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It's another nice day, the fourth consecutive with no rain, so plants in pots will need tending to. I don't want a repeat of Friday's disaster with the curly willow.
The mother plant is still abundantly supplied with new shoots, so yesterday I chose a nice unbranched willow wand, cut it, and brought it indoors to root somewhere that's less likely to breed mosquitoes. It should be ready for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
halfmoon_mollie just in time for her to have to plant it and nurse it through the dog days of August. Some friend I am!
Since I can't listen to the same Tommy Emmanuel album, even a double album, all the time without getting serious ear fatigue, I'm working on tuning my Pandora "artistic wizardry" station so that there are no vocals and no intrusive other instruments (nose flutes, etc.). I'll tolerate some well-behaved bass or percussion as long as it's not the main event. The station is getting pretty well-tuned; I only reject about one track out of ten now.
Callus maintenance sessions are now up to 45 minutes a day. Since I'm shifting from holding the guitar on my left knee to holding it on my right like the rest of the non-classical world, and since I'm also switching to using a thumb pick, everything is unfamiliar and I sound like crap, I think. Roy says he can see improvements but I think he's just being loyal and supportive and all that. I think I mentioned reading that water is not the friend of the callus builder, so I'll be rummaging for my rubber gloves. Rubbing alcohol, on the other hand, is my friend. We'll see...
I got my mailing for the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society's member's day with the annual beg for plant donations. The cupboard is awfully bare this year, but in the coming years it may be a home for extra hybrid hippeastrums, now that I have some interesting ones to share.
The mother plant is still abundantly supplied with new shoots, so yesterday I chose a nice unbranched willow wand, cut it, and brought it indoors to root somewhere that's less likely to breed mosquitoes. It should be ready for
halfmoon_mollie just in time for her to have to plant it and nurse it through the dog days of August. Some friend I am!Since I can't listen to the same Tommy Emmanuel album, even a double album, all the time without getting serious ear fatigue, I'm working on tuning my Pandora "artistic wizardry" station so that there are no vocals and no intrusive other instruments (nose flutes, etc.). I'll tolerate some well-behaved bass or percussion as long as it's not the main event. The station is getting pretty well-tuned; I only reject about one track out of ten now.
Callus maintenance sessions are now up to 45 minutes a day. Since I'm shifting from holding the guitar on my left knee to holding it on my right like the rest of the non-classical world, and since I'm also switching to using a thumb pick, everything is unfamiliar and I sound like crap, I think. Roy says he can see improvements but I think he's just being loyal and supportive and all that. I think I mentioned reading that water is not the friend of the callus builder, so I'll be rummaging for my rubber gloves. Rubbing alcohol, on the other hand, is my friend. We'll see...
I got my mailing for the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society's member's day with the annual beg for plant donations. The cupboard is awfully bare this year, but in the coming years it may be a home for extra hybrid hippeastrums, now that I have some interesting ones to share.
