In which I mutter about "adults"....
Oct. 22nd, 2019 11:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jennlkSo, the FCB has known for a couple of weeks that yesterday's rehearsal was going to be at a different site -- announced at the previous two rehearsals -- and that at least some people would need to bring a chair and/or stand. (Middle school bandrooms don't usually have chairs & stands for 85.) Over the weekend, the FCB board sent out a reminder, reminding us to 1)arrive early and 2)bring a chair and/or stand as assigned. We still had people wandering in at 7:25, without chair or stand. And these people had the nerve to complain about there not being a chair/stand/space for them. Did you not pay attention to the announcements, or the email you got?
In other news, due to the quite nice weather over the weekend, I was able to get a lot of the fall garden cleaning done. I finished weeding around the pond edge, planted some spring bulbs in the space where we yanked out an evergreen -- I think I'll move a couple of larkspur and maybe a california poppy there for summer & fall color, but that's for next year. The front bed by the forsythia is cut back (except for the milkweed and the spiky thing that still has seeds on it) & weeded, and I got the garden by the side door mostly cleared out. There's one more garden space that needs to be cut back/weeded, and I should do some thinning of the daisies & goldenrod. (I really should think about doing the rest of the irises or another peony, and I will if I have time before it gets too cold.)
Of course, due to the garden work I did over the weekend and the hour in the dentist chair on Friday, my back was really cranky yesterday, and still is today. At least it's chilly and rainish out there, so I don't feel quite so guilty about not doing any garden work. Tomorrow is supposed to be cool but sunny and no wind, so I should be able to get something done out there.
Today, I have to either find or make (more likely) a wide black belt for my Halloween costume. I was thinking about making a red w/black trim 'spanish' dress (to go with the Zorro music on the program), and then remembered that I'd made one seven or eight years ago. I found it, it still fits, but the belt is missing. So that's today's project. I'll probably spend an hour putting things away first, though. There's also a stack of turquoise & plum taffetas/satins/embroiderys that I need to decide what to do with - a mix and match set of skirts/vests/victorian-style jackets is my current plan.
In other news, due to the quite nice weather over the weekend, I was able to get a lot of the fall garden cleaning done. I finished weeding around the pond edge, planted some spring bulbs in the space where we yanked out an evergreen -- I think I'll move a couple of larkspur and maybe a california poppy there for summer & fall color, but that's for next year. The front bed by the forsythia is cut back (except for the milkweed and the spiky thing that still has seeds on it) & weeded, and I got the garden by the side door mostly cleared out. There's one more garden space that needs to be cut back/weeded, and I should do some thinning of the daisies & goldenrod. (I really should think about doing the rest of the irises or another peony, and I will if I have time before it gets too cold.)
Of course, due to the garden work I did over the weekend and the hour in the dentist chair on Friday, my back was really cranky yesterday, and still is today. At least it's chilly and rainish out there, so I don't feel quite so guilty about not doing any garden work. Tomorrow is supposed to be cool but sunny and no wind, so I should be able to get something done out there.
Today, I have to either find or make (more likely) a wide black belt for my Halloween costume. I was thinking about making a red w/black trim 'spanish' dress (to go with the Zorro music on the program), and then remembered that I'd made one seven or eight years ago. I found it, it still fits, but the belt is missing. So that's today's project. I'll probably spend an hour putting things away first, though. There's also a stack of turquoise & plum taffetas/satins/embroiderys that I need to decide what to do with - a mix and match set of skirts/vests/victorian-style jackets is my current plan.
