Yesterday afternoon my phone got a tornado message in our county. I looked outside and there was a blue sky with a few tuffs of clouds here or there with no danger in sight. And we have fields across from our house, so we can see for miles. nothing... I even went out on the deck and listened and watched for a few minutes.
And then the siren uptown went off. Since the air was so still, I figured it was a fire siren. Someone was struggling with flames or something... I went back in to work.
Later that evening, when Meri and I were headed out, my sister called and asked how we had fared with the tornados. Wha?... Apparently one town about an hour and a half away got nailed big time. Then later on FB, some friends posted pics of this one close to our town.
YIKES! Those sirens WEREN'T about a fire after all!
I need to listen and go downstairs next time...
My tornado dreams are going to start up again... I just know it.
Oh! Our county fair is this weekend. And since Meri forgot to get her photos printed for the photography deadline, the Share the Fun entry was the only thing that she's doing for it.
She had signed up with one song, then last week was hit with an inspiration to write another. And she did that one instead.
She got a alternate State Fair ribbon, meaning if one of the three chosen for the state fair can't go, then they'll call her or another duet group.
Meri wasn't TOO put out about not going to the state fair, but would have liked to. She was more upset that the judge didn't write WHY she got the scores that she did. Why did she lose a point here or there? More comments and feedback would be good if you're a judge and reading this... She wants to improve and can't do that if someone just writes "nice song" on the sheet.
Oh well, we headed home shortly afterwards.
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Not a voice judge, but worked as a dance teacher, and had to score for class placement, competition and part auditions. When we were judging a big group performing a number, (class placement/competition team) I didn't have a chance to write many comments on the score sheet, but we were all always available to speak with the student afterwards. In part auditions, where the student performed alone, our director expected us to write comments for deductions...how else will a student benefit.
Yep, that's a tornado.
Beautiful, but deadly.
Thanks for sharing.
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