competency, etc
Jun. 2nd, 2023 10:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jennlkI will be playing at Belle Isle two weeks in a row. :) By choice, so I can't really complain. The Farmington Band is scheduled for June 28 in the MOBIG River Blast! series, and the LCCB has been asked to fill out numbers/instrumentation for a performance on July 5. LCCB's band director (DM) also works with a couple of bands in the northern suburbs of Detroit, who will be combining for a performance, and DM has asked for volunteers from the LCCB. I like playing on Belle Isle, even though it *is* a long drive (I will spend more time driving than playing, but that's pretty common), so I volunteered. (If it was going to be the third day in a row of playing, I might have declined the opportunity, but there's no FCB rehearsal that week and no LCCB concert on Tuesday, so....)
We have had no measurable rain for a couple of weeks, and it's been warm and sunny, so I am done weeding for a while. There's not much point when the weeds break off at ground level. I do need to find the Sevin and douse the lilies -- they're looking a little bit chomped. There is one bronze iris this morning along with a lot of white ones. There will be more bronze ones later, and the purple ones will be along shortly -- the buds are forming, but not ready to bloom yet. The first of the white peonies opened a couple of days ago, and today there's a lot of them.
A few years ago, we attempted to tear out the rose bush next to the deck. We planted a few stems in a spot that got a reasonable amount of sun at the time, but in the years since, the nearby tree has widened its canopy considerably, and the roses are struggling with not a lot of sun. They're growing really well, but not blooming, so I think we'll have to move them this year. (There are still roses growing off the original root stock next to the deck - they're blooming, even -- so we did not actually succeed in tearing it out. Another job for later in the summer.)
We have had no measurable rain for a couple of weeks, and it's been warm and sunny, so I am done weeding for a while. There's not much point when the weeds break off at ground level. I do need to find the Sevin and douse the lilies -- they're looking a little bit chomped. There is one bronze iris this morning along with a lot of white ones. There will be more bronze ones later, and the purple ones will be along shortly -- the buds are forming, but not ready to bloom yet. The first of the white peonies opened a couple of days ago, and today there's a lot of them.
A few years ago, we attempted to tear out the rose bush next to the deck. We planted a few stems in a spot that got a reasonable amount of sun at the time, but in the years since, the nearby tree has widened its canopy considerably, and the roses are struggling with not a lot of sun. They're growing really well, but not blooming, so I think we'll have to move them this year. (There are still roses growing off the original root stock next to the deck - they're blooming, even -- so we did not actually succeed in tearing it out. Another job for later in the summer.)
