Morning blahs/updates
Oct. 18th, 2003 06:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
treeskinLast night was singularly unproductive, just felt off kilter all evening. Hope whatever was making Courtney sick yesterday afternoon isn't catching. Blech. Started another temari, but didn't get very far. I take that back, I got far enough to realize the idea I'd been playing with in my head would't work with the division I was using. I got far enough to change my mind and rip it out 3 times. Maybe I got more done that I thought.
The current temari is 3" diam, dark teal/green base, black sparkly marking thread, and a variation of a chrysanthemum pattern, in white and shaded blues. Very graphic. The stitching's about half done.
By doesn't have to be in to work until 6 tonight, so I'll get to see him for a little while after I get home; that'll be nice. Robyn is renting the building for the Hope House Art Auction tonight. By's taking the camera; I guess the decorations are really something this year.
I talked to the lady who runs the Carnegie Recorder Consort in Leavenworth, Betty Strand. She sounded very welcoming. Next rehersal is next Thursday, at 7pm; I'm going to go and see how I like it. I do miss playing with a group, although it sounds like this group does simpler stuff than what I played with Collegium. Funny, she said what they really needed were people on soprano recorders. *blink* I'm still surprised by that. They're working on Christmas music right now, she said.
I got my recorders out last night, dusted off the ones I don't play often. I have a nice boxwood Renaissance-style soprano, originally belonged to By's mother; tone's good until the upper register. The joint between mouthpiece and body isn't tight. By thinks it needs new cork for the joint, and thinks he can do that. My other "good" recorder (good = not plastic) needs a crack filled in the mouthpiece. It's had that since I bought it though; I got it when Westron Wind in Manhattan went out of business. It's my prize--Baroque-style, Moeck brand, ebony with ivory rings. Very easy upper register, lovely to play, but once it gets warmed up, the crack starts buzzing. By says he can fix that too.
If I get the crack filled, I'll take the ebony soprano, and my tenor, and probably my plastic alto just in case. I'd like to replace the alto someday, but I haven't been playing enough recently to justify it.
Pobably going to spend this evening catching up on phone calls; it's a good thing to do when I'm spending the evening by myself. Haven't called Mom this week (oops!), and haven't talked to Brenda in a long time. Might pester Woody, if he's not too busy doing homework.
Got a non-string project planned for this weekend. My "show drawer" of temari is getting full, and I need another storage system for the ones I'm not going to give away. I'm going to try makig bottoms and lids for some of the cardboard tubes By's been bringing home (it's a lont story, ask him if you really want to know), line them with trash sacks filched from work, and use those for storage. I'd be able to sort the temari by color or size, and write such things on the tube, then stack them out of the way, where I won't raid the "save for a show" stash for presents this holiday season. Meanwhile, I'll still have a drawer partly full of temari, that are for presents. It's organized! Or it will be if it works.
My other weekend project is to dig up some of the eucalyptus plants, pot them, and move them into the greenhouse. They ought to be okay there for the winter; euc's are supposed to be hardy to about 20 degrees.
That reminds me, must remember to snag a small bag of mulch today, so I can tuck mulch around the bonsai for the winter. And run through the greenhouse garden and get some more peppers to freeze, and marigolds for petal beads (I used the ones I picked last time for something else).
The current temari is 3" diam, dark teal/green base, black sparkly marking thread, and a variation of a chrysanthemum pattern, in white and shaded blues. Very graphic. The stitching's about half done.
By doesn't have to be in to work until 6 tonight, so I'll get to see him for a little while after I get home; that'll be nice. Robyn is renting the building for the Hope House Art Auction tonight. By's taking the camera; I guess the decorations are really something this year.
I talked to the lady who runs the Carnegie Recorder Consort in Leavenworth, Betty Strand. She sounded very welcoming. Next rehersal is next Thursday, at 7pm; I'm going to go and see how I like it. I do miss playing with a group, although it sounds like this group does simpler stuff than what I played with Collegium. Funny, she said what they really needed were people on soprano recorders. *blink* I'm still surprised by that. They're working on Christmas music right now, she said.
I got my recorders out last night, dusted off the ones I don't play often. I have a nice boxwood Renaissance-style soprano, originally belonged to By's mother; tone's good until the upper register. The joint between mouthpiece and body isn't tight. By thinks it needs new cork for the joint, and thinks he can do that. My other "good" recorder (good = not plastic) needs a crack filled in the mouthpiece. It's had that since I bought it though; I got it when Westron Wind in Manhattan went out of business. It's my prize--Baroque-style, Moeck brand, ebony with ivory rings. Very easy upper register, lovely to play, but once it gets warmed up, the crack starts buzzing. By says he can fix that too.
If I get the crack filled, I'll take the ebony soprano, and my tenor, and probably my plastic alto just in case. I'd like to replace the alto someday, but I haven't been playing enough recently to justify it.
Pobably going to spend this evening catching up on phone calls; it's a good thing to do when I'm spending the evening by myself. Haven't called Mom this week (oops!), and haven't talked to Brenda in a long time. Might pester Woody, if he's not too busy doing homework.
Got a non-string project planned for this weekend. My "show drawer" of temari is getting full, and I need another storage system for the ones I'm not going to give away. I'm going to try makig bottoms and lids for some of the cardboard tubes By's been bringing home (it's a lont story, ask him if you really want to know), line them with trash sacks filched from work, and use those for storage. I'd be able to sort the temari by color or size, and write such things on the tube, then stack them out of the way, where I won't raid the "save for a show" stash for presents this holiday season. Meanwhile, I'll still have a drawer partly full of temari, that are for presents. It's organized! Or it will be if it works.
My other weekend project is to dig up some of the eucalyptus plants, pot them, and move them into the greenhouse. They ought to be okay there for the winter; euc's are supposed to be hardy to about 20 degrees.
That reminds me, must remember to snag a small bag of mulch today, so I can tuck mulch around the bonsai for the winter. And run through the greenhouse garden and get some more peppers to freeze, and marigolds for petal beads (I used the ones I picked last time for something else).
