Cut-and-paste music

 

Monday

I got up around 7:30. I opened the blinds, took supplements, exercised and practiced. Then I made egg salad with tomatoes and pepitas. I read e-mail, then looked at crafts. I went cleaning for 2 hours.

I came home, ate fiber gel, then sat outside and read. I made and ate breakfast. I heated half a gallon of milk on the stove. I had a thermometer on the automatic mixing unit, but it wasn't registering hot enough and the milk boiled over. I added vinegar and let it curdle. I put the other half gallon in the dehydrator. Then I noticed that some cherry tomatoes were turning red.

Jamie came over with the key to 204. I pulled up the part for the bells on the old computer. It was a scanned copy of notes handwritten in pencil. So I opened it in MSPaint and copypasted parts from other hymns over it: notes, measure bars, key signature, clef, staff lines, note names, rests, half notes, etc. It looked pieced, but better than the pencil version. Then I called up the second song and pieced it too. But I ran out of time. Chris had just come home from work. I loaded them on a thumbdrive and asked him to take them to the library to print out.

I grabbed my music and headed to the chapel. I unlocked it and went in to turn on the lights. Atlas came with me. He helped me grab a table from the fellowship hall and the egg crate pad. His father helped carry the boxes of bells. We set up the table and easels.

Rod came and helped us practice songs for Sunday and songs for Thanksgiving. Michelle couldn't stop smiling watching him work with the bells and percussion: an answer to prayer. Chris dropped off the music for the bells.  Since Keli was gone, we had no piano player. Casey came by with a jar of starter (for bread). He left it on my trombone case.

It was after 8 when we quit. The players left, but Rod, Robert and I stayed to talk a bit, then I turned off the lights and locked up.

I went home and ate supper. I read some e-mail and worked on my blog. I took milk-turned-to-cheese out of the dehydrator and separated some of the whey. I left it sit to separate more.

After I finished my blog post, I made tea. We watched one episode of Criminal Minds. Then I bottled the whey. Chris went to bed but I stayed up later to read.