Again with melt then snow.
Mar. 5th, 2016 10:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jennlkWe got more snow in February and March than we have all winter. :) By the time Tuesday's snowfall ended, we had at least six inches on the ground -- and it had cooled off so that the last couple of inches was fluffy drifty stuff. SR and I went out about 8pm and shoveled the driveway, just so J and DB could find the thing -- it was a flat expanse of white from the middle of the road to the house. J was at Robotics, and got home about 9:30. DB was in Ypsi, where they got much more ice than we did, and didn't come home until Wednesday morning. There was no school on Wednesday because the back roads were icy. I hear that they were still slippy in spots on Thursday morning.
Thursday was Band & Orchestra Festival at CHS. DB was working it, and the signup sheet had openings a week before the event, so I signed up to work in the auditorium the whole day. When SR found out that they were scheduled to run well after school, she said "tell C I'll be in about 3", knowing (from experience) that a lot of the casual helpers go home. This year, a few of the scheduled guides bugged out (a first for a CHS event!), so it was really nice to have SR show up. She came in during a group's performance, and I didn't see their guide, so I said to her "if X doesn't show, can you take this group to sight reading?". X didn't, so SR did. The schedule had four pairs of guides for the after-school session, but due to people bugging out, there were three singles guiding. I wound up guiding one group from the auditorium to sight reading because all of the guides were busy with other groups. I announced the after school section as well, because a scheduled MSBOA official assumed the event was on Friday and didn't show up. The music was good, as it usually is -- also as usual, I had a few flashbacks to pieces I've played. Two of the orchestras did Finlandia (yes,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jebra, DB and I both thought " Finlandia!"), and I found my hand playing the bass riff about halfway through. One band did Russian Christmas Music, which the FCB played in December, and I was following along on the music (they're halfway down page 1, nasty page turn there, that's a string bass!, missed the frilly bits at the top of page 4, etc). Another band did Africa: Ceremony, Song, and Ritual, which we've played a few times.
The weather people had been saying "scattered flurries, up to 1 inch accumulation" for Thursday, but when we left the HS at 8pm we had to brush over 2 inches of snow off the cars, and after my stop at the grocer I brushed another half-inch off. We got over 3 inches by Friday morning. The sun came out and it got to 45 in the sun, so a lot of it melted, but it started snowing again last night. DB brushed another couple of inches off the car when he left for work this AM, and there's probably 6 inches of snow in the yard.
Thursday was Band & Orchestra Festival at CHS. DB was working it, and the signup sheet had openings a week before the event, so I signed up to work in the auditorium the whole day. When SR found out that they were scheduled to run well after school, she said "tell C I'll be in about 3", knowing (from experience) that a lot of the casual helpers go home. This year, a few of the scheduled guides bugged out (a first for a CHS event!), so it was really nice to have SR show up. She came in during a group's performance, and I didn't see their guide, so I said to her "if X doesn't show, can you take this group to sight reading?". X didn't, so SR did. The schedule had four pairs of guides for the after-school session, but due to people bugging out, there were three singles guiding. I wound up guiding one group from the auditorium to sight reading because all of the guides were busy with other groups. I announced the after school section as well, because a scheduled MSBOA official assumed the event was on Friday and didn't show up. The music was good, as it usually is -- also as usual, I had a few flashbacks to pieces I've played. Two of the orchestras did Finlandia (yes,
jebra, DB and I both thought " Finlandia!"), and I found my hand playing the bass riff about halfway through. One band did Russian Christmas Music, which the FCB played in December, and I was following along on the music (they're halfway down page 1, nasty page turn there, that's a string bass!, missed the frilly bits at the top of page 4, etc). Another band did Africa: Ceremony, Song, and Ritual, which we've played a few times.The weather people had been saying "scattered flurries, up to 1 inch accumulation" for Thursday, but when we left the HS at 8pm we had to brush over 2 inches of snow off the cars, and after my stop at the grocer I brushed another half-inch off. We got over 3 inches by Friday morning. The sun came out and it got to 45 in the sun, so a lot of it melted, but it started snowing again last night. DB brushed another couple of inches off the car when he left for work this AM, and there's probably 6 inches of snow in the yard.
