I'd say excuse the mess but hell, that's what the kitchen island looks like most of the time anyway. We clear and tidy it every evening before bed but it's a work area and everything ends up on it eventually.
As you can see, Ms. Magnolia is here and what she and Mr. Moon are doing is looking at a marble that was made by the guy who gave it to her, whose name is James and HE IS THE PHONE GUY! Now this phone is not Glen's phone. Well, it is now. But it's the insurance replacement phone and he's helping Glen get it set up. He gave Maggie the marble because she wanted to know who he was and when I introduced them, he reached in his pocket and got out that marble and told us that he blows glass on the side. I told Maggie that could be her lucky charm.
Besides James of course.
And also of course, Glen has no idea what his password for the Cloud is either but I reckon they'll figure it out somehow.
When they do, I'll be reunited with my phone full-time and not getting calls from the guy buying the Subaru, or the fishing buddy, or texts about getting estimates for other cars. All that stuff.
Perhaps life will return to a sort of normal again.
I picked up Maggie at her mama's house around one and visited with Lily and Gibson and Nico who is now at that stage of kittenhood where the small creature has lost all of its baby-ness and just looks like a perfect miniature cat. She is so black and so sleek and I love her to pieces. Owen was off with friends at a river so I didn't get to see him. And then Maggie and I went to lunch and she picked Chow Time and I was hoping she would.
She ate mostly sushi and chicken on a stick and dessert. I do not think a vegetable was consumed except for the seaweed in the miso soup which she loves. I ate some vegetables and some other stuff but didn't get too crazy with it. We talked and talked and talked. I bet she asked me, "And you know what?" at least fifty times and every time I answered, "NO! What?!" She told me about the trip they just took to see Lauren's parents and I know all about Mama Goat and how scary she is and many other things of interest. They did SO much swimming.
When we got home we did a little garden picking which Maggie appeared to tolerate better than I did. The humidity is ridiculous. I feel like I need to grow some accessory gills. I took a short walk this morning and once again, I'm just proud of myself for getting out at all. The crowder peas are really coming in and we're still getting tomatoes. Maggie told me she likes me to show her things in the garden because maybe one day she'll want to have a garden.
Which is like music to my ears.
And how I love it when I find things like this.
Sure.
Special marble! What a grand gift to have just at the right time. Cheddar cheese on a pizza makes it an open faced sammich I reckon.
ReplyDeleteThe phone business gave me a headache- I have no patience for anything tech- - still have not completed my phone set up and I have had it for over six years. Maggie is getting TALL! Oh my how the time does fly! Taking care of the dollies -Sweet girl. I hope that she does not outgrow that for a very long time. The dollies need her! love
I haven't completed my phone set-up either but it's set-up plenty for me.
DeleteI think that by the time Maggie hits sixth grade she'll be taller than her Mer. She sure does love to take care of her babies.
It's as if Boppy's entire life has been thrown into disarray by leaving his phone in that rental car. Do you think he might need some counselling? "Fuck this shit" is not a remark that wise seventy year old grandfathers would normally say. I hope that Magnolia enjoys a lovely stayover with you and the sweary guy you sleep with!
ReplyDeleteGlen hardly ever cursed before he met me. I was a bad influence on him in that way. Still am.
DeleteYes. His whole life WAS thrown into disarray when he left that phone in Las Vegas. Absolutely. All of his contacts were on it and he has many, both for business and for personal. He is still in the car business and in fact, has sold a car this week, mostly by using my phone. He's in the rental business which involves people being able to call him with problems or offers and requires him to be able to reach his contacts for plumbing, electricity, air conditioning- whatever is needed to maintain the property. Do you have any idea how much he used that phone when he was getting a new house bought and set up and powered and so forth for Tom? His life is very different than yours, I think. Does he like the fact that he's tied to that phone? No. But it does mean he doesn't have to go to an office and he doesn't have to drive all over hell and back to get the information he needs. Also, he has a large number of friends with whom he is truly engaged. One of his best friends, who just recently lost his wife, has a father who had a massive stroke two days ago. Glen wanted to be able to be in touch with and go see him as he sits by his father's bed in the hospital. It's a whole lot. Glen has a full life and his phone helps him to live it.
I hope that helps you to understand, just a little bit, how much the loss of that phone complicated his life.
no apologies ever needed for a *messy kitchen*! That is a working kitchen....and that is what they all should look like (and it doesn't look messy to me). A marble, a bed with stuffies.....and Magnolia..... now if Mr Moon's phone would either appear.....or new one function....all will be well!
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It IS a working kitchen. You should have seen it by the time I got two pizzas in the oven. How in the world making pizza can create such chaos I do not know but it does.
DeleteYour island looks like a great working island. The phone saga is terrible. I hope you get your phone back soon. Magnolia June is a delight and a gardener in the making.
ReplyDeleteThat island is a great thing. The kitchen really has very little counter space so the island takes up the slack for me. For all of us, really.
DeleteMagnolia is pretty precious. And good at picking eggplants!
Hurray for Ms Magnolia! Cheddar cheese on pizza is fabulous! My favorite. Hope the phone debacle gets sorted asap. I'd be lost without mine.
ReplyDeleteHa! I made the pizza, she tasted it and said, "Oh, maybe cheddar isn't what i meant." She managed to choke down a few pieces though.
DeleteI agree looking at the adorable Magnolia June sure beats looking at the news. Honestly, I'd rather look at my cat's hind end all day than the news.
ReplyDeleteGlad Mr. Moon is getting his phone issues sorted out. I thought I had lost my credit card today and about freaked out. Then I realized I hadn't gotten it back from a fast-food drive-thru window. Damn that coffee! Thankfully when I returned, they had it. Whew. Losing a phone is just as bad. Maybe worse. I think I check my body for my phone more than for my wallet! Did Glen's friend ever 'habitat' his tiny home? I sure hope so. Glen was so very kind to do all that for him. Best Wishes from hot and humid Ohio....though, I'm sure you have us beat.
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I hear you about watching a cat's butt rather than the news. No thank you.
DeleteLosing our shit can definitely make us...lose our shit. I met Dear Brenda because I left my debit card at Costco and she found it and kept it for me. That was a lucky mistake.
I am not sure if Tom has moved into the tiny house or not. A few days ago Glen went over and redid the railings on his steps in the way that Tom said he needed and supposedly, after that, Tom was going to move in. But who knows?
Hot and humid is hot and humid, no matter where we are.
What a wonderful houseguest! The cutest little lady ever! What a mess with that freaking phone. I am so glad he found a friend. My trick is to have all my passwords in an old fashioned address book. I figure crooks don't know what that is. So freaking humid in Northern Ohio I am ready to collapse. Buh humbug.
ReplyDeleteYou are wise to keep everything written down.
DeleteIt is definitely the humidity which kills us.
She's so precious! I love her comment about having a garden one day. I can see her at 60 or 70 years old, picking beans and telling her own grandchildren about her Mer and Boppy. Isn't that a wonderful thought? You'll both live on through her for decades to come.
ReplyDeleteI was telling her stories about my grandmother and grandfather. She laughed at some of them. I love keeping them alive through stories that I tell my grandchildren about them.
DeleteWhat a great phone guy, amid all the frustration. Maggie is a lovely guest. I like the animals tucked in bed.
ReplyDeleteWell, he turned out not to be so great. He couldn't get the phone activated. He did have great tattoos though!
DeleteNothing cozier than dolls and animals all tucked up in bed together.
Technically tomato is a fruit so you'll be putting fruit sauce on your pizza, but you can add other vegetables as well as the cheese :)
ReplyDeleteI'm glad Maggie might have a garden one day and also glad Mr Moon has a phone now. The marble is beautiful. I have marbles in an old decanter so if anybody tells me I've lost my marbles I can point to them and say "no I haven't, they're right there!"
Nope. Maggie wanted no other vegetables on her pizza. I didn't fight her on the issue. I'm her grandmother, not her mama!
DeleteI have marbles too! I love the ones I've found in this year. Some are quite old, I think.
Magnolia's smile is the definition of a beam.
ReplyDeleteShe's pretty beam-y.
DeleteNope, with tomato you’ll be having a fruit pizza. How weird!
ReplyDeleteI looked around the kitchen in that first photo and wondered we everything was built so low. Then I realized I was comparing it all to Mr. Moon! How cool to have a glass-blowing hobby. I love the idea, but it’s a very dangerous craft for someone like me.
Magnolila June makes the world a better place.
Fruit pizza. Maggie was telling me all about dessert pizza so I guess that's a thing, too.
DeleteYep. Mr. Moon has very, very long legs.
The phone guy was, well, different. As Maggie pointed out, the colors of the marble matched his dragon tattoo!
Definitely a thing! Thin layer of strawberry jam topped with sliced strawberries and blobs of mascarpone, drizzled with grated dark chocolate and cooked just long enough to melt the chocolate. Yum.
DeleteOr find your own favourite toppings combination.
A phone guy that blows glass - honestly, you meet the most interesting people, Mary.
ReplyDeleteMr. Moon should write all of his passwords down on a piece of paper and hide it somewhere so he will always have them. That is what I have done but I will not tell you where I have hidden it! ;)
Maggie is a sweetie!
You should have seen his tattoos. He was in the Navy he said, and he's got tattoos from everywhere.
DeleteOh, come on! You could trust me with the location of your passwords. Mostly because if you told me, I'd forget it immediately.
Maggie is a darling.
Tomato sauce counts as a vegetable:)
ReplyDeleteI write all of my passwords down and hide them as well, otherwise, I don't even want to think about it:)
I agree. Although tomatoes are fruits, I believe their sauce is a vegetable. Sort of like when Catholics take communion and that little wafer turns into the body of Christ.
DeleteRight?
fun days with the grands always supercede the news especially since it is so horrible right now. I'm refusing to read any of it, just makes me sick to my stomach.
ReplyDeleteeverything ends up on my big work table since it's just inside the door we use to come and go.
The news makes my stomach hurt too. It is literally sickening.
DeleteI think every house has some surface upon which everything ends up at one point or another.
Wasn't it Reagan who said ketchup is a vegetable?
ReplyDeleteI have never seen a hand-blown marble, at least not a modern one. What a cool gift. It's so perfect and round and smooth.
I hope Glen gets this phone thing ironed out. It sounds like a nightmare. Funny how so often the things meant to keep our accounts secure actually wind up keeping us out of them!
Yep. Reagan for sure.
DeleteThat marble is pretty cool.
They have got to get better at the technology for recovering the data from the cloud. Or something. I do not know.
37paddington—that is one happy and beautiful granddaughter! Love that last photo especially!
ReplyDeleteShe likes to hang out on the bed...and watch videos on her phone. Sort of drives me crazy but when I was her age, I couldn't get my nose out of a book so...I sort of understand.
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