Here’s the story of the night:
Stony Point vs. McNeil HS football game. The game is going fairly well, both teams are playing hard and the score is fairly even. Halftime comes and the McNeil band does their halftime show and goes a bit over their time (but what band doesn’t the first time they put their whole show plus drill team dance on the field?) but not by much. Our band goes on the field to do the show, they get through the drill team song, the opener and the ballad and I notice we’re running low on time (but there is still almost 2 minutes on the clock) and the team is already waiting to run through their tunnel thing. We get about 1/4 of the way through the closer and there’s 1:09 on the clock and the football team decides to run onto the field!!! The band is STILL MARCHING THEIR SHOW!!!! I’m in the pressbox, appauled and parents and families are looking back seeing what we’re going to do. The drum majors stop the band and once all the team has passed by on the edge of the field (between the pit and the band), they signal the band to come off the field. Although very confused, they do.
All this time, where are the coaches you ask? Right next to the team. They make NO attempt to stop their kids and seem to have no regard for the safety of kids with no pads and helmets potentially getting hit by a football player running at full speed. Although many parents encouraged us to pack up an go home at that moment, we stay the rest of the game and perform the closer at the end of the game. At no point (even after we all returned to the school) did any coach offer an explaination nor apology. There were at least 4 administrators at the game - not one came over to see if our kids, no, THEIR KIDS were okay. Can you believe that???
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We had an unexpected early release today. About 11:30, the power went out in bits of the school. It was really weird because for example, the lights in the music library cut out but the power in the plugs were still going strong. Same thing in the band hall - one switch of lights were going but the other weren’t. The office made an announcement about intermittent power outtage through the school and they were working on it. About 30 minutes later, all the power went out. We had some band moms working in the uniform room (the new uniforms are in - more on that in another blog) and I told them if the power isn’t back on by 12:30, they were going to call school for the day. 12:40 and an announcement comes on saying they were arranging for transportation and they would let us know when to release school for the day! They finally released everyone at 1:30 only for all the lights to come back on again…go figure! At least my band got to rehearse and sightread some new music. They need every sightreading rehearsal they can get and they enjoy it (YAY!). So, I’m home now, getting ready for the girls to come over for Grey’s Anatomy (we’ll miss you, Mon!). What an interesting day!
Well, I didn’t get to making that crock pot chicken until tonight but it’s cooking up for tomorrow’s lunch & future meals. I can’t wait to taste it! So, in classic Krez style, here’s what I did:
First, I put a whole chicken in my crock pot. I used a roasting chicken instead of a frying chicken.
Then, I added the seasoning. I’m not sure how much of each because I season by eye but here are the spices/herbs I used - Ana’s Herbs (for whatever reason, this website only seems to work on MS IE…BOO!!), celery salt, cayanne pepper, basil, and a bay leaf.
I cubed 2 baking potatoes and 1 onion and added them in. I also added about 4 cups of water.
Can’t forget the garlic! 1 clove, minced.
Cook all that on high heat for a few hours. Once this has all cooked down a bit, I’m going to add in carrots, mushrooms and frozen okra and let it cook on low overnight.
So, it should be ready for me to pack myself a yummy lunch tomorrow. If I leave it on warm all day tomorrow, it should definitely fall off the bone by dinner time. Hopefully, the final meal will picture well - if so, I’ll send a copy to composer and food pic blogger John Mackey. I can’t wait to taste it!!
Lovin’ the weather. It won’t get above 75 degrees today, I don’t think! THANK GOODNESS FOR YESTERDAY’S RAIN!!!
I chatted with Evan Morgan for a long time today. It was GREAT to chat realtime with him. He’s overseas, outside Kabul, Afghanistan, stationed with the US Army (despite his being Air Force) training the Afghan National Army do to the things he does in his job with the USAF. He says it’s been pretty peaceful there, except one recent incident…but no one was killed. If you know Evan, I’m sure he’d appreciate any and all communication he can get during the “down time” he gets. He’s 9 1/2 hours ahead of us time wise and he gets a bit of down time each evening. Let me know and I’ll be more than happy to send you his email address.
Other than that, I’m just cleaning around the house and doing laundry today. My dad’s coming over to help install a water filtration system in my kitchen. I love doing projects like that with my dad. 
Regular Sunday dinner club tonight. *YUMMY*
The sunset tonight is beautiful! I thought I’d share it with you. From my front yard:
