Hopefully still on a Friday.
I am home. I am supposed to be out again but have been a flake and cancelled at the last minute. I don’t know if I had a allergic sinus infection or a cold/but all I want to do now is sleep. I’ve taken three naps today, and lost this post more than once, so I accept that this is where I find myself.
1.First, for pleasant surprises. I was sorting through photos this morning and through one of those marvelous serendipitous alignments, a photo I took of a hydrangea blossom in California showed up directly above the lettuce from last week’s farmer’s market (posted on instagram). Aren’t they both marvelous?
2.Next, I am marvelling at how life’s little upsets sometimes deliver new joys and suprises. My computer is nigh unto death. Granted, I grumbled about troubles with Safari months ago, and have suffered a series of fixes and subsequent failures. Then, one system failure became two, then three. Still, I managed to put off a decision. When application failure number four occurred I accepted that the impending demise of the Mac, but my budgetary priorities will not accommodate a new computer at this time. Enter the iPad, which formerly did not use enough. Perhaps that is changing.
I’ve been blogging on my ipad, which, with a keypad, is proving quite useable, aside from minor glitches like needing to save my work more often to avoid loss. The iPad has easily allowed me to easily play with collages and manipulating photos, like the picture above, of my cute new travel blow dryer. I went to the sewing retreat with a book I didn’t reead and wished I had a blow dryer as my hair was at an awkward stage of the growout process. Then I discovered this tiny dryer in a tiny case that also holds all my styling supplies and fits in my little 21” suitcase with plenty of room to spare. I took it to California and still had room for a knitting project, which I ended up not needing. I came home with 20 new balls of yarns for class projects (only 2 of which I purchased)
3. One of those projects is this wonderful Trailing Vine Pillow (seen in inset) by Dee Hardwick, from the new Seasonal Palette book. Although I haven’t resume work on the pillow yet, I love every project in that book and every color in that palette.
4. I also came home to grass, mulch, and plantings. The house looks great. Trees and some shrubs are not in yet. The summer was hot and dry and long, and neither the trees, nor the remaining plantings for the front street-front border, are available yet. I picked up 13 blueberry bushes down at Overhill Gardens in Vonore a few weeks ago, and am happy that they were planted, as were another 14 azaleas I purchased a few weeks ago for the back border. Below are the blueberries being loaded into my trunk for the trip home, probably a silly photo, but I thought it was marvelous that all thirteen shrubs fit and travelled home safely.
5.Last, but far from least, below is a picture of my grandson playing Bongo at his school’s “Grandparent’s Day” celebration. His class choir was singing “Jolene” and I believe the solo was an improvisation; he pulled it off quite well, and it was by far the best part of that particular performance.
It is still Friday. I can post this, and perhaps go turn the heel on a sock before calling it a night. Have a wonderful weekend.
