical sound.
