weekend and dancing

We had a nice weekend, fairly quiet, which means not too many activities. I finally heard from Ikea about the cabinets which should be here in flat form in 85 separate boxes on Wednesday. Then we need to get busy with construction in time for installation. Bye-bye garage! At least until early June.

We went to a dance on Saturday night, our only organized activity of the weekend. It was a combined English-contra night, always a lot of fun. For some reason, we had a lot of brand new people (hooray) who didn't know even the simplest moves. Our contra caller, who is sweet and patient, and also blind, couldn't always tell during the walk-throughs how much people didn't know, so we had a tiny bit more confusion than usual. During the actual dancing, though, she can tell how we're doing by how unified our feet shuffling is. We got through it, and the newbies stuck with us far longer into the evening than they often do, and that was a happy thing.

The musicians were delightful with the contras and barely stumbled through the English. Alas, last weekend, we were treated to music played by the guy who actually wrote the book of tunes that all English players use -- the Rise Up Singing of English dance. So it was an extreme let-down to hear musicians struggle to play the same music that was so beautifully played the weekend before. Alas.

Maybe next year our organizers will consider scheduling English-contra night a month before dance camp as a kind of advertisement for camp. The evening really was fun overall, and we ended up leaving much later than we usually do.

Yesterday, we caught up on some house work. We spent some lovely time in the yard, with full sun and not too much heat, finishing up the weeding job started by our spring-cleanup landscapers. We now have mulch, some trees in full flower, lilacs that are about to hit peak, and a mowed lawn. The house always looks stunning at this time of year.