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Friday, January 24, 2014

Zoe strikes again!

My daughter wrote this and posted it, and I suspect it was a dream. The dream may be fantasy, but Zoe is truly Zoe! In a creepy old house/estate - the front gate made of old thick wood with a bizarre lightning bolt sort of crack in the center so you can see the horizon through the largest part of the hole in the top. Strange markings inside the dusty house - maybe the basement but built like stables - a long hallway with small rooms on either side. Someone notices the crack in the gate is the... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, January 23, 2014

For TAPS, for Phil

Reading TAPS just now, in her comments describing her grandson Phil, I remembered a pair of poems written in response to a challenge: to write one in traditional rhyming form, and another in blank verse and based on a picture, a sketch of a Downs toddler. SLOW So steady and intent your gaze staring at me as my patience frays... So long it takes to tell you anything, to watch you process what the world brings. You don't know, not yet at any rate, my anger and dismay at this, our fate: Yours, to... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, January 21, 2014

I cleaned out my camera...

There were some pictures sitting in there, waiting to be shared. Sunsets... made of the same ingredients--light and shadow and water vapor--yet different every time! Plants blooming in the winter... and visitors in all weathers. http://www.flickr.com/photos/therovingeye/ Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, January 19, 2014

Regarding Family Issues

I appreciate how positive and supportive have been all your comments regarding my grandkid and her family. And I feel I must clarify some matters. Her mom, my eldest daughter, has always been an exceptional parent, a far more patient and energetic parent that I was. She has had her myopic spots, but I can't swear that my view is the better one, it is the one that comes to me instinctively as the parent I grew up to be, echoing my parents who were essentially negativistic sorts, especially afraid... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday morning

After a good, solid night's rest, I woke to the dulcet and very specific tones of Violetta tossing her kibbles on the carpet, and now she is barking at the birds on the back porch. It's the ring-neck doves that show up every day now, on the back porch. I've been having trouble sleeping through the night, so last night I stayed up latish, and took a sleeping tab, dyphenhydramine, which is the main ingredient in cough suppressants, too. It makes one drowsy, dulls the churning thoughts. I didn't... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, January 16, 2014

Zoe-chat

I had a chat with my granddaughter yesterday, who turned 11 on the 14th. She seems to have been given her own gmail account, no longer piggy-backing on her mom's. You might remember her from the 'ratcoons' letter she sent to the DC Humane Society. I told her about Madame LaDarque, and now she is eager to come visiting. I don't know Zoe very well, her step-brothers still less. Some things I see on brief visits worry me. That family has issues, and they will manifest, as family issues do, in the... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, January 15, 2014

It's done!

The yarns and knitting needles are all counted, and cash pay has been received: we ordered Chinese food delivery for dinner, and in the morning, the electrocity bill will be paid. I'm not used to working 8-hour days of physical labor, and while this was not swinging a pick, it was sustained, concentrated physical effort, and I'm feeling it! But I'm also feeling a bit proud, that I kept at it for the full three days, and stayed until 6 when I might have gone home at 5 each evening. It got to be a... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, January 13, 2014

sunset, sunrise

Saturday evening clouds... dawn today: http://www.flickr.com/photos/therovingeye/ And in a couple of hours, I am off again to count yarn. Charlie said that he would get to some of the unfinished painting in the garage today, while the weather is a bit warmer, but I will be surprised if he actually remembers and does it. The sun is well up now, and the wind continues in its gusting, as it did all night. Such winds often bring big weather changes. A warm front would be welcome right about now.... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, January 12, 2014

Counting yarns

Skeins and balls of soft alpaca yarns and smooth, stiff linen yarns, and synthetics and wools and... yarns in bins and yarns in tubs and yarns in glass compartmented shelves... Hanks and skeins are easy, they lay acquiesently on their shelves; rolly-polly balls, not so cooperative. I'm helping with the annual inventory at the yarn shop: three days, around 8 hours a day... Today was the first, and though it was not strenuous work, I am tired! News is that the two owners are on the outs, and the... Sign in to see full entry.

Everyone wants a change sometime

Madame sniffed at the peanut between my fingers today, and she sniffed my fingers, and the peanut again, and turned away. It isn't surprising, she has gone through two good-sized bags of peanuts since we started our little nut ritual. Some, she ate immediately, extracting them from their shells, right there on the porch railing. Others she scampered away with, usually two at a time, to hide somewhere, in one of her several caches. The day I offered her a bare almond, she seemed upset it wasn't a... Sign in to see full entry.

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