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Bands vs Weather 2024, 5-1
Jun. 29th, 2024 12:12 pmIt was a pretty good week for the bands. Tuesday night in Hamburg was very lightly attended (most of the audience was friends/family, but there were some locals there). The concert went reasonably well, but it was a bit loose, even by Livingston standards. It was not really hot, and there was a decent breeze.
Wednesday night's concert on Belle Isle was *much* better. The music selection was a little more demanding and the performance level was waaaay higher. There's much more listening across the band in Farmington (and honestly, the base level of musicianship is higher in Farmington. There are only a few people in the Livingston band who would play more than one concert with Farmington, because the expectations are so much higher). The weather was just about perfect for a concert in the park -- low 70s, some clouds, not humid -- the only problem I had was that as the sun went down, the clouds thinned and the sun went 'around' the trees so that I had sun directly in my eyes.
I went into work on Monday, and we got the last of the 800 AV ballots out in the mail. There will still be applications coming in and ballots going out, but the big push is done. Also on Monday we pulled a ballot box out of the basement so we'd have it in the office when ballots started coming back in. Which they did on Tuesday. The changes in MI voting law mean that we've had to make some decisions about recordkeeping, with nothing useful from the state.
This morning we got over 3.5" of rain. That's a lot of water. There were a few rumbles of distant thunder, but we mostly got a steady rain. I think I'll probably not go into the gardens today. (well, maybe the strawberry bed, because I can reach that without stepping into it.) But it's really humid, and I may punt. I shouldn't, because it's been way too long since I've done any weeding. OTOH, tomorrow is supposed to be cooler/drier, and the water will have soaked in and loosened the soil so that the weeds will come out better. We shall see.
Wednesday night's concert on Belle Isle was *much* better. The music selection was a little more demanding and the performance level was waaaay higher. There's much more listening across the band in Farmington (and honestly, the base level of musicianship is higher in Farmington. There are only a few people in the Livingston band who would play more than one concert with Farmington, because the expectations are so much higher). The weather was just about perfect for a concert in the park -- low 70s, some clouds, not humid -- the only problem I had was that as the sun went down, the clouds thinned and the sun went 'around' the trees so that I had sun directly in my eyes.
I went into work on Monday, and we got the last of the 800 AV ballots out in the mail. There will still be applications coming in and ballots going out, but the big push is done. Also on Monday we pulled a ballot box out of the basement so we'd have it in the office when ballots started coming back in. Which they did on Tuesday. The changes in MI voting law mean that we've had to make some decisions about recordkeeping, with nothing useful from the state.
This morning we got over 3.5" of rain. That's a lot of water. There were a few rumbles of distant thunder, but we mostly got a steady rain. I think I'll probably not go into the gardens today. (well, maybe the strawberry bed, because I can reach that without stepping into it.) But it's really humid, and I may punt. I shouldn't, because it's been way too long since I've done any weeding. OTOH, tomorrow is supposed to be cooler/drier, and the water will have soaked in and loosened the soil so that the weeds will come out better. We shall see.
