Or maybe not

I signed up to bring bread to the band dinner. Sunday night I fed the sourdough starter. Monday it was not looking especially lively, though not dead either. Monday night I made up bread dough with the starter and some yeast…
And it didn’t rise.
Tuesday morning I stopped in at Columbus Bakery and bought two loaves [...]

Not with a fff

Monday evening Kenny kept saying Tuesday would be a snow day, and I kept telling him I didn’t think so. Tuesday I got up and found out it was a snow day. We got 8.4 inches, or rather, the airport, where Syracuse’s snowfall is measured, did. Then again, the airport got 5 inches Saturday and [...]

The clarinet report (edited)

Edited the next morning to clarify a few points.
I did it again. Bought a clarinet on eBay. I can’t possibly pretend I need another one — I have three soprano clarinets already, and I’ve only used one of them the past several months. This one I bought pretty much out of curiosity. [...]