spoke too soon

Still some problems with blogger. I posted this Tuesday night via phone before hitting the sack and Wednesday morning I wake up to find it stuck in the system and I have to manually enter it via laptop. It looks like the real solution is going to have to be going back to using a camera and a laptop, but dang....it sure was easier snapping a pic on my phone during the day and being able to add it to a post.

Happy lettuces, in the rain.

testing testing

Please let this work,
please let this work,
please let this work...

(snapped on my phone today while in the "Japanese dollar store" earlier today)

Tap tap. This thing on????

wellllp...

....I still haven't figured it out. But something is awry with posts containing photos, and that is a big fat problem for me.



Stay tuned.

something's amiss!

Hmm!!  It would seem the last two day's posts are hung up in space, somewhere between my phone and my blog!

I have to get MyFavoriteKid out the door this morning to a practice SAT thing-a-majig, but when I get back to my laptop, I'll work out the kinks.

snaps on saturday

Let's see.

Home last night from concert and picking up MyFavoriteKid from his band competition around 11:30pm, asleep by 12 midnight.
Alarm went off at 5:45am and we were back at the high school by 7am for today's competition.

I am wiped.
MyFK is more wiped.

Only 1 more week of Winter Drumline season, with one last competition next Saturday (the Championship Finals).

Fuzzy phone photos from today.
First up:  One school's routine was set to a medley Bugs Bunny tunes.
Complete with Silly Wabbit.

Later on was a "Surf's Up" (aka Wipeout) routine......

...complete with tinfoil shark fin.

Our crews today....first our B-Line

Then the A-Line (MyFk's group)

Sorry for the lousy pics.  I forgot my real camera. Only had my phone.  And these kids move around too much!!

Exhausted. Off to bed. 
Little shindig at TheNewDiggs tomorrow, and I have to get up early to hostess!

f f f friday!

 

SFJAZZ Center, Lincoln Center Orchestra w/Wynton Marsalis.

A.M.A.Z.I.N.G. !!

look ma! no needles!

A hook!

THAT would be the results of my first attempts at crochet! Single, double, half-double, and triple....all taught to me today in about an hour by one of the ladies at the Senior Center Knitting Social group I facilitate.

New tricks up my sleeve! Yay!

in less than one week's time

Last Thursday, and now today....many new leaves on the peach tree.
Spring has sprung!!

girl shoe(s)

It has been a very long time since I have bought a pair of shoes (which for me is just A SHOE) that is this girly.

Of course when I took this photo in the light of day, I failed to get the heel in the shot, but it's just a little short one or one and a half inch thing. That, however, is usually too much for me! Just about ANY heel doesn't work for me when I'm using crutches (I usually lurch forward and feel like I am going to fall smack on my face) but somehow, this one works!  I'm tickled, and feel like I can go play dress up now :-)

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Because sometimes girls get silly about things.
(and because I am a girl)

may i suggest....

I just finished watching this movie about dancer and choreographer Pina Bausch.  Nothing short of riveting and inspirational.  It is clear to me that she has influenced a few choreographers I have worked with before.  It is so much fun to watch movement go to unexpected places. I couldn't take my eyes away from the screen.

If you're into dance, give it a little look-see.  Streamable on Netflix ;-)

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Backstage at the Rakkasah (belly dance festival), ready to hit the stage!

merde

Flowers from my friend Jan. She came to our dress rehearsal last night (along with a couple other ladies of TheFridayKnittingGroup). Today she brought me good luck flowers, and tomorrow we perform! 

in the garden

YeOldHaus.....peach and cherry blossoms, yard is alive with birds.
 I'd put out a "Beware of Cats" sign for them, but I don't think they'd read it.

I've never done this before, but this might be the year I "bell the cat" and attach something noisy to their collars (at least during the daytime). 
They are gonna be so pissed.

take that.

)

knitting group would have been much more fun

Passed on meeting up with my group of Stitchers tonight so I could attend a College Financial Preparedness seminar at the high school.

Talk about anxiety producing.

Knitting would have been much more fun.

garden inspiration

Wine bottle retaining wall.

Must throw more parties.

so maybe i should stop planning sometimes

Wow, today was productive, and we didn't even plan for it to be.

The only real thing on the books today was recovering from (danged stupid, if you ask me) Daylight Savings Time, and then MyFavoriteKid had a private drum lesson followed by some time with his girlfriend.

TheMostImportantGuy had the whole day free, and believe me, we probably could have spent it just laying around relaxing...but instead we decided on a whim to clean out the garage at TheNewDiggs.  There was one corner of it still holding left over construction materials from last summer's bathroom remodel, including the old toilet and shower door.  There was also a bunch of random things that we'd set aside for the garage sale that we'll probably never have.

We pulled it all out, then we called our regular guy for odd jobs and hauling, and lo and behold, he was free to do it today (I figured we'd call and make a plan for sometime during the week...but same day service! woohoo!).

By the end of the day he had hauled away the junk and agreed to get the stuff that could be re-purposed into a salvage yard.  He also got rid of some debris left behind in the back forty, which now makes the property looking quite spic and span!  Then TheMIG and I hauled some of the smaller usable items over to Goodwill. Before we left I got out the shop vac and cleaned the whole place spic and span.

All done. One afternoon. Pretty great.

And now we get to chip away at the garage at YeOldHouse, which will NOT be a one day task, I am sure. But I am hoping bit by bit we'll have it under raps just as easily.  We're going to have to. Because eventually I'm outta here!

snaps on saturday

All band all the time day.

Feeding the Herd. Warm up rehearsal. Awards ceremony. Pep talk.