First thing this morning I hooked up a bench supply to the gateway i built yesterday and set it up running on the table in my office. I didn't have time to test it since I went to my Clarinet lesson at 9. In the lesson we covered holding a note for a while without wavering and starting the note with a fast attack. He also suggested trying the scales and fingering in the back of the book. He also detected me missing the metronome count when I cross the break when taking a breath. I need to do some breathing exercises to fill my chest with air. Regarding starting a note, he detected me not starting a note abruptly but instead ramped up to full volume or full steady tone.
After an excellent lesson I drove over to Home Depot at Cary Crossroads and found the Honda tiller was not there even though the website said they had 10 in stock. I finally found a helpful employee who told me the tiller was recalled and on a pallet to go back because of the recall. He suggested a Ryobi string trimmer with a tiller attachment. A few interesting things about the Ryobi. It is a 4 cycle engine head but there also is a head available that is battery powered. This gives the best of both worlds.
I went to Northern Tool and found the honda tiller but it took almost an hour to get it because i had to wait for a fork lift operator who also had to move a truck to get to the tiller. I eventually got home at 11 with the new tiller. Fortunately there was no assembly, just fold the handle straight and put oil in the engine. The engine surprisingly holds only 2.7 ounces of oil which Honda supplied in the box. I like the tiller very much. It's easy on my back. I tilled the spot for the zinnias and then tilled in some potting soil across the top few inches which we also sprinkled with fast acting lime.
Libbie then planted the Zinnia seeds. We now need to addd the Marigolds. After lunch we listened to Eugene onegin wich we skipped todayy at the HD performance because we wanted to get stuff done today. I was so tired I fell asleep during part of the opera. It was a good afternoon. We had the other half of the baby backs from our anniversary along with salad, asparagus and Trader Joes Syrah. After we finished our last glass of wine on the back porch we went over to Brusters and had ice cream cones. It's expensive but they have good ice cream, freshly home made on fresh baked waffle cones.