As we closed out August this past week, Steve and I continued to get our energy levels back. We have resumed our morning walks with Fred and I have returned to working in the garden. I decided to harvest my potatoes that I had growing in two small grow bags and this is all I got...
There could be several reasons why I got nothing....I didn't use actual seed potatoes but I just planted some red potatoes I had in my pantry. Even more likely is that they didn't get enough water. The grow bags dry out so quickly and I should have watered them every day. So, I will try again next year with actual seed potatoes and daily watering.
The first part of this week I was pretty consumed with orchestra business. We had auditions Tuesday night so there was a lot of time on the computer getting ready. And, auditions took three hours! Happily, we gained a few more string players and we now have a new principal trumpet player. Also, Tuesday afternoon, I also attended an event sponsored by the Regional Arts Commission that gave the orchestra a sizeable grant this year and so I felt obligated to attend their special RAC event. It was basically an hour and a half of people on stage saying that arts events help promote economic development in a community. Well, duh! We didn't need to spend ninety minutes hearing this. Ten minutes tops would have sufficed. But, I went anyway to represent the Saint Louis Civic Orchestra.
Wednesday evening we hosted the youth from church for a Bishop's fireside. And, with our firepit, it was literally a fireside. We spent some of the day preparing the yard (Steve mowing, me picking up doggie doots) and we provided the refreshments. There were s'mores, of course, but Steve also bought a variety of ice cream treats and, since there are two youth who have to eat gluten-free, I made GF ice cream sandwiches by baking GF chocolate cookies and cutting Neapolitan ice cream into big slices and using a round biscuit cutter to make ice cream rounds to put in the middle of the cookies. They turned out great! It was a fun evening.
the first photo is Steve tending the fire as we awaited everyone to come
Thursday, aside from teaching several lessons, I finished a project I had started a couple months ago. I wanted to know all the orchestral works I have performed throughout my life. My memory is getting so bad that I hear something on the radio and I think "have I played this?" So I went through my scrapbooks to find all the orchestra programs I saved and then I listed what we played on a spread sheet. I have played A LOT of music through the years!
Friday evening, a few of the more artsy folks in the ward got together at the church and did watercoloring. We found a YouTube tutorial of some easy birds and we all painted birds. We are thinking we will try to do this monthly and explore various mediums. It would be super if an art major lived in the ward to teach us but until that happens, there is always good old YouTube!
Saturday, I finally finished a sewing project that I was commissioned to do by a fellow in the ward. I had made him a black and gold pillow earlier in the summer and he liked it so much that he wanted me to make a baby blanket and a pillow for two of his great nieces. Plus, he wanted their names embroidered on them. I would have finished them much sooner but Covid got in the way. The baby is Ne-Leyah and her sixteen year old sister is Ne-Leh. I guess there was method to the madness in naming both girls almost identical names?
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