I also watched a few you tube videos about grafting apple trees. Maybe it will work! My vegetable patch is now all turned over; a bit more raking and it will be ready for planting snow peas.
Near the beginning of the pandemic I started working on a web site to look at some of the statistics about it. It’s http://deanlie.shinyapps.io/ReopenAndRisk/ The “Shiny” part is the hosting service; that’s a framework for building interactive statistics programs, and it kept me busy thinking I could still do programming if I worked hard enough at it. Right now the statistics are pretty much obsolete, but I’d like to add a display of how vaccination rates compare between states. The raw numbers for each day are available from the CDC; it’s a question of crunching the numbers and displaying them. I spent a lot of today working on it, and I’ll post the URL again when I have updated the online app to show anything new.
I recorded all the remaining bits of the euphonium part to Leonard Bernstein’s Overture to Candide for SymBa. What we’re doing this year, since we can’t meet together in person, is everyone recording their own part individually in GarageBand (if they have a Mac or Apple device powerful enough to run GarageBand effectively) or Audacity, editing their recording so it synchronizes with a reference track, and sending the recording to the director. The director then puts the individual tracks all together, makes any necessary adjustments to them, and does the mixing. For this spring session we have been working on twenty or so measures per week. I have a lot of editing left to do on this section.