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Winter to summer
Apr. 14th, 2023 05:36 pmOur temperatures have drastically shot up in the last week - they're predicted to come down again, but right now we seem to be experiencing summer instead of spring. Thanks, global warming. Has been nice to see the buds on the trees come out overnight, though.
Since we're staying in our place for another year, I've been setting up a garden, and I finally did the thing this year and ordered seeds for vegetables to start indoors! Got a whole bunch of little seedlings coming up now. I'm already feeling a little for the basil, because the seeds were so tiny that I accidentally dropped in more than I meant to, and I'm going to have to thin them a lot... sorry, baby plants!
The other week, S invited me last-minute to a string concert downtown because he could get a bunch of free student tickets. The tickets put us in the third row - it was on the edge of being too loud for me at the loudest, so I wouldn't have minded sitting a little further back, but it was also nice to be able to see the instruments and the interactions between the players so closely. While I don't know much about music, every piece they played sounded lovely to me, and I really enjoyed the concert.
S brought two of his kids as well, who are 5 and 8, and they did a better job of sitting quietly than I probably would have at that age, although the younger one did seem bored at first. Their favorite was the bass and the woman playing it - they started imitating her at the very end, haha - and afterward, S took them over and asked if she would be okay showing them the instrument, which she was.
S, being far more gregarious than I am, also waited to ask the soloist for a picture, and then we caught a few orchestra members leaving and he wanted to talk to them as well. At first I was a little ??? as to why everyone could speak German with S and the kids (and some of them Russian as well), because either they hadn't mentioned the name of the orchestra during the introduction or I hadn't paying attention when they did, and since it was so last-minute I knew nothing about the concert - it turned out that was because it was a European orchestra based in a German-speaking country. (And you visited our not-particularly-large town?! We do have a very nice music hall, so I hope they enjoyed playing there.) S also heard from the orchestra members that the soloist was playing a borrowed Stradivarius. Can't imagine the insurance premiums on something like that.
(Meanwhile, Stars on Ice won't even visit anywhere in our state this year. I've heard they weren't doing so hot nowadays, but only eight cities on the tour? Jeez. The nearest stop is four hours away from me, so if I decide I really want to see Jason and Satton and Loena perform, I'd probably have to make a weekend trip out of it.)
Since we're staying in our place for another year, I've been setting up a garden, and I finally did the thing this year and ordered seeds for vegetables to start indoors! Got a whole bunch of little seedlings coming up now. I'm already feeling a little for the basil, because the seeds were so tiny that I accidentally dropped in more than I meant to, and I'm going to have to thin them a lot... sorry, baby plants!
The other week, S invited me last-minute to a string concert downtown because he could get a bunch of free student tickets. The tickets put us in the third row - it was on the edge of being too loud for me at the loudest, so I wouldn't have minded sitting a little further back, but it was also nice to be able to see the instruments and the interactions between the players so closely. While I don't know much about music, every piece they played sounded lovely to me, and I really enjoyed the concert.
S brought two of his kids as well, who are 5 and 8, and they did a better job of sitting quietly than I probably would have at that age, although the younger one did seem bored at first. Their favorite was the bass and the woman playing it - they started imitating her at the very end, haha - and afterward, S took them over and asked if she would be okay showing them the instrument, which she was.
S, being far more gregarious than I am, also waited to ask the soloist for a picture, and then we caught a few orchestra members leaving and he wanted to talk to them as well. At first I was a little ??? as to why everyone could speak German with S and the kids (and some of them Russian as well), because either they hadn't mentioned the name of the orchestra during the introduction or I hadn't paying attention when they did, and since it was so last-minute I knew nothing about the concert - it turned out that was because it was a European orchestra based in a German-speaking country. (And you visited our not-particularly-large town?! We do have a very nice music hall, so I hope they enjoyed playing there.) S also heard from the orchestra members that the soloist was playing a borrowed Stradivarius. Can't imagine the insurance premiums on something like that.
(Meanwhile, Stars on Ice won't even visit anywhere in our state this year. I've heard they weren't doing so hot nowadays, but only eight cities on the tour? Jeez. The nearest stop is four hours away from me, so if I decide I really want to see Jason and Satton and Loena perform, I'd probably have to make a weekend trip out of it.)
