I like March! Even when there is cold and even snow, it never lasts long in March. We have really had some roller coaster weather this past week. We broke a record on Tuesday when the thermometer hit 85 degrees! And, the next day was in the 20's!!! During the warm days, I was able to trim back most of my perennials. Then it got too cold so I will have to finish this coming week when it will be warm again. When Steve took Fred to Lowes on Friday to buy some plants, he noticed that there were pots of raspberries for sale (not bare root which is a more common way to get raspberry plants) so we returned Saturday evening after attending a baptism and bought four pots. We ARE going to have a robust raspberry bed someday and hopefully, this year will be when that happens....
Orchestra has new music for the final April concert and it is very difficult! Notes that look so simple become challenging when they are written in five flats! So, I am buckling down and practicing to get good fingerings. I went to the first orchestra rehearsal for the Lamb of God that will be performed on Palm Sunday. It is being performed in the O'Fallon, Illinois stake center and I am participating thanks to Emily who has the solo part of Mary Magdalene. I have also recruited two other St. Louis South Stake musicians - Brenda on harp and Jared on 2nd violin. It is a small ensemble but all the musicians are solid and our first rehearsal went well. It will be very fun to do this performance! Oh, I forgot to mention that I am playing BASS in this orchestra! Thankfully, my part is super easy - mostly the I, IV or V notes of the key with occasional quarter notes. My biggest challenge is remembering I am on bass, not cello, so most of the notes are in different places on the fingerboard.
Only one more week until Ramadan and, although I am not Muslim, Steve and I are involved with the Kindness Begins With Me program that works with Muslims and we will not have classes all during the duration of Ramadan. It will be good to have the break to regroup and rebuild our teaching pool. I have had to teach the teen girls class two weeks now and will again this Thursday because we cannot pin down a teacher. Sigh! Below is a photo from the Monday morning women's social gathering. Here they are doing embroidery during the eleven o'clock hour.
Steve and I had more time for movie/television watching this past week. Steve caught A Man For All Seasons on Tuesday night while I was at orchestra. He watched Groundhog Day Thursday night and I saw most of it when I wasn't teaching a cello lesson. We both watched a frustrating movie on Friday night called An Invisible Sign. Most of the film was very bleak and depressing but then everything was sunshine and roses the last ten minutes. Really??? On Saturday night, we watched Lady in the Water - a movie I have watched a couple of times but Steve had never seen !! I have a long-term photo album scanning project I am regularly working on and I have discovered I can multi-task and watch something while I scan. So Steve and have watched three episodes of Bull this past week. And, it was fun to see one of the stars of Bull show up in Lady in the Water (the guy with the really strong right arm and the weak left arm).
Happy month of March, everyone!
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