a somewhat less busy week
Oct. 4th, 2024 05:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jennlkbut I still didn't get into the garden. Tomorrow for sure! (whenever I was home last week, it was either too wet to be in the garden or I was working on the laundry room.)
The FCB did a concert at Franklin Cider Mill on Sunday -- two weeks earlier than we're usually scheduled there, *and* earlier in the day. It was still 6 hours from when I started packing the car to when everything was unpacked. sigh. It rained off and on all day Sunday, but *not* while we were playing, so that was very good. Had the wipers on for much of the drive there and back. Monday we did a deep dive into the tricky piece for the October concert, and run-throughs on the less difficult pieces. Tuesday's LCCB rehearsal was working on tricky parts for *that* concert, which is a week before Farmington's. One of the pieces we're doing in Livingston is one that SR played when she was in HS, so I'm having flashbacks to her in front of the microphone singing the sax solo (so that ZM wouldn't go all loud and stompy on it).
Monday and Wednesday and Friday, J and I did more work on the laundry room. OK, he did most of the work, I provided recommendations/design preferences and "heavy analytical work" (aka "hold this"). I think the actual construction work is done in there. I still have a box of stuff in the front room that needs to be sorted as to whether it goes back into the laundry room or somewhere else. The rack for the recycling bins went in yesterday. I still need to find a boot tray for the room -- the one that SR had in her apartments would be great, but I think it went away; whether to the rummage sale or with DB to OH, I do not know. The boot tray I bought today doesn't fit.
Work days are getting long, as election work is ramping up. Between ballots going out and ballots coming in, and voters coming in to replace spoiled ballots, and trying to figure out who is actually going to be able & willing to work on Election Day.... (and BC's husband is having back trouble, and DC's husband is having heart trouble, and the computers are doing weird shit, and "can you proofread this", and oh-by-the-way 'what carpet do you want in your new office?'.)
The FCB did a concert at Franklin Cider Mill on Sunday -- two weeks earlier than we're usually scheduled there, *and* earlier in the day. It was still 6 hours from when I started packing the car to when everything was unpacked. sigh. It rained off and on all day Sunday, but *not* while we were playing, so that was very good. Had the wipers on for much of the drive there and back. Monday we did a deep dive into the tricky piece for the October concert, and run-throughs on the less difficult pieces. Tuesday's LCCB rehearsal was working on tricky parts for *that* concert, which is a week before Farmington's. One of the pieces we're doing in Livingston is one that SR played when she was in HS, so I'm having flashbacks to her in front of the microphone singing the sax solo (so that ZM wouldn't go all loud and stompy on it).
Monday and Wednesday and Friday, J and I did more work on the laundry room. OK, he did most of the work, I provided recommendations/design preferences and "heavy analytical work" (aka "hold this"). I think the actual construction work is done in there. I still have a box of stuff in the front room that needs to be sorted as to whether it goes back into the laundry room or somewhere else. The rack for the recycling bins went in yesterday. I still need to find a boot tray for the room -- the one that SR had in her apartments would be great, but I think it went away; whether to the rummage sale or with DB to OH, I do not know. The boot tray I bought today doesn't fit.
Work days are getting long, as election work is ramping up. Between ballots going out and ballots coming in, and voters coming in to replace spoiled ballots, and trying to figure out who is actually going to be able & willing to work on Election Day.... (and BC's husband is having back trouble, and DC's husband is having heart trouble, and the computers are doing weird shit, and "can you proofread this", and oh-by-the-way 'what carpet do you want in your new office?'.)
