A full day
May. 27th, 2017 11:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eve_primeI started off the day by finally attending the second "Musicking" conference, an early music event at our local university. They were having an instrument "petting zoo" but had experts to explain only the strings, not the woodwinds, so I didn't get to learn if the large double-reed instrument was a shawm or what.
Then J. and I went and filled up his trunk with a flat rock to go in the middle of his strawberry bed, two big fuchsias in hanging baskets, and a bunch of annuals. I read Letters to a Young Muslim outside for a while (in the shade), then I went back to the Musicking conference for a lecture about oratorios and a baroque composer named Giovanni Bononcini. This was naturally followed by a performance of a Bononcini oratorio, but was going to be nearly three hours long so I left at the intermission. One of my neighbors was in it!
I got us a pizza and Greek salad, and after we ate that I finished reading Two Princesses of Bamarre, then we watched the Doctor Strange movie. It was sillier than most of the Marvel movies, I thought, and I'm glad I didn't see it in a theater because the special effects would surely make me sick, but I was impressed with Benedict C's American accent.
Then J. and I went and filled up his trunk with a flat rock to go in the middle of his strawberry bed, two big fuchsias in hanging baskets, and a bunch of annuals. I read Letters to a Young Muslim outside for a while (in the shade), then I went back to the Musicking conference for a lecture about oratorios and a baroque composer named Giovanni Bononcini. This was naturally followed by a performance of a Bononcini oratorio, but was going to be nearly three hours long so I left at the intermission. One of my neighbors was in it!
I got us a pizza and Greek salad, and after we ate that I finished reading Two Princesses of Bamarre, then we watched the Doctor Strange movie. It was sillier than most of the Marvel movies, I thought, and I'm glad I didn't see it in a theater because the special effects would surely make me sick, but I was impressed with Benedict C's American accent.