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catsittingstillYeah, I haven't posted in ages. I'm hoping to get back into the habit. I'm going to ease back in by not telling you all the stuff since last time because that would take a long time and makes the kind of barrier that keeps me putting things off.
So today I joined the Friends of the Library, and also helped mind the booth that the Friends have at Old Time Saturday, which is a regular thing in my small town, the first Saturday of October.
Now October is usually lovely weather--comfortable temperatures, dry, with that wonderful blue blue sky we only get when the summer haze is gone. The trees are turning, the mosquitoes have died, if you're only going to come to Tennessee one month in your life, make it October.
Unfortunately we caught the backwash of Hurricane Joaquin (I think that's how it's spelled) and so it has been raining for two days solid. I wore jeans, hiking boots, my leather jacket, my winter hat with the brim and the earflaps that tuck inside and took the extra large umbrella to go to mind the booth.
I needed them all. A scarf and wool socks wouldn't have gone amiss either and really the hiking boots need new soles. If anybody had been selling hot chocolate instead of popcorn and snow cones, they'd have made a killing, except that the attendance was way down this year--it wouldn't surprise me if half the people present were minding a booth or associated with someone who was. Some of the booth-minders didn't even come.
In other news I have decided to try to learn tremolo. I hate it--I've only ever heard one mandolinist who could do it without sounding obnoxious and they were a professional who played classical music--but it appears to be key to developing other techniques that I do want to be able to do. So I found a youtube video by someone called "hardrockgrrl" who appears to know what she's doing and have a systematic approach I think I can copy. It looks like it will take a couple of months of daily practice to get out of the obnoxious zone but I think I can do that.
And in other other news I'll be playing bodhran at OVFF, which wouldn't be any biggie but I want to be able to hit a particular tempo and then change it to another particular tempo and do that several times, so I have a fair amount of bodhran practicing before me also.
So that's what is up with me.
So today I joined the Friends of the Library, and also helped mind the booth that the Friends have at Old Time Saturday, which is a regular thing in my small town, the first Saturday of October.
Now October is usually lovely weather--comfortable temperatures, dry, with that wonderful blue blue sky we only get when the summer haze is gone. The trees are turning, the mosquitoes have died, if you're only going to come to Tennessee one month in your life, make it October.
Unfortunately we caught the backwash of Hurricane Joaquin (I think that's how it's spelled) and so it has been raining for two days solid. I wore jeans, hiking boots, my leather jacket, my winter hat with the brim and the earflaps that tuck inside and took the extra large umbrella to go to mind the booth.
I needed them all. A scarf and wool socks wouldn't have gone amiss either and really the hiking boots need new soles. If anybody had been selling hot chocolate instead of popcorn and snow cones, they'd have made a killing, except that the attendance was way down this year--it wouldn't surprise me if half the people present were minding a booth or associated with someone who was. Some of the booth-minders didn't even come.
In other news I have decided to try to learn tremolo. I hate it--I've only ever heard one mandolinist who could do it without sounding obnoxious and they were a professional who played classical music--but it appears to be key to developing other techniques that I do want to be able to do. So I found a youtube video by someone called "hardrockgrrl" who appears to know what she's doing and have a systematic approach I think I can copy. It looks like it will take a couple of months of daily practice to get out of the obnoxious zone but I think I can do that.
And in other other news I'll be playing bodhran at OVFF, which wouldn't be any biggie but I want to be able to hit a particular tempo and then change it to another particular tempo and do that several times, so I have a fair amount of bodhran practicing before me also.
So that's what is up with me.
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