We had a much nicer weather day – not too
hot; but no rain and more sunshine than clouds.
Tai Chi was by the river; breakfast in the
sunroom included some entertainment when the first guys arrived early to get
started on the patio and driveway.
It’s a good thing that Mom and I weren’t
walking around in our nighties! ;^)
The nice weather helped to make our school
day more fun; and that included some outdoor time at lunch and for one of our
classes. We kicked the fun up a few
notches with band practice; that got even more entertaining as we moved on to
our marching band practice; and some of our friends and fellow band members are
discovering that marching and playing music at the same time is not so simple
that you don’t need to practice. We are
coming along, and will be ready for the Memorial Day parade; but I’m also glad
that we’ll only have two corners to turn for that parade – and will have more
time to work on that for the Fourth of July parade.
It’s not that late, but I’ve needed to use
a time phase to play catch-up tonight; so I’m going to skip over the band
details and move this along.
That practice went well-enough despite the
glitches that were mostly just funny and entertaining. We’re starting to look and sound like a
marching band; and I think that we’re going to impress our families, friends,
and neighbors four weeks from now.
Impressing people won’t be our goal for our Memorial Day weekend music
with the teen praise team; but the messages usually go over better if the
congregation isn’t covering their ears; so we had a long practice at the church
too once we were finished with the marching band practice. I was getting tired by then, but still needed
to do my homework with Michael before even getting around to my family business
and language studies work.
We did that at in the sunroom at my house
so that we could talk with Mom, Ethan, and Ehlana – and they told us all about
the work that had been done in the yard and on the driveway – though we could
see the progress when we got home too. The
patio base is ready to go; and the interlocking bricks will start going in
tomorrow. The driveway is going to be
concrete slabs; and the wooden forms are finished; so the first truckloads of
cement will be delivered tomorrow. There’s
still more prep work to be done for the interlocking brick sidewalk that will
line the back wall and driveway side of the sunroom; but that’s on the schedule
for tomorrow; and there are different crews working on the concrete and
bricklaying anyway. The job is on-target
to be done by the end of the week; and there will likely be a family barbeque
on Friday night if it is done by then.
Michael and I got our homework finished by
eleven o’clock; we took care of getting Ethan and Ehlana tucked in for the
night; and then he went home while I came up to my room to get to work. I’ve already mentioned that I used a time
phase to do that; and now I’m totally baked.
There isn’t anything exciting to write about from the bedtime work
session. I will remind you that our
baseball practices start tomorrow night; and that’s going to make for a third
busy day in a row for me – especially when I’ll still be doing another
saxophone lesson with Jessica after school and will need to get my homework
finished after that. Add in the loss of
my one chance to do my ‘real’ work and studying early; and it’s going to be
tough not to wear out before the weekend.
Getting some sleep right now is an option,
though, and one that I’m ready to take; so, until next time...
...May the Magi Force be with you!
