There was a week in there, I think.
Nov. 18th, 2021 10:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jennlkDid some yardwork, although not as much as I should have, but it was cold and/or rainy. (well, and there was snow last week that lasted for a couple of days. It's melted now -- we had a really warm day yesterday, with rain squalls in the evening.) There are still trees losing leaves, so we probably won't be done with raking for another week or so. Unless the wind blows our leaves down the street, in which case we won't need to rake, just pick up corn leaves that blew in from the field. If we don't get snow/rain today, I should be able to go do some raking tomorrow -- too wet today. J did go out on Sunday and drove the lawn tractor around with the leaf sweeper on it, so there's many fewer leaves in the yard than there were.
Much of what I've been doing is transferring the contents of SR's dressers into boxes, with the ultimate goal of sending the bedroom set off to ShareHouse/ReStore and moving my computer *out* of the living room. The dressers are now empty, but I need to move the LEGO off the top of the tall one before we can move it. I have the shelf to put in on, now I just have to do it. :) She has a *lot* of assembled LEGO, mostly HP.
Music is being music - the FCB is being ambitious (when isn't it?), and there's a lot of music in the folder, some of which we will play at the concert on December 12. LCCB's concert is December 5. I'm flailing a bit on Sleigh Ride, as I've never played this part. And since "everyone knows it", rehearsal speed is performance speed. And they fall into the "sleigh race" camp for speed. The FCB takes it a bit slower, because there's some really nice music in there that gets lost when played too fast. In more muttering, the lead sax in LCCB can't swing. The bari player and I both can. We're doing "In The Christmas Mood" (a kind of dorky but somewhat amusing selection of popular holiday music in a swing style), and apparently they spent about half an hour of last week's rehearsal working on the sax part. Once I stopped trying to match her style and went with the bari, it was easier, but now the director is annoyed because the saxes aren't all playing together. :shrug: what can you do?
Much of what I've been doing is transferring the contents of SR's dressers into boxes, with the ultimate goal of sending the bedroom set off to ShareHouse/ReStore and moving my computer *out* of the living room. The dressers are now empty, but I need to move the LEGO off the top of the tall one before we can move it. I have the shelf to put in on, now I just have to do it. :) She has a *lot* of assembled LEGO, mostly HP.
Music is being music - the FCB is being ambitious (when isn't it?), and there's a lot of music in the folder, some of which we will play at the concert on December 12. LCCB's concert is December 5. I'm flailing a bit on Sleigh Ride, as I've never played this part. And since "everyone knows it", rehearsal speed is performance speed. And they fall into the "sleigh race" camp for speed. The FCB takes it a bit slower, because there's some really nice music in there that gets lost when played too fast. In more muttering, the lead sax in LCCB can't swing. The bari player and I both can. We're doing "In The Christmas Mood" (a kind of dorky but somewhat amusing selection of popular holiday music in a swing style), and apparently they spent about half an hour of last week's rehearsal working on the sax part. Once I stopped trying to match her style and went with the bari, it was easier, but now the director is annoyed because the saxes aren't all playing together. :shrug: what can you do?
