The leaves are still green but, brrrr, it has been chilly this week. I got to turn off our AC and wear a jacket and I had cooked cereal for breakfast yesterday....all signs of fall
Here is the weekly update on Steve and me…..
Steve is doing better.
Mr. Kidney Stone (the size of a small pepper corn) left Monday
afternoon. Poor Steve. I had a doctor visit on Tuesday morning – I finally
decided that my right hand grip was not going to start feeling better on its
own (it has been bothering me off and on for three years!) and I had also developed a painful Achilles tendon that has kept me from
walking for exercise these past two weeks so that needed some medical attention,
too. I am waiting for a hand brace to
arrive at the pharmacy and I guess there are also some shoe inserts to help the
ankle.
We had some fun events to look forward to this
week.
Civic Orchestra has not started up yet – because our
conductor is touring with his group, Alarm Will Sound, in Europe – so Tuesday
night, Siri Geenen decided to gather some of her lady friends from orchestra
and elsewhere for food and visiting. There
was a beautiful spread of food brought by everyone. Mary Manulek is a cellist in CCO and she also
has a gluten-free bakery business (her husband is celiac) so she brought some delicious
things that I could eat. After we were
through stuffing ourselves, we watched a wonderful little documentary called “The
Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life”.
It featured a Holocaust survivor
who was a professional pianist and still alive and playing at the age of
109.
Sarah and I attended a painting session at The Canvas yesterday.
I guess you can tell where I will be putting
my creation. We both had a lot of fun.
Saturday evening, Steve and I had TWO dinner
opportunities! We started at a meal for
members of the J. Reuben Clark Law Society here in mid-Missouri. We enjoyed barbeque- mmmmm. Then, we made an appearance at the Bear Creek
Ward chili cook-off at the meetinghouse.
Both events were outside and by the time we got to the church,
temperatures had cooled off quite a bit. I had not brought a jacket so I was chilly and we left fairly soon after arriving.
Saturday was a busy day because we also had our second
RTO rehearsal. My appearance on Radio
Friends with Paul Pepper back in August brought two woodwinds to our
ensemble. They are sisters and one plays flute and one plays clarinet. They have to be in their seventies but they still
sounded pretty good on their instruments.
We also have a horn player from a previous Radio Friends appearance who
has been quite the recruiter for our group.
She found another flute player as well as a trumpet player who plays fairly well. It was a great rehearsal.
Speaking of instruments, Gertrude, my cello, is taking a
road trip to Iowa tomorrow to visit a “cello spa”. Mary, who I mentioned earlier in this blog,
is from Iowa and she knows a luthier up there who is so good that many cellists
from here in Columbia take their instruments to him. Mary’s husband is going up to Iowa tomorrow
for a few days and he was already taking Carol Elliot’s cello (she is principal cellist in CCO) so I am sending
Gertrude to get a different bridge. I
had to have a new one put on about a year ago by a fellow here in town and it
just didn’t sound the same when he was done.
We all think the reason is because he uses thicker bridges. So, Gertrude is being fitted for a skinnier
bridge – hopefully, she will sound like her old self again when she returns.
Steve and I watched “Divergent” Friday night. Of the three post-apocalyptic films I have
seen recently: Hunger Games, Divergent,
and The Giver, I have to say The Giver was the best. It was certainly the least violent.
That's all, folks
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