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Bands vs Weather 2024, 7-3-1
Jul. 24th, 2024 08:48 amWe cancelled Monday's Farmington concert at about 5pm, just as the percussion and set crews were getting ready to leave for the venue. The weather services kept shoving the rain back into the performance time (even if the rain's stopped, the grass is still wet and the air is damp). It turns out that it was a good choice, as BM (who lives 10 minutes from the venue) said it started raining about 1845, which was *after* call but before the concert.
Tuesday's Livingston concert was in Hartland. We got about 2/3 through the program and it started to rain. Not hard, but there were dark clouds around. So the director skipped to Stars & Stripes and we closed out the concert so that the audience could go home. He asked if we wanted to keep playing, but it was raining on the back of the band (the breeze was blowing rain under the pavilion). So we started to pack up. And then there was a big rumble of thunder and it really started raining. I took my time packing up, hoping that the rain would pass, but people watching the weather on their phones said "it's gonna keep doing this for another 20 minutes or so". Blah. So I trundled off to the car, in the pouring rain. Got soaked on the way. :( Deployed the picnic blanket so I wouldn't get the seat *too* wet, cleaned the raindrops off my glasses (which I had taken off and tucked into my shirt so "they wouldn't get wet", wiped down the condensation on the inside of the windows, and headed home. I was about 20 minutes from the venue when it stopped raining (and I was going in the direction the rain was coming from), so I would have been under the pavilion watching it rain for quite a while.
The primary election is coming up in two weeks. We're still at less than 50% of absentee ballots returned. (to be fair to the voters, I haven't returned mine yet.) Saturday starts Early Voting. I hope we get better turnout than we did in February. "They" all say we will, as people get used to the idea and/or don't mind voting early -- which is sometimes a crapshoot on the Presidential Primary, as the candidate you voted for the week before the election drops out two days before the election.
I was planning on working in the garden today, but it's currently raining. Not very hard, but added to Monday's rain, it may make the ground too soft. We shall see.
Tuesday's Livingston concert was in Hartland. We got about 2/3 through the program and it started to rain. Not hard, but there were dark clouds around. So the director skipped to Stars & Stripes and we closed out the concert so that the audience could go home. He asked if we wanted to keep playing, but it was raining on the back of the band (the breeze was blowing rain under the pavilion). So we started to pack up. And then there was a big rumble of thunder and it really started raining. I took my time packing up, hoping that the rain would pass, but people watching the weather on their phones said "it's gonna keep doing this for another 20 minutes or so". Blah. So I trundled off to the car, in the pouring rain. Got soaked on the way. :( Deployed the picnic blanket so I wouldn't get the seat *too* wet, cleaned the raindrops off my glasses (which I had taken off and tucked into my shirt so "they wouldn't get wet", wiped down the condensation on the inside of the windows, and headed home. I was about 20 minutes from the venue when it stopped raining (and I was going in the direction the rain was coming from), so I would have been under the pavilion watching it rain for quite a while.
The primary election is coming up in two weeks. We're still at less than 50% of absentee ballots returned. (to be fair to the voters, I haven't returned mine yet.) Saturday starts Early Voting. I hope we get better turnout than we did in February. "They" all say we will, as people get used to the idea and/or don't mind voting early -- which is sometimes a crapshoot on the Presidential Primary, as the candidate you voted for the week before the election drops out two days before the election.
I was planning on working in the garden today, but it's currently raining. Not very hard, but added to Monday's rain, it may make the ground too soft. We shall see.
