whoosh! as time flies by....
Oct. 20th, 2025 09:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jennlkI got the NW garden cut back to just the things that have seeds or flowers still on them. I pulled the phlox (pulling it out in the fall gives the daffodils a chance to show off in the spring), cut back the coneflowers, and thinned the goldenrod. Because the phlox is so thick, and I never did get the daffodil leaves cleared in the spring, the soil out there was not rock-hard, so I was able to pull a lot of grass. It's sunny today, and I really should get out to the east garden and finish cutting back things there, but we actually got rain yesterday(!) and I don't want to walk in a wet garden. They tell us that it may rain some more this week, but dry on the weekend. When I have another concert, and a whole pile of Halloween decor to prep for it.
The Livingston halloween concert yesterday went pretty well. The french horns won the costume contest - they were "very French horns", and had wine bottles and baguettes and French flags and berets. We did our swan costumes, again. I suspect we'll be doing them until they stop making the swan hats. Some of us had 'baby swans' - the section leader wound up with two beanie baby swans, and gave one to me. I need to find a better way to wear it for next year -- I don't want to pin it to the hat, but the shoulder thing I came up with this year wasn't stable. Maybe a framework on the hat? We played music from a lot of Westerns, and I was wandering through the pet section at Meijer, and there was a cowboy outfit for a dog with a small black cowboy hat. I bought it for my swan....
I have been working on my FCB costume. Actually buying bits for it this year, because I just don't have time to build anything. To be fair, the bit I got this year is a wig, and those are hard to make.
BossClerk is really starting to look for a proper Deputy Clerk (one who lives in the township and can actually follow her as clerk), so I've been doing a lot of job tracking (it's 90% filing). The hard part of finding a Clerk is that it's really two jobs in one (Accounts Payable and Elections), no benefits, and for all that it's the highest paying job at the township hall, it's still not a lot of money.
The Livingston halloween concert yesterday went pretty well. The french horns won the costume contest - they were "very French horns", and had wine bottles and baguettes and French flags and berets. We did our swan costumes, again. I suspect we'll be doing them until they stop making the swan hats. Some of us had 'baby swans' - the section leader wound up with two beanie baby swans, and gave one to me. I need to find a better way to wear it for next year -- I don't want to pin it to the hat, but the shoulder thing I came up with this year wasn't stable. Maybe a framework on the hat? We played music from a lot of Westerns, and I was wandering through the pet section at Meijer, and there was a cowboy outfit for a dog with a small black cowboy hat. I bought it for my swan....
I have been working on my FCB costume. Actually buying bits for it this year, because I just don't have time to build anything. To be fair, the bit I got this year is a wig, and those are hard to make.
BossClerk is really starting to look for a proper Deputy Clerk (one who lives in the township and can actually follow her as clerk), so I've been doing a lot of job tracking (it's 90% filing). The hard part of finding a Clerk is that it's really two jobs in one (Accounts Payable and Elections), no benefits, and for all that it's the highest paying job at the township hall, it's still not a lot of money.
