spring just sprang
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dragonlady7So I gotta put in a plug for the farm Instagram again-- not only is there a great video reposted of my darling sister getting interviewed about why she farms with the CSA model, but there is also the first delivery of broiler chicks, AND the first full farrowing, IDK what the story is with Red who had piglets and then nobody talked about piglets, but Red's daughter Stout farrowed, a whole pile of piglets, and there's a picture over there. So.
I was going to go to the farm this week, but there's a concert tonight that Dude bought tickets to for Valentine's day-- Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn, who are a married couple, each of whom is a world-renowned expert in one of two distinct styles of banjo playing. Fleck performs largely in the Bluegrass or "Scruggs" style, with metal finger picks and an upward-curling motion of the fingers opposed by the thumb, on the plucking hand-- he has performed many genres on this instrument, not just bluegrass (he's well-known for a lot of jazz, apparently), but always in that technique. Meanwhile, Washburn is an "old-style" or "clawhammer" player, which means she uses no picks and instead utilizes an inward-pinching motion known as "frailing" with her plucking hand. She has mostly done folk and experimental music, and has a lovely, plain but sure singing voice.
I have no idea what the concert will be like or what to wear, but apparently our banjo teacher and all the other banjo students will be there. I had meant to get to at least one of the jams the teacher leads so that we'd at least have met the other students prior to this, but there were blizzards twice and the last time I was sick as a dog, so. That hasn't happened!
Anyhow. Concert tonight, then I thought, well, I might as well stay in town for my banjo lesson tomorrow, and then I'll go on Friday out to the farm. And then it turns out there's a gallery opening kind of event at work, and it's mostly lame, it's just to get customers to realize we have an upstairs, but they're hanging up artwork by us the employees, so I submitted two of my Kyrgyzstan photos and I want to see everyone at the opening. Maybe I'll actually make it back in time for that... I'm not sure.
But.
Then I can be back in town for my banjo lesson the following night-- although i won't have been able to practice, at all. :/ I guess I really do need to buy myself a banjo. The thing is, they're like $500, for a decent-but-cheap one. BUT, if I had my own, I could play it in the yurt, and probably would, and then maybe I could actually learn some songs and possibly jam with my BIL, who would be delighted-- he plays guitar and clearly has usually had more music in his life than he currently does. (He grew up with his mother playing the church organ a lot of places, so he's had a lot of music schooling his whole life, and at the moment the only person who jams with him is Farmkid who'll strum the strings while he frets, and make up songs. It's very cute.)
(Maybe I should shop around and find a used one instead, but I don't know how to tell if one's any good.)
Lots to do and no time to do it in, as usual-- did I do any prep work in my own yard for the gardening I need to do this year? Nope! HA HA HA HA. Oh well.
Eight weeks until first chicken slaughter, and I gotta get my yurt woodstove out of the evisceration room, where it's been being stored since January, which means I gotta set that yurt up-- I have to come back for the week of April 24th, though, so maybe that's when I'll aim to get the thing set up...
I was going to go to the farm this week, but there's a concert tonight that Dude bought tickets to for Valentine's day-- Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn, who are a married couple, each of whom is a world-renowned expert in one of two distinct styles of banjo playing. Fleck performs largely in the Bluegrass or "Scruggs" style, with metal finger picks and an upward-curling motion of the fingers opposed by the thumb, on the plucking hand-- he has performed many genres on this instrument, not just bluegrass (he's well-known for a lot of jazz, apparently), but always in that technique. Meanwhile, Washburn is an "old-style" or "clawhammer" player, which means she uses no picks and instead utilizes an inward-pinching motion known as "frailing" with her plucking hand. She has mostly done folk and experimental music, and has a lovely, plain but sure singing voice.
I have no idea what the concert will be like or what to wear, but apparently our banjo teacher and all the other banjo students will be there. I had meant to get to at least one of the jams the teacher leads so that we'd at least have met the other students prior to this, but there were blizzards twice and the last time I was sick as a dog, so. That hasn't happened!
Anyhow. Concert tonight, then I thought, well, I might as well stay in town for my banjo lesson tomorrow, and then I'll go on Friday out to the farm. And then it turns out there's a gallery opening kind of event at work, and it's mostly lame, it's just to get customers to realize we have an upstairs, but they're hanging up artwork by us the employees, so I submitted two of my Kyrgyzstan photos and I want to see everyone at the opening. Maybe I'll actually make it back in time for that... I'm not sure.
But.
Then I can be back in town for my banjo lesson the following night-- although i won't have been able to practice, at all. :/ I guess I really do need to buy myself a banjo. The thing is, they're like $500, for a decent-but-cheap one. BUT, if I had my own, I could play it in the yurt, and probably would, and then maybe I could actually learn some songs and possibly jam with my BIL, who would be delighted-- he plays guitar and clearly has usually had more music in his life than he currently does. (He grew up with his mother playing the church organ a lot of places, so he's had a lot of music schooling his whole life, and at the moment the only person who jams with him is Farmkid who'll strum the strings while he frets, and make up songs. It's very cute.)
(Maybe I should shop around and find a used one instead, but I don't know how to tell if one's any good.)
Lots to do and no time to do it in, as usual-- did I do any prep work in my own yard for the gardening I need to do this year? Nope! HA HA HA HA. Oh well.
Eight weeks until first chicken slaughter, and I gotta get my yurt woodstove out of the evisceration room, where it's been being stored since January, which means I gotta set that yurt up-- I have to come back for the week of April 24th, though, so maybe that's when I'll aim to get the thing set up...
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Date: 2019-04-03 03:13 pm (UTC)I'm going to try and get my stuff seeded tonight in their containers. I was taunting my mom monty python style with the word spring.
Do you want me to drop your flax seed at the farm this week?
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Date: 2019-04-03 04:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-04-03 04:43 pm (UTC)Oh, sure, I'll take the flax seed. Maybe I'll get a chance to really discuss where it's actually going to go... LOL. I've been trying to schedule a time with Jean to go to the museum and look at their flax equipment, she was planning to do a demonstration apparently, but we literally don't ever have the same days free so it's already complicated. Ack!
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Date: 2019-04-03 04:46 pm (UTC)IDK, it's on her wikipedia page, lol.
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Date: 2019-04-03 06:26 pm (UTC)I'll do my best to get it there! We've got time!
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Date: 2019-04-03 08:27 pm (UTC)(The flax doesn't have to go into the ground until the ground is like, workable, right? so like. not this week. right? probably early may? something like that?) (IDK, I might have to seed it by hand, but I'm going to try to get it in rows anyway.)
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Date: 2019-04-04 01:12 pm (UTC)I'm going to maybe bake some things later today so I might drop some treats off with the seeds tomorrow :)