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tick tock: happy thoughts
Waiting for Mr. Glass-fixin Guy to show up. Tick tock. In the meantime, here’s a short list of happy things: 1. The gardenia brought to me by my daughter Ana. Sweet scent fills the room. It was a birthday gift that truly has kept on giving. 2. Bought seeds for the garden yesterday. Mostly American Seed Co., not the world’s greatest seeds, but they do the job. I grow them organically. We eat them for months. I like my garden. Seeds = spring. 3. Ophelia, aka Fifi. What’s not to love? She rules my heart. 4. Hair salon appointment today.…
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puttering, or if you’re British, pottering
Black coffee and rain. Sleepy cat, laundry piles, Mr. Husband packing to go away for a business trip (which includes a 24-hour marathon relay through the Arizona desert, and a visit to spring training); the girls are in various states of sleepiness as they arise and go about their day. Raindrops against the window behind me. Yesterday was sunny-ish, and almost warm, and since it was forecast to rain today, I took advantage of the weather (I know — there I go, taking advantage again. I’m such a user.) and puttered a bit. Puttering turned into a little bit of huffing and grunting when I moved a couple of pots I probably…
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happy bird-day to me
Yep. It’s that day. Two score and seven years ago today, my poor mother was just about done having me, and I got on with my own life. Here I am still, having my own life! Today I celebrated with Starbux in bed (a venti house blend with room for cream), then went over to dear friend Mary Lee’s house where she gave me Irish breakfast tea and artisanal Irish soda bread, and we caught up after a couple of months of missing our usual Thursday tea. Mr. Husband kindly got my car’s oil changed and picked up The Boy from his other house while I had tea with the fabu…
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p.s. pillows
I finished the pillows Monday (I think it was Monday), and here they are. They are reversible, or at least have a front and a back. They are 3-D! I kind of like the back of the right-hand pillow better than the pieced front. The left-hand pillow is fine either way (doesn’t show the back because it’s a plain muslin/floral, very “white” in the photos). Anyhoo. Happy days. Pillows, side A. Side B. Well, on the red chair. Fifi and I are enjoying spring sunshine. Me like.
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front porch progress
Remember how we used to have a pretty blue door? The same shade as the edge of the planter box and the tile? Well, we used to but the property management came and painted all our doors white again. They said the Navy said that colored doors are not historically accurate or appropriate for these houses (apparently sagging foundations and termites and crappy roofs and rampant mildew are just fine, however…but I digress). So we have a white door (talk about zero personality). It has been my task to add some pop to the porch, some fizz to the front entrance. I moved some things around, potted up a slew…
