Saturday, December 28, 2019

Pretty Flowers


You know what? Today was just good. Okay, sure, when I first woke up it felt anything BUT good but that's normal for me. I'd been dreaming of working at a daycare center and not doing a good job of it and someone breaking something made of glass and a child stepping on it and then an adult showing me her foot which had a knife completely embedded in it and Lord God Almighty that was enough of that dream.
Am I worried about feet? Sharp objects? Sharp objects and feet?
Who knows? Not me.
But I managed to pull myself together and acclimate back to this world (not going to call it the real world because who knows?) and I took all of the trash and recycle to the place where we do that and everyone else in Lloyd obviously had the same idea because it was packed, people shoving cardboard into the cardboard recycle bin and so forth. Whenever I have to break down a cardboard box I always think about John Waters. He wrote a book about his experiences hitchhiking across the US called "Carsick" and how he felt so unmanly when he realized that he couldn't even break down a box to make a sign on indicating where he wanted to go. I, too, have problems breaking down a box and soon after I had read the book, we went to visit Jessie and Vergil where they were living in Asheville and they showed us the shelves that Vergil's mom had made for their kitchen which were beautiful and well-crafted.
"Jeez," I said. "I can't even break down a cardboard box."
And it's true although I did manage to flatten mine enough today to get them in the bin.
I felt so triumphant! Look at me! Being all box-flattening and shit!

Our friends Anna and Taylor are both in town for Christmas and Hank had set up a lunch at Midtown where May works for us to all get together to see them. I didn't realize how much I've missed them and how much I love them until they walked in the door and I started crying.
"How are you?" asked Anna, who is a very proper (in her way) doctor of history and I said, "Emotional as ever, as you can see."
Anna has moved back to South Dakota to teach at a university there, and Taylor and her husband have moved to Houston where they both have good jobs. And I'm glad for all of them but Tallahassee feels a little less than itself with those two gone.
I am SO proud of Taylor. She started working in restaurants awhile back and she has gone from doing the grunt work in various places and the only chef at a little cafe where she used to work with May to being the head prep chef in a brewery attached to some other venues (one of them huge) in Houston. She has learned to prep meals for five hundred people!
I asked her if she got good benefits. She said she has two new teeth, was about to get another one, had good medical insurance, was being paid for her vacation, and when she got back she would have her very own new prep room with a new walk-in and SHE IS IN CHARGE!
Whoa, Tay-Tay!
"There will be no yelling in my prep room," she told us.
And I bet there won't be.

Lunch was good and it was great to see May and give her her other Christmas present which I had mistakenly given to Hank. Lily and Lauren and Magnolia were there. Magnolia was in a sprightly mood and at one point wanted to go outside so we could take her picture.


She is such a pretty child. I tried to get her to pose beside or in front of the glorious poinsettias but no, she had to be standing on that little wall. 
She is the boss of me. 
Hell, she's the boss of everyone. 
She asked me to take her to the restroom, which I did of course, and when I asked her if she needed to go she hemmed and hawed and said that no, she just had some germs she needed to wash off her hands. 
So we pushed our sleeves up and washed the germs off our hands. 

I came home and cleaned the hen house and tidied up a few things and did some laundry and then sat on the couch and embroidered French knots on a pair of green corduroy kid overalls and watched "Schitt's Creek" which is not the best thing I've ever watched on TV but it's certainly not the worst. The acting is fantastic. How could it not be with Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara? 

And then Mr. Moon got home from a basketball game and one thing led to another. 
As things sometimes do. 
If you're lucky.
Which I am. 

Now he's getting his smoker ready to make venison jerky in. It's drizzling rain and supposed to rain all day tomorrow and Monday and then get cooler again which will be nice because it's been a lot warmer the last few days. As we speak I am wearing a short-sleeved shirt and am barefoot. In fact I hear a frog tweeting out his bird-like song. Our frogs don't croak, they sing. 

Another picture of camellias. 


The world can't be all bad if there are flowers growing that look like that in it. I'm holding on to that thought tonight. I'll try to remember it tomorrow when I wake up with whatever horror show I've dreamed about on my mind, leading me to despair and deep, existential angst. 

We shall see how that works out.

Love...Ms. Moon



18 comments:

  1. I've had such weird dreams lately that I wonder why I bother going to bed...No need of reality TV in this house...Have a peaceful night.

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    1. You're right- no need for reality TV with dreams that rock you awake. Sometimes they are interesting but sometimes they are terrifying.

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  2. I've had a lot of weird dreams of late, too -- last night I was back in college, looking for a place to live and trying to figure out how to take care of Sophie while going to classes. And I was still 20 years old. Go figure.

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    1. Girl! I have had so many dreams about being in college and having babies I needed to take care of. The truth is, I did have two children when I was in school, quite young, and I know I felt very torn about them going to preschool. So I guess that makes sense.

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  3. If say you're afraid of the future unrolling in front of all our children. It's a very unsafe one, broken glass and knives make sense.

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    1. That could be, Jo. Better than any answer I could come up with.

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  4. Those camellias are gorgeous flowers. You're right, the world can't be all bad with flowers that look like that.

    Hope you had sweet dreams. I dreamed about a little owl the other night, it was so sweet.

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    1. Oh! A sweet dream! About an owlet. I would like a dream like that. There are those dreams that you just wake up from and smile...

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  5. Oh, those camellias! You have such a way with things that grow out of the ground. The natural world loves you.

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    1. Well, it's pretty easy to grow things here in North Florida. The main problem is growing what you want while trying to battle the things you don't!

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  6. seems weird dream life is in the air for many of us. I had another one last night involving packing a suitcase, people rushing me, a guy complaining that couldn't I do something about my hair as I was going to meet his father (or some alpha male) and I told him I could have brushed it if he hadn't made me pack everything up and sorry but my hair just naturally fell into locks. and then we joined this group of people and me and the father guy got along great.

    those pink perfections are.

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    1. Sounds like a pretty complex dream, Ellen! I wonder what in the world that was all about. I'm glad you got along with the father guy though.
      Aren't those pink perfections just?

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  7. I assume that "Schitt's Creek" is a medical programme. It's great that bowel problems are now being dealt with in an open manner - even on television. And how admirable of Eugene and Catherine to allow the spotlight to focus upon their own bowel issues.

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    1. Haha! Nope. Not a medical program. Just a silly program. (As we spell it here in the US.)

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  8. I somehow surfed upon your blog and liked your random thoughts that seem to fit just right. I sorta wonder...does the children's other Christian grandmother have a blog? Although I like your writing, I'm perhaps more like the other grandmother but that's OK as I don't really judge people by my standards but I was reared in a Christian home...so my Christian character is embedded in me... I have set your blog as a favorite...

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    1. Oh dear. I am afraid that my blog may offend you at times. I am definitely NOT a Christian. But I'd love to have you here for as long as you'd like to be. And no, the other grandmother does not have a blog as far as I know.

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  9. OK, I am LOLing at that comment above. What is UP with people? LOL

    Well, Maggie IS posing beside the poinsettias, sort of -- so she compromised the situation for you. :)

    I read that "Carsick" book years ago and I don't remember the box bit at all, but I thought it was a funny book. John Waters is truly an individual.

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  10. All caught up now! Magnolia June shines brighter than those poinsettias.

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