Snow!

Feb. 26th, 2020 09:51 am
jennlk: (snowflake)
(in February, who knew?) 3 inches so far, with 3 more expected by the time it stops late tonight. I scattered birdseed on the ground this morning, but it's all covered (or eaten) already. I'll need to put out more when I go out to shovel.

Theoretically, I will be working at the MSBOA festival at the high school tomorrow, but that's subject to change. Depends on when the snow stops and if the county road commission thinks they'll have the back roads passable for buses by the morning.

FCB rehearsal on Monday was hard, if a bit short. The upcoming concert is a shared performance with a HS, so we don't have to fill an entire program by ourselves. DC is less than pleased with one of the pieces the other director picked for a joint performance -- it's one of J Curnow's less well written pieces, and much of it makes no sense. The band director sitting next to me claims that it's a 'show off' piece, rather than 'good music'. He says he looked at doing it once with his band, but never did. I think one of my kids played it -- probably EU, as her band was better at wringing music out of notes than DB's was. Drive home was only icky, not fraught, as it was still just rain. There was half an inch of snow on the ground Tuesday AM, but it melted by noon.

LCCB rehearsal was, oddly, *not* hard. Last rehearsal before the concert, and he just ran everything. I had a question about a rogue pp in Banner, as it's written in on my part, but no-one else did it. Apparently, DC added it in for the FCB - I copied the FCB part because LCCB didn't have a proper BSax part. The librarian tried to tell me that one didn't exist, and then I showed up with one at the next rehearsal. Drive home was beginning to be fraught -- not quite to 'hyperspeed'*, but snow falling, getting deeper the farther west I went, and the road was pretty much invisible under the even coating of fresh snow.

grumbly bits )

(* hyperspeed - when driving in a moderate-to-heavy snowfall at night, turn on the high beams. "Hyperspeed" effects ensue.)
jennlk: (pink tulips)
Gosh, I hope so. We got nearly an inch of snow overnight Saturday, and as of Tuesday morning there were still patches in the yard with snow on them. I did not get all the cottonwood branches raked up last week. I got four wheelbarrow loads done, with a couple more to go, before I had to stop to make dinner. That evening, J took the wheelbarrow out to the easement to move rocks, and the rocks are still in it. I'll extract the garden cart from the shed tomorrow so I can finish the raking.

The Music Boosters newsletter is just about done. Still waiting to hear back from directors on whether I got names right, and there was some discussion about trying to get pictures into this issue. I came down hard on the side of "No", as there's really not space and we don't have publication releases for the kids. The new plan is to do a quick one-sheet newsletter for the spring wave of concerts, and have pictures of *all* the All State & Festival performers.

Today the articles for the UMW newsletter started popping into my inbox. It's rather a slow process, as a few of the authors don't start writing until after they're reminded to do so. The plan is to have this one off to the printer by next week, but I'm not gonna hold my breath. I think this is the last year I'll do this newsletter. WE is the new comm. coordinator, and she took most of the same layout classes I did at Tech....

I did something late last week that aggravated the tendinitis in my thumb, and set me back about four weeks of recovery. blargh.

DB tells me that the uber-annoying auditorium manager managed to get himself fired and relieved of duties in the middle of the school year/his contract. ouch. That's not going to look good on a CV. (according to the student grapevine, every student tech and half the theater kids went to admin and said that they would not work for CM.) JM, the senior Senior Tech (who was also threatening to resign due to CM), is now Acting Auditorium Manager, so DB texted him and said "CM is gone. Do you need me for anything?" "H377 yes!" So now DB is working the stage shows and the HS Collage concert this weekend, the ballet next weekend, and who knows what after that....

Profile

jennlk: (Default)
jennlk

May 2025

S M T W T F S
    1 23
4567 8910
1112131415 1617
1819202122 2324
25262728293031

Syndicate

RSS Atom

Most Popular Tags

Style Credit

Expand Cut Tags

No cut tags
Page generated May. 25th, 2025 02:44 pm
Powered by Dreamwidth Studios