It's raining again.

[jennlk]

(there's a song in there somewhere....)

Notes on notes:

• New music for the FCB concert on Sunday, although there's a decent possibility we'll get rained out. (weather folk tell us there's a more than 50% chance of thunderstorms on Sunday afternoon.) We also got some things just for the two concerts after that, and shuffled the rest a bit. Some things that work in a bandshell/indoor don't work outside, and the FoxRun gig tends to have a few more patriotic pieces.


• The LCCB concert on Tuesday was warm (it wasn't really hot -- I've played FCB concerts in much warmer weather -- but it's on pavement and the sun was beating down). Went pretty well, I think. The director had everybody close up the rows so it was easier to hear. Sightreading concerts is fun! fsvo. one more concert in Brighton, then a week off and then to Fowlerville. Next week we're doing a few things that I've done with tthe FCB, and while that helps, I do have to pay attention because they don't do them the way that DC does. And one of them I played the tuba part because the BSax part was missing.

It's been raining off and on all week. I was able to get two of the strawberry beds weeded Tuesday and Wednesday. I probably won't be able to do any weeding today, as it's raining now. I did get the peony bed weeded over the weekend, and cut off a lot of broken peony stems. The pale pink peonies bloomed on Monday, and a second wave of white ones did as well. I also was able to get the flower bed up by the forsythia cleared out a bit -- there's still more work to do out there, but I really needed to weed the strawberry beds before the strawberry plants got swallowed by weeds.

Comments

[minnehaha]

Any fruit yet? The wild strawbs I brought here from my mom's in the U.P. have white berries, nothing red at this point. I think the chipmunks eat them all, anyway.

K.

[jennlk]

I've gotten a few berries out of the patch, but mostly the birds or ants have gotten them, or they've rotted on the vine in the rain. I wasn't able to do the fall garden work that I usually do, so this year is a bit sparse. I picked the ripe ones while I was weeding, and there were a few more that would have been ripe yesterday, but it rained all day. They may have ripened, but it's too wet to check. I'll wait for the dew to dry off, and then check the status of the gardens -- everything is soaking wet right now.