jennlk | more following up.

Off to the ortho again today, for cast removal, etc. Nurse cut the cast off -- smelly in there, but not too bad, probably because it was an open toe cast -- and left us for 20 minutes or so to let the skin dry out, etc. There is still a bruise (bright black/purple) on the outside of his foot, and the ankle is still somewhat swollen. Doc came in, looked at it a bit, and recasted. DB asked for a Glow-in-the-Dark cast this time :). Off to Xray to make sure the foot is angled properly, and to see how the crack is healing. Doc says it's definitely healing properly, and gave DB a sole so he can walk on it. Sometimes. And not very far. and slowly, but still...he doesn't have to use the crutches *all* the time. In other news, the doc's daughter is one of DB's friends from school, and has been since first grade. heh.

In musical small world news: SR went to Solo & Ensemble Festival this year, in a saxophone quartet. They earned a 1, and will be playing at the State Festival. (State S&E is in Chelsea, at the high school. Wonder if I'll be able to find the venue?) Their adjudicator was

johnridley's band director in middle/high school.

In personal music news, I am doing far too much sight reading. I spent 75 minutes sight reading voice on Sunday, and another 5 minutes on flute. Then last night I wandered up to Farmington for band rehearsal, and we spent the last half of it reading stuff I'd never seen (mostly operatic overtures transcribed for band -- odd, that, seeing as the March concert is entitled Overture Hit Parade), after spending the first half of rehearsal on Grainger's Lincolnshire Posey. There are twiddles I've never seen before. And Esme is not the most reactive horn I've ever played -- mostly because she's old, and they've developed some better key patterns and mechanisms since she was built in the early 1960s. The bari they have at CHS is 40 years newer, and has much faster action. (It also cost nearly 4 times what Esme did, and doesn't quite have the richness of tone.)

SR's band is playing RVW's Flourish for Wind Band for the MSBOA festival later this month. She mentioned to her band director that I had played it with the FCB in October. So now he's really begun thinking about inviting band parents who still play to join their kids on stage for a piece. (There are a half dozen parents that *I* know of who still play, and I'm sure there are more that I'm not aware of.)