Project 52

[mrs_sweetpeach]

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I'm really not sure how to describe this past week. We utterly failed at working on the yard, not that the change in seasons is helping any. It gets dark soon after we get home from work, or *is* dark if we had any errands to run on the way. The one evening I was pretty sure we could get out there and do something I decided, instead, to go to the library and get a new library card. Youtube introduced me to a new person, Jocko Willink, who wrote a handful of children's books (and some addressed at adults but I am not as interested in those) and I saw two of them were available online through Overdrive/Libby for card holders. I have now read the first two books and hope to someday find the rest of the series somewhere I can borrow them. Well anyway, once I had new card I was really hungry so we detoured and picked up carryout from Matt & Mo's (the Italian Beef sandwich place I have fallen in love with). Stupidly, we ordered a sausage sandwich not the Italian Beef. It was good anyway. And dark by the time we got home.

I called my mom after reading one of Willink's books as I was oddly emotional. Turns out my mom was in a worse state than I was as one of my nephews is in trouble with the law and is facing the possibility of decades in prison. From what I gather (I've been unable to locate any sources detailing his crimes or arrest) he committed a bunch of B&Es after either drugs or money. And is a meth addict. And his dad is losing his mind trying to arrange bail and hire a good lawyer. I doubt my brother can afford a lawyer and with meth involved I'm not sure it wise to spend his savings this way. I'm 61, I believe my brother is only one year younger and I very much doubt he has anything at all saved for when he is no longer able to work.

In addition to being stressed out about one of her sons and grandsons, mom had just gone through a day of neurological testing and learned she's banned from driving anywhere or cooking on her stove. She was under the belief the doctor told her that she's slowly losing her marbles but my sister tells me that what was actually said is that she has hardening of the arteries and that's what is interfering with her thinking. The cooking ban is temporary as is the driving ban, plus the driving thing has more to do with her vision than anything else. One of her strokes gave her a blind spot and the laser treatment she received to treat that has distorted her vision. The distortion may clear up if she gives it some time.

I had some medical appointments of my own this week. I saw my sleep doctor who gave me an all clear and said I don't need to return for a year. My trip to dentist turned out not to be a routine as I'd hoped as I have an infection in my jaw and need both a root canal and an implant.

Last Saturday jebra and I went down to the Redford for a Vincent Price double-feature. I was apprehensive about going because (a) I'm a big chicken and scary movies scare me and (b) I'm not really comfortable around crowds of people with COVID still around. The theater limited attendance to 600 people (the venue is huge so it did not feel crowded and we stayed masked. Plus there was only one other patron seated anywhere near us. Being a double-feature we didn't get home until Midnight which I was sorry about come Sunday as I was very tired when it was time to get up. I did though, and joined the Minneapolis Stitch & Bitch folks on Zoom for an hour before I had to jump off and go to the FCB's Halloween concert. The concert went well but the attendance was low and jebra forgot to turn on his recorder. I was disappointed as I wanted to hear two of the pieces again. I can't even tell you what the names were as if there was a printed program I never saw it. I think one had something to with a Haunted Carousel and the other with Frankenstein meeting someone. Both interesting pieces in any event. The Children's Costume Parade was the tiniest I've ever witnessed in all the years I've been going to FCB concerts, maybe a dozen kids. Attendance was low for this event, which was sad because this was the first indoor concert the band has had in the past seventeen months. I suspect many folks are as leery of indoor events as I am plus it was cold and rainy.

In crafting news, I finished one hat and one cat bed this week.

In audio book news, we finished another Terry Pratchett (The Wee Free Men) and began the third Murderbot book this morning. I am still madly in love with the Murderbot and am already invested in the story. I even miss ART although my feelings toward him are not nearly as strong.

And lastly I must give a great big Thank you to siberian_skys for the Halloween Card. It made my day and is here on my desk so I can look at whenever the urge strikes.

Scrapbook papers & elements from the kit Bohemian Breeze
For more information about the designers and their work, see
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Comments

[jennlk]

The two pieces you asked about are Haunted Carousel and Mary Shelley Meets Frankenstein (A Promethean Tango). Both by Erika Svanoe

There is a video of the concert out there - I know, because J was watching it on Monday as I was heading out to rehearsal.

(I was not at the concert. You may have noticed. Because FPS was delayed in deciding when/where we could play, I had a prior commitment with Livingston County Community Band.)

[mrs_sweetpeach]

Oooh! Thanks for the links!

And yes, I *did* notice you weren't there and figured it had something to with the Livingston Band. I was hoping you weren't playing outdoors as it was cold & rainy in Farmington.

[jennlk]

No, we were inside. Howell High School has a decent auditorium. (I was going to pass on this concert session for LCCB because the Halloween concerts are usually at the same time, but FPS hadn't scheduled the FCB concert by the time that the section leader at LCCB asked if I could play tenor sax....)

As I mentioned in my post on the weekend, a lot of the FCB's usual audience is folk from either senior citizen housing or adult foster care, and I expect that most of them are still staying home, and certainly not running their shuttles to outside events. Ginny mentioned that the concert hadn't been advertised locally much if at all, so it was going to be mostly friends & family in the audience.

[siberian_skys]

I know how you feel about the not getting the yard worked on this week only in my case it's the house. I seem to take two steps forward another two steps back.

And you are very welcome for the Halloween card. I'm glad you liked it.

I feel bad for your mother and your brother. There just isn't much you can do with addicts. If he's been committing B&E to that extent he must have been addicted to meth or something else for a long time. I was half expecting my dad to end up in a vehicular homicide situation while I was growing up. He was an alcoholic. My senior year he finally got pulled over and lost his license for 6 months and that didn't stop him. He didn't stop drinking until his later years and only because he started feeling really bad and the alcohol just made him feel worse.

[one-raido.livejournal.com]

You've been busy. Ugh on the dental stuff.

[wpadmirer.livejournal.com]

I am so sorry to hear about your dental woes! That's not any fun at all. I hope the infection can be cleared up and that the following work isn't too horrible.

Take care of yourself!