Wednesday morning random

I didn't work in the garden yesterday afternoon; I had piano lesson and also got my weekly allergy shot and figured it probably wasn't advisable to be digging around in leaf-mold after getting an allergy shot.

Instead, I finished sewing up the last of the four-patch blocks for the current quilt top, and then cut the setting squares, and figured out a layout that should work. I also sewed the first couple of rows. It's a set-on-point quilt, so it takes more attention (the rows are done diagonally instead of straight across). I think I'm going to sew a row together and then immediately attach it to the quilt. I may have a picture of the quilt in progress in another day or so.

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Speaking of piano: Bartok frustrates me. One of the pieces I'm working on now is "Evening in the Country." (From "Ten Easy Pieces." Oh, easy for Leonardo!)

It has some atypical rhythms in it - at one point there's eighth note, dotted quarter, dotted quarter eighth note, and then that repeats in the next few bars, and I just can't get it. At one point my teacher told me essentially to "stop counting and just feel it," but I can't, quite. (And I'm not going to "cheat" by looking it up on Youtube or somewhere).

Also, it has places where you're playing a four-note chord in the left hand - first time I've had to do that, and also you have to move pretty fast between two hand positions.

Oh well. I read somewhere that "learning is persistence through failure."

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Another silly site: Cats for Gold is back! I know there were a number of people who were sad when it went away, but now it's back. Got gold? Turn it into ccccccaaaaaaattttttsssss!