I skipped blogging yesterday. Wednesday was the third frenetic day in a row for me so I took yesterday off as much as possible. I almost have all the information I need for Mom’s medicaid app. Her annuity provider (Mass Mutual) is mailing me the doc I need for it. When that arrives I will take what I have back to Laurie at Resthaven and work on the app. After that all we have to do is spend down Mom’s remaining assets to qualify for Medicaid.

Mom has seemed more comfortable the last few times Eileen and I visited her. She is due for a competence eval today. I’d be surprised if they deemed her mentally competent at this stage. I’m pretty sure she is still in there, but she communicates in very brief sentences and mostly wants to sleep.

Eileen was working at Mom’s room yesterday when she noticed that a truck from Bibles for Mexico was sitting outside the building. She ran out and talked to them. They came in and took away a lot of stuff. As Eileen says, “a good chunk of” of what we needed to get out. This was very helpful and satisfying.

I had a good trio rehearsal yesterday. Again with the Bach B minor violin sonata. These are essentially trios between the violin, the cello/harpsichord left hand (same line), and the harpsichord right hand. The introduction to this edition points out that Bach didn’t write that much in trio texture. I hadn’t thought of that, but I guess it’s true. The violin sonatas, three of the flute sonatas, the organ trios, three of the gamba sonatas. Interestingly, I have played most if not all of these. I am drawn to three part texture.

In the afternoon, I played and thought about Rameau. I read through music that I have known for decades and some of a suite I had not played before. The suite turned out to be pretty amazing. I found this recording of it. This player plays very well and captures the spirit of it.

I couldn’t remember if I studied any Rameau with Ray Ferguson who taught me harpsichord as well as organ.

Today Eileen and I are quite the social butterflies. We are meeting Thom and Judy Gowens for lunch. Judy was my daughter Sarah’s first grade teacher. Thom is an organist. We haven’t seen them for years. They are driving up from Chicago today on their way to Muskegon for a gig for Thom. It will be interesting to catch up with them.

Then for dinner, we are meeting my friend Rhonda and her husband for a pre concert meal together. The concert we are attending is a a Great Performance Series concert by Dr. Lonnie Johnson. I hope he does some tunes like this one: