Daily Check In

[atwl77]

Minor excitement of the day is discovering a cockroach in the car while sending the kids off to school. Fortunately, we were near a supermarket when I noticed it on the dashboard, so there was a spot to pulled over and we tried to chase it out of the car. Well, that's one way to shake up a very routine morning weekday! 😅

 

[Woodpad]

Halfway in my morning routine. Trimming the cast seams on my homemade pads with a pair of scissors. Sitting in the sun and listening to music, very peaceful.
Just finished a Conn 6M. Time for a coffee break and after that a Conn bari. Conns are nice instruments to work on. I enjoy the well thought lay-out and try not to think of the scrub screws.

 

[Targa]

Downloaded the Merlin birdwatching app.
It identifies all the birds in the dawn chorus by their calls.
Makes ordering breakfast simpler.

 

[Tenor Viol]

Weird start to the day. I was up at 6.30. I was contemplating a shower when there was a knock at the door |(7.45) and a tradesman with a widget in one hand saying: I've come to fit this...

"This" being a water meter which the utility company forgot to install last year. Every two weeks a bot generates an e-mail, "We are sorry for the delay...".

No, they hadn't contacted me to arrange an installation. It took all of two minutes. What I don't get is that I was only the second house to be occupied yet my meter was missing. They've built another 30 houses since and the utility company are regularly on site to install their meters...

Shower was delayed until he'd gone. Then I decided to mow the back lawn and given warmer weather, I watered the tubs.

 

[mizmar]

Shower was delayed..., I watered the tubs.

So is that the first shower and tub water you paid for?
Truly a landmark day?

 

[trimmy]

@Vetinari Once you’ve finished, can you come to do mine 😁

 

[Vetinari]

Just finished. Now I'm finished. Totally knackered.

 

[Targa]

Just finished. Now I'm finished. Totally knackered.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bw1KdIDRwww

 

[Jeanette]

Worked from home today so managed coffee breaks in the garden.

Cut the lawn after work and we had our first BBQ

Love 🌞

Jx

 

[Vetinari]

@Targa , too late, already fenced and gated.

 

[Wonko]

Downloaded the Merlin birdwatching app.
It identifies all the birds in the dawn chorus by their calls.
Makes ordering breakfast simpler.

Nice!
And thanks for the tip. That was just what I needed. Installed it right away and tried it out on this Dutch campsite where we are staying (bird singing everywhere). My wife was very impressed and asked me to install it on her phone as well.
And today we had our first BBQ of the year, very nice!

 

[mizmar]

...birds in the dawn chorus...

Dawn and it's accompanying chorus, here, is now 3AM 😠

 

[skeller047]

I don’t care what the sun thinks, dawn for me is 10 AM … or later. It’s 5 PM now here at chez skeller047, and I’m still in my PJs. I think I’ll take a shower after dinner…

3 AM is a perfectly good time to be getting home.

 

[Woodpad]

I don’t care what the sun thinks

Its just dong a tantrum. Expect a lot of northern light. Just trimmed the upper hand of a Schenkelaars alto. One pad of the Conn bari has a leak, needs some attention.

 

[Dave E]

I'm just doing some ivy taming whenever there's a shady period, and have just cut up my old friend (a wheelbarrow) which has a seriously rusty frame and is heading to recycling. BBQ sounds a good idea; later today mebbe... Sax practice is also competing for time; 3 ska numbers, South African jazzband rehearsal, another video for my course tutor (priority) and 4 or 5 funk numbers needed for my nephews Brownload festival all quite soon...

 

[Pete Thomas]

I'm just fixing up the Forum a bit = found a way to allow sellers to edit the thread details and lock their threads. Yay.

 

[Tenor Viol]

Recovering from the shock of photographing one of the brightest aurorae I've ever seen. It's a toss-up with one from 2001, but I have no photos of that one as it was before I owned a digital camera and I had no film in the camera that night!

 

[Digger2054]

Today I've made some acoustic panels, had the wood left over from a job, so knocked up some frames, filled them with acoustic insulation, and stretched some fabric over them, then fixed them to the wall with the scientific skill of a chimp, who knows what effect it'll have? But it passed the day (Saxophones currently residing in another room until I'm sure they won't fall down 🤣)

 

[Pete Thomas]

then fixed them to the wall with the scientific skill of a chimp, who knows what effect it'll have?

Optimal is 50mm away from the wall.

Home Studio Acoustics: High & Mid Frequency Absorbers

How to make high & mid frequency absorbers for your studio

mediamusicforum.com

 

[Jeanette]

I have washed my car and reproofed the hood.

Sat in the garden in the sun with a cheeky glass of white wine. Steaks on the BBQ for tea me thinks then try and catch the 2nd instalment of the light show 😄

Jx