My Weekend & Sister Visit

My Weekend: That's the title of a paragraph Mrs. Filkins my third-grade teacher had us write each and every Monday morning of that year. And, we had to read it out loud in class. Hmmm.

Yes, I'm not as disciplined as Mrs. Filkins would have had it as I didn't get to this on Monday but maybe she started something anyway.

My Weekend:

Again, a family trip into the city for a Philadelphia Youth Orchestra's  2017 Showcase of all six of the young people's orchestras playing in Verizon Hall. Altogether, an amazing assemblage of 400 young people drawn from this region making music. And it's good music. Aidan's PYAO (Philadelphia Young Artists Orchestra) played Dvorak's Symphony No. 8 in G major, Op.88--an excellent, beautiful rendition of this piece.

The beginning of the week...

Weather Report: Filthy Piles of Snow. A little one-on-one, anybody?

The downpours this week have largely rid the area of these piles.

Lots of neighbor dog-walking going on.

Our mailman enjoying easier deliveries.

Oops, I launched this ahead of completion for this posting.

I stopped here to stop myself from further procrastination to wield the unwieldy. Vacuuming. Well, I did it! Now I'm back.  To continue...

It is good there are happily anticipated visits to spur the use of a vacuum which you might now have guessed is my household maintenance nemesis. The noise drowns out the music and challenges my patience beyond normalcy. 

The occasion coming up is a visit very soon by my sister Sandy whom I've not seen in a long time. It will be great to share some of our days here in PA, get some touring done, and swap our grandmother and great-grandmother stories.

I'll be watching for her arrival on her pony Tahoe. (Did I get the name right, Sandy?)

Breakthrough! My earworm is singing "younger than springtime am I".