Catching up.

[jennlk]

(looks at date of last post. Egads! How did that happen?)

So, since that last post, I have:

skipped a concert. It was an outdoor concert, and it was 46F at noon. I have no desire to wreck either my instrument or my back. People who actually did play the concert say that it was almost too cold to play, and at least some of the clarinet/oboe/bassoon players brought their student instruments rather than their good ones.

worked in the garden, although perhaps not as much as I should have. It's been alternately either too wet or too cold to step into the gardens, but I have managed to get some of the blackberry lilies cut back before they drop seeds, and I did clear out the area around the pond where J ripped out an evergreen. And weeded the strawberry bed, and thinned the lilac in front of the house.

gone to a couple of fairly hard rehearsals. You'd think we had concerts coming up or something. The Halloween concert is Oct 28. I will probably not make a costume, as they handed us "Selections from The Greatest Showman" (the movie about PT Barnum), so the ringmaster costume I made last year is good.

figured out a library schedule-ish. Aiming for Monday late morning and probably a stop by on the way to erranding on Wednesdays.

pointed out to the managing editor that if she wants a newsletter to the printer by end-of-week, she should probably get me content. I still don't have all of it.

gone to a dyer's event in Hastings, and taken the long way home because I missed a turn in the dark. I knew that the road I was on eventually hit I94, so I wasn't too concerned. I looked up the route on the map when I got home, and it was only about 10 miles longer than the preferred ones, so....

had lunch with my Mum, who was in the area for an all-school reunion. She came through Florence just fine-- the storm turned well south before it hit land, so all Mum got was a few hours of power outage and a few inches (10, I think) of rain. Her sister, in the mountains of NC, just got rain.

gone to a wedding in the UP. Drove up Thursday, drove home Sunday. It was nearly 80F when I was packing, and Friday morning there was nearly an inch of snow on my car in Calumet. Got to see people whom I haven't seen in years (it's been 3 or 4 years since I've been north of the bridge!), and got the nickel tour of a couple of nice big old houses owned by friends. Still don't want to live there (again). Went by the the house we used to live in. They put a new roof on it, and it's horrible - a cheap black metal roof, not even well done on the turret or the extra peak that J's dad and I built on the porch roof so that there wouldn't be a cascade of water onto you as you open the door onto the porch. I suppose they could have found a worse color than black for that house, but I don't know what - it was re-sided in the 1970s, and is a faded harvest gold cementboard siding.

watched garage work come to a screeching halt as J felt that doing things for other people was more important. This is not a new thing. A majority of the tools are back in the garage, but there's still a heap on the deck and the bikes and yard tools haven't found their homes. Ideally, many of them will find a place sometime this week, but....