Lamb of God week

Look what our neighbors, James and Pam, gave us earlier this week! I am so sad I can't eat a single one. Steve and I wonder if he works for Krispy Kreme because they are not cheap! 

I was able to do just a little bit of yard work throughout the week - I started transplanting the vinca into the flagpole flower bed and I cleared out the beds with the herbs up by the deck. But that is about all. Thankfully, the creeping phlox don't need any work to be beautiful! And the violets growing up in the back yard are definitely my weed of choice.

It was a BUSY week of rehearsals and performances. On Monday, I drove up to Wash U. to hear the Civic Orchestra's dress rehearsal with the three teenage concerto winners of the Frager contest that the orchestra sponsors every spring. Wow, they were incredibly talented. SO much ability and poise for high schoolers. On Thursday, I drove over to Lucy's middle school to join Emily in seeing the opening night of Legally Blond - The Musical. Lucy was in the chorus. She did a terrific job and, while the actors were not the best singers, their acting was great and I enjoyed the play.

On Friday, I drove to O'Fallon, Illinois (just across the river - literally a 30 minute drive which was exactly how long the drive to Wash U and Ballwin are) for the final dress rehearsal of Lamb of God and, happily, it went waaay better than the full rehearsal we had last Sunday night. And, last night was the performance, which went well, and our final performance was tonight. It was fun to be involved with it again, especially to be playing cello rather than bass, but I am thinking I might not participate next year. I guess we'll see.... Here I am with Holly, the extremely talented high school junior who played the solo cello and David Goff who is also a very talented cellist, even with three fingers on his left hand! (He lost his finger to a table saw - yikes!!!)

The two nights I was actually at home (Tuesday and Wednesday), I watched two animated movies featuring mice!!! Tale of Despereaux on Tuesday and American Tale on Wednesday. I wanted to see American Tale after hearing "Somewhere Out There" being sung. I loved the voices of Madeline Kahn and Dom DeLouis. As for the Tale of Despereaux, I have NO IDEA how it ended up on our movie shelf. Was it a gift? A hand-me-down? Did I buy it even though I don't remember ever seeing it before? Regardless, I thought it was delightful.

I had three morning events that shuffled my regular morning routine up a bit. On Tuesday, we walked with Fred to the polling place to vote for our mayor, comptroller, alderperson and school board. On Wednesday, I drove to the airport to pick up Beckie from her three-day visit with Kyle and Micah in Arkansas. On Friday, the Afghanistan women's group had an additional social to allow girls from Nernix Catholic High School do some volunteer work with the children. 

And, this wraps up a very busy week. May next week be a lot more calm....