same ol', same ol'
May. 5th, 2022 08:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jennlkI now have gotten shot twice (Covid booster last week, shingles yesterday) in a week. My arm is sore and I'm creaky all over.
The FCB progresses toward the anniversary concert next week. Prez finally got the score for the soloist's piece, and sent it out to section leaders so that people could figure out their parts. Most people are struggling through the poor scans of the music. One of the trumpet players transcribed the trumpet parts. I really don't know why more people didn't. Even if one doesn't have a program to do it on the computer, certainly one can find (free) printable staff paper on the internet (or buy some at the store) and transcribe by hand.
I have stopped filling the hopper and platform feeders -- there is an outbreak of Highly Infectious Avian Influenza, and the DNR is asking people who have lots of corvids (jays, crows) in their backyard visitors to take down feeders and thus limit the size of flocks. Songbirds are, apparently, much less likely to catch it. The squirrels are quite annoyed by this. I have been putting out the tube feeders still, because the jays and crows don't like them (they're too small), but those come in at night so that the deer and raccoons and squirrels don't empty them.
We have a new pair of sandhill cranes in the yard as well -- well, we think it's a new pair. There were two for a couple of weeks, then just one, and now there's two. One is noticeably smaller than the other. That's another denizen of the backyard that's not too happy with me not putting out as much birdseed.
The big patch of daffodils in the front garden is just about done flowering. I hope that it warms up this weekend so that I can go out there and cut them back. And at least do *some* yardwork, once I get over the creaky from the shots.
The FCB progresses toward the anniversary concert next week. Prez finally got the score for the soloist's piece, and sent it out to section leaders so that people could figure out their parts. Most people are struggling through the poor scans of the music. One of the trumpet players transcribed the trumpet parts. I really don't know why more people didn't. Even if one doesn't have a program to do it on the computer, certainly one can find (free) printable staff paper on the internet (or buy some at the store) and transcribe by hand.
I have stopped filling the hopper and platform feeders -- there is an outbreak of Highly Infectious Avian Influenza, and the DNR is asking people who have lots of corvids (jays, crows) in their backyard visitors to take down feeders and thus limit the size of flocks. Songbirds are, apparently, much less likely to catch it. The squirrels are quite annoyed by this. I have been putting out the tube feeders still, because the jays and crows don't like them (they're too small), but those come in at night so that the deer and raccoons and squirrels don't empty them.
We have a new pair of sandhill cranes in the yard as well -- well, we think it's a new pair. There were two for a couple of weeks, then just one, and now there's two. One is noticeably smaller than the other. That's another denizen of the backyard that's not too happy with me not putting out as much birdseed.
The big patch of daffodils in the front garden is just about done flowering. I hope that it warms up this weekend so that I can go out there and cut them back. And at least do *some* yardwork, once I get over the creaky from the shots.
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Date: 2022-05-05 02:45 pm (UTC)K.