Yesterday we met with the Housing people in Pittsfield to sign paperwork, one set of which was notarized.
Before that we visited the ReStore outlet, which is huge and impressive. Found a little medicine cabinet for over the toilet which Ron and I installed today.
We stopped to look at plants at Home Depot. I bought a nice phlox and planted it today.
Worked on the larger raised garden bed which is on the deck. Today I added some soil and the rest of the stinking compost that I put in a bucket last year. Letting it air before adding more soil.
Started transferring from the little bookcase to the “new” medicine cabinet, ended up dusting areas I haven’t been able to reach in the bathroom. Unbelievable amount of dust – not dirt, dust.
Roofer came over to check things out this morning and pointed out some things to be fixed unrelated to the deteriorating shingles, like bad flashing and another architectural problem that is probably causing leaks when it rains.
Heard from Matt, he will add us to his schedule.
Bought tickets to a jazz event at the Clark next month.
Got to Tanglewood very early, at 4, strolled around for a bit. They are not officially open, just for the Lenox Jazz Stroll so most of the campus and all of the venues except for the Linde Center were closed.
The tickets weren’t available until 6, the hall didn’t open until 6:30 and there was plenty of parking next to the venue so we didn’t need to get there so early. Considering that none of this information had been provided by the organizers, good to know for the future.
We ended up going back to Lenox center for snacks and a bottle of wine.
The concert was terrific: Bernstein & Bop: A Saxophone Colossus featuring Ted Rosenthal’s All-Star Sextet with a special opening set by Wanda Houston & The Convergence Trio.
I could have done without the lugubrious piano solo of “There’s a Place for Us” but the rendition of the otherwise cloying “I Feel Pretty” was a masterpiece, especially as performed by the formidable, youngish (32) alto saxophonist Erena Terakubo.