Home And Happy

This is a picture taken from my kitchen into the little space that has a tiny bathroom on the right and the pantry on the left. Obviously, I am not of the "less-is-more" school of decorating. Tchotchkes come into my life and I generally hang them somewhere. I think I recently posted about the group text my kids and I had awhile back where someone had gotten something and sent a picture and said, "I love it but I don't know what to do with it."
Hank replied, "Hang it on the wall! Did our mother not teach you anything?"
I will hang just about anything on a wall. Or in a window. The newest addition to that mess in the picture is the large metal spoon. It was Glen's grandmother's. 

Sometimes I dream about living in a space that is bare and spare with nothing but the most functional of items and perhaps a lovely jade tree in a pot. 
Yeah, well. Maybe next lifetime. 

Dang I'm tired tonight. More tired than I was yesterday after I had a walk and worked outside some and all I did was drive to town and do stuff there, none of it requiring any more physical labor than walking from the car to a building. It was a good day and I had fun. I got to see Hank and Rachel who met us for lunch after Hank's appointment, and then Lily who was serendipitously on her lunch break when I got to her Publix to do my shopping. So I sat and chatted with her and was glad to have the time with her. She is so busy now, busier than any woman should be, working full-time and taking care of her children. She is tired all of the time and no wonder. 

Where Hank and Rachel and I ate lunch is just a few blocks from the co-op and so before I took Hank home, I asked if he'd mind me stopping there to get some golden seal root powder. He is so happy with this weather that he was not upset at all to sit in the car with the windows down while I ran in. They keep the golden seal root locked up and so that was a little bit of a process but not bad. I use it for wound healing but some people claim that it can clear your system so that you can pass a piss test if necessary. Luckily, that has never been a problem for me. Golden seal is quite expensive and at the co-op, when you buy spices and herbs from the bulk jars, you scoop out what you want into a bag and then you put a twist tie on the bag with the product number on it which the cashier can then code in when they weigh the product at the register. Sometimes people used to put another product's number on it, perhaps something like turmeric which looks about the same, in order to cheat the system. So in an effort to block these nefarious people, they keep it locked up and watch you bag it and tag it. 
I understand. 

So I got my golden seal (I only buy tiny bits of it at a time- you don't need a lot) and drove Hank home and then met Lily, as I said, and then did my grocery shopping. I bought some salmon! Yay! I'm going to cook that tonight. Then I went to the library and got a few books and came home and yeah, I'm fairly well exhausted. That was more socializing and people-seeing than I've done in awhile.

I am such a borderline agoraphobe. Or something. 

I've only heard briefly from the man today. He said that their first hunt this morning was fun and successful. He also texted to tell me that the soup I sent with him was 100% thumbs up and that one of the guys said that if his wife cooked like me he'd weigh 400 pounds. I texted back, "Well, then I guess I'm glad she doesn't." 

I think I'll be going to bed early tonight. I did get out the duck- I mean, temperatures in the mid-thirties certainly call for it. Jack didn't sleep with me last night, probably because my room is the coldest room in the house- even on the chilliest nights I keep my window open a little bit and have the bedside fan on because I love to burrow down under the covers and if/when I wake up with a little hot flash, I can come out from under them, flip a few of my many pillows, and sigh with huge satisfaction at the instant heavenly relief. 
Jack, however, does not feel the same, I guess. Or perhaps he was simply tired of sleeping on my bed after spending an entire night and day there. 

Tomorrow I will be going back to town to pick up Levon and August from school and hang out and do fun things with them. I bought two boxes of animal crackers at the store for them today because of course they expect their treats. I need and want to get together with my other grands but their schedules are pretty filled up these days.  

It'll happen. 

I feel that I have been horribly remiss in my posting of Rolling Stones videos but I will give you a bit of news- they appear to have been in the studio and apparently will be releasing their first album of new material in eighteen years next summer. Also, they plan to tour America, South America, and Europe following that. 

God love those old boys. 

I sure do. 

Love...Ms. Moon