Thursday, March 16, 2023

Fun With Family


That's one of our canopy roads around here, Miccosukee Road, to be exact. I was driving on it to get from Chow Time to Bad Girls Get Saved By Jesus Thrift Store this afternoon. 
It is a very beautiful road and it was a gorgeous day and I took great pleasure in driving it. I lived on Miccosukee Road when Hank was born but that was the part of the road that's in town. It goes from Tallahassee way out into the boonies, in fact- to the Land Co-op where surprisingly, I never lived. Hank himself lived in the same little apartment in Tallahassee with his then-girlfriend, Taylor, on Miccosukee Road many years later. Jessie lives a few blocks from there now and the house that we lived in before we moved here was on a road that dead-ended on Miccosukee Road. 
Come to think of it, back when Mr. Moon and I were raising the kids, we lived on a road called Short Street for twelve years and that, too, was only a few blocks from Miccosukee. The elementary school that all my kids attended is on that road too. 
So I have a history with it but my favorite part is the part that meanders and curves through the rural part of east Leon County. It won't look like that forever. There is a lot of traffic on it now and many are calling for it to be widened which will mean death to the giant oaks that make it the beautiful and unique thing it is. 

Yes. I went to Chow Time. I met Lily and Owen and Gibson and Maggie there for lunch and we had such a good time. I probably embarrassed Owen to death as I wore a dress and Crocs with socks. Oh well. He knows me. He is inches taller than I am now. I am truly curious to see how tall he gets. 
Maggie was in especially fine form, happy as a little lilting lark, and Gibson, who will turn eleven on Monday, was happy too. We ate our delicious foods and then we went to the thrift store to look for treasures. 
The best thing I saw was this sign. 


This led me to wonder which section of the store one should abandon their child? The knick-knacks? Purses and hats? Possibly. 

And then off we all drove, me down more back roads because it was way too glorious to get on the interstate, and when I got home I found Mr. Moon in a tizzy, trying to figure out technology things and writing a legal-sort of letter and I've spent some time now trying to help him. Of course he's a Hewlett Packard guy and I'm a Mac woman and the printer is the demon from hell so now he's on the phone with Vergil. He did a great job, however, of writing the letter. I keep telling him- it's not too late to go to law school. 
I swear- the man can tear a contract apart and he can write a lease. These are just a few of his secret super powers. He's never believed in himself when it comes to anything involving writing or reading because I am sure he had dyslexia as a child and was told that he was NOT SMART because of it and yet, here he is, having been the owner of several business, and able to represent himself beautifully. He is not just smart, he's a fucking genius. 


There's what the corner of the porch looked like earlier this afternoon. 

And now I must run because we're having our St. Patrick's Day dinner tonight because the man may be at the coast tomorrow. My entire reason for celebrating St. Patrick's is to be able to make and eat corned beef and cabbage, and Irish soda bread. The corned beef has been simmering for quite awhile and the soda bread is in the oven. Carrots and potatoes and cabbage need to go in with the meat. 
I am excited. 

Love...Ms. Moon


26 comments:

  1. glorious day for you.......in family and in experiences (photos too!). I too am looking forward to my corned beef dinner.....which will not happen until Saturday......but hey, it's never too late for that once a year feast! I'm marketing tomorrow and lucky me.....corned beef is on sale (as it were)
    Susan M

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    1. I'm thinking I should get another corned beef this coming week when they'll be on sale and just freeze it.

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  2. My CB&C turned out great and I have plenty of leftovers ... I will be eating on it for a few days!

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  3. In he room where many of us gather before dinner, there is posted a notice of Pope Francis' dispensation of the meat requirement for Friday, and enjoy your dinner. I'm pretty sure we'll have a traditional meal on offer.

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    1. Oh my Lord. So the Pope says that it's okay to eat corned beef on St. Patrick's day? I didn't know that Friday/no meat rule was still even a thing. I remember eating fish sticks at school every Friday and someone finally told me why. I liked fish sticks okay so I didn't mind.

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  4. Happy St Patrick's Day (it's here already!). Your porch looks amazing. Mr Moon is, indeed, a genius (he married you). I hope they don't widen that road - it is too beautiful.

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    1. I think that probably at best, they'll only widen the parts of it within Tallahassee itself.

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  5. I've been reading here a while now and I believe you when you say Mr Moon is a genius. The way he makes and fixes things shows that, and being able to write legal letters just reaffirms that. I must look into Irish Soda Bread, maybe I can make that more successfully than my previous breads. Unless it's a sourdough. I don't like sourdough.

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    1. Irish soda bread isn't a sourdough. It's a quick bread with baking soda and buttermilk.
      Mr. Moon really is good at so many various things. Over the years I've learned more and more what he is capable of and respect him all the more for it.

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  6. That canopy road is indeed beautiful isn't it. We have one like that about 2 km from me that I use nearly every day and I never tire of it. That being said, it kinda tickled me to think of Mr. Moon living on Short Road. Someone had a sense of humour!

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    1. It's even more beautiful on other stretches. We have more canopy roads here, some of them not even paved. They are part of the richness of this area, I think.

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  7. You are so proud of your man!
    I love that photo on your porch. I would sit there and read my book and not get any other work done!

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    1. I AM proud of him and have every reason to be. He continuously astounds me.
      I don't sit on my porch nearly enough. I should.

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  8. I love driving on the back rural roads. so much more pleasant that highways. funny how some things seems to connect to us, Miccosukee Road to; the number 30 to me. All three of the houses I lived in for major portions of my life had the number 30 included in the address except for this house though it does have a zero.

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    1. That's funny, Ellen- the number 30 sounds indeed like it is "your" number. I bet you have lots of pretty back roads too.

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  9. I love to drive our ever decreasing back roads. This area is prime real estate and lovely views tend to be built on so the residents have a lovely view of each other's houses!

    I love that porch. I think Porch should have her own picture -rich blog.

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    1. I'm not sure who all owns a lot of the stretches of Miccosukee when you get to the boonies. I believe that a lot of it is owned by plantations. Yes. We still have plantations. However, most of them are hunting or horse or cattle-based. As long as the families can hang on to them, there won't be construction on that land.

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  10. May I please come sit on your porch? I am having a rough day! Tell Mr. Moon not to listen to you about law school. Florida already has too many lawyers! Although, I'll bet the nearest free legal clinic could use his help!

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    1. Yes you may come sit on my porch. It would sooth you for sure.
      Mr. Moon has no desire to go to law school so don't worry!

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  11. The top picture is so lovely - the colours so vibrant and the greens look new and fresh, filled with promise. What a fine road to drive along listening to country music on the radio:-
    I've been cooped up, tied down, 'bout forgotten
    What a field looks like, full of corn and cotton
    If I'm gonna hit a traffic jam
    Well it better be a tractor man
    So sick and tired of this interstate system
    I need a curve and wide a twistin'
    Dusty path to nowhere
    With the wind blowing through my baby's hair
    Yeah, it makes me wanna take a back road
    Makes me wanna take the long way home

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    1. That's great, Mr. P! Who wrote it? I don't recognize it.

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