Yes, I Mention Rainbows

It's been a pretty mild week or two at Starbucks. Occasional bees, people talking incessantly on their cell phones, just the usual. Although I did have a couple come through yesterday that made me laugh. First, they blew right by the ordering box, while coming through the drive-thru. When they got to the window I said to them, Hey, you forgot to order, and the woman driving looked at me and said. Well, it was so confusing. There was no sign saying "order here." Hello!? Have you never been through a drive-thru? There's a big ole menu board, and then there's a dark box with a microphone under a big piece of screen? Yeah, you can order there! Of course I didn't say that. Hahahaha. So I inquire about where they're from and they tell me they're from Oregon and that they're heading to Sedona to see the Red Rocks Amphitheater. You know the big amphitheater that's built into the side of a mountain where all the really big bands play. Oh yeah, that's in Colorado. (I wanted to write hahahaha here but it sounds so mean....but hahahaha). I had to tell them. But I did feel kind of bad about the mix-up and ended up giving them a ton of information about the RED ROCKS of Sedona and where to go and some things to see, like the drive down Schnebley Hill Road. I hope they had a great day and didn't end up in Albuquerque.

I harvested and blanched all my root vegetables this week. I had turnips and beets and carrots and onions. I wouldn't have picked the onions yet except we had to move the garden boxes for the remodel. I'm kicking out the back of the house ten feet and it's exciting! B and I spent the weekend tearing up the back patio ourselves to save some money on it and the garden boxes have to go. My house is tiny so this will make it average.
There's just one thing I'm going to miss about the house as it is now. At certain times of day, the sun comes in through a skylight and makes these great rainbows in the bedroom. Well, the door to the bedroom is going to be sealed up in its current location and moved farther down the wall of the living room and the sun won't come in that way anymore. Damn. Now they'll be on the wall of the dining room so I guess they won't be gone FOREVER. Would it be worth the remodel to lose the rainbows? I don't think so.

During the remodel it is my mission, my goal, to SIMPLIFY. I want to clean out stuff! So my quote at the bottom of the page is going to be my motto. However, I am not making any promises.

Jay was sick with the flu for four days. I'm sure it was the Swine flu. That's what everyone says (would another hahaha be too much here?) I told y'all it was pandemic. I love my son. You know I do. We all LOVE our children. But four days of a "I'm too sick to go to school but not too sick to watch Sponge Bob" child will drive anyone crazy. Especially me.

Have I mentioned that I miss my parents? There was this unbelievable amount of unconditional love there. Not that I was a hard kid, or even a difficult adult (no, I wasn't, so stop saying that). But there was always a great love there. Today a girl at work looked at my ring and asked about it. It says "So, when do we dance?" on it. That was the last thing my dad said to me and I had the ring made to have still another thing to keep me aware of LIVING. I started to tell her about it and at the very last word, got a little catch in my throat. It surprised me a little. Suddenly I just saw him again, so clear and real, and man, I missed him. Now, we dance now.

If you want a golden rule that will fit everybody, this is it. Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful. - William Norris,1834-1896