Thursday, April 26, 2012

Safe Return

I am home. Oh yes. I know you have missed me.
Hahahaha!

I missed you, though.

I had a very, very nice time. If there are any two nicer, sweeter, more gracious people than Lon and Lis I would have no idea who they were. And if you asked anyone else who knows them if they know anyone sweeter they would say the same. No. They do not. We went to a very fine place in Melrose, Florida for lunch. Melrose is about fifteen miles away from Gatorbone and it's of those places that you feel as if maybe you've been living there for your whole life (maybe a better life) in one of the charming houses, some parallel universe thing and we passed one house and Lis said, "D.H. Lawrence lived there," and I was like, "What???!!"
Anyway, the restaurant served us salads the size of semi-truck hubcaps and we ate and ate and ate and ate and Lon finished his and Lis and I didn't and then I felt like I was in a coma because we got VODKA TONICS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DAY BECAUSE IT WAS LIS'S BIRTHDAY! and between the vodka (not really very much, I swear) and the salad (way too much) I could barely move so then we went and got coffee and Lis and I had our toenails done.
It was awesome but Lis now has bruises where the massage chair massaged her. She is like the princess and the pea, that girl. I swear.
On our way home we stopped and Lon bought Lis the prettiest little rose. It starts out orange and then gets pink and it looks like dawn in every one of its blossoms and Lon planted it for her and also her tomatoes. He was Garden Boy for her birthday. We sat in the garden and admired him working and also our toes.
Then he made us martinis and I made a cake and then he cooked us little organic beef hamburgers on the grill and we ate outside and listened to the chuck's widow's will and the sandhill cranes and we watched the moon and the stars shine bright silver, brighter than the silver in Cozumel when you buy it which is mighty bright.

This morning Lis made pancakes AND bacon and we ate outside again and then Lis and I went to Keystone Heights and bought some more plants and dogfood and went shopping at an antique type store but we didn't buy anything there. But it was fun.

And now I'm home and it's all just the same and that makes me happy. Oh. We do have a new baby chick that our neighbor gave us to put in with our baby chicks because this chick's mama was a no-good crackhead hen who wouldn't take care of her baby. Flopsy is still sitting on all of those eggs and we've now marked them so at least she won't be sitting on ANY MORE eggs than the four hundred she's already sitting on because we bring them in.

Mr. Moon and I are going to town in a little while to baby sit our boys so that Lily and Jason can have a little date. I'm pretty excited about that.

Gibson has started smiling! What? Yes! Proof:


It's like- who is THAT baby? What? What have they done with Morty?

And talk about smiling. Mr. Moon took this picture of Owen yesterday:


So I'm looking forward to that and I'm home and I had a great time and I did get a little lost on my way home but it wasn't my fault in that they had the entrance to I-10 blocked off but I eventually found my way back and that's what counts.

Yours truly...Ms. Moon

20 comments:

  1. That is a great picture of Owen!

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  2. And thank god that you did...found your way back!

    Sounds like it was fabulous, makes me happy that you sound happy.

    And those boys....beeeee u ti ful! I think Gibson is going to be a world leader. He just looks like he knows everything he will ever need to know right now, and it still makes him happy (that just might be the definition of Bhudda )!

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  3. I *did* miss you.

    Wait, that that the same I-10 that is just a few miles from here? I could jump on that freeway and get all the way to north Florida?

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  4. Welcome home, your trip sounded wonderful. Those boy, those great big smiles! Wonderful.
    xo

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  5. You make every day sound idyllic.

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  6. I am so glad that you went, had a wonderful time and came back!

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  7. You have seen it several times over but I am still amazed at how babies so quickly learn to interact with their surroundings so soon after birth. That is an awesome picture of Gibson and Owen's face shows such pure enjoyment. I did miss you and am so glad you enjoyed your time with good friends. Joanne

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  8. Glad that you are safely back and had a great time. Just a wee break is good.

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  9. Oh, oh my heart. Gibson and Owen, that crackhead hen (hello, wine spit on the screen of my Mac):

    Glad you're home. Glad you got away.

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  10. Glad you had so much fun! Those two grandbabies of yours are adorable-but you know that!

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  11. Glad you are home, glad you had a great time, and glad you posted those pictures because they are awesome. Enjoy the weekend.

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  12. Yay! Your're home and writing again! Oh, Vodka! Oh, Gibson! Oh, Flopsy!, Oh, Owen! Oh, bacon! I've missed you all.

    hahahaha! verification word: reporc

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  13. Sounds like a marvelous adventure and just the right amount of hanging out and eating. My two favorite things.

    Welcome back.
    xo

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  14. Glad you got away, glad you had fun, glad you found a way to mark those eggs, and yes, i believe he is smiling, after all your boys are as precocious as they are precious and we have I-10 here in south Louisiana, too, and it behaves the exact same way, i promise.

    In fact, around here, all instructions to get anywhere start with "get on I-10", which has no beginning and no end.

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  15. Welcome home!
    What a fantastic visit and Happy Birthday to Lis. I love when you write about those two. That rose sounds divine. Great pic of G and O too!!! Pure joy!

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  16. If that rose is a climbing/trellis rose, it is probably a Joseph's Coat, the prettiest rose in my yard. (And that yellow plant in the water, the one you couldn't name? My pal who is self-taught in wildflowers thinks it might be yellow flag).

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  17. Sweet, sweet, happy children!
    (This includes you.)

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  18. I think Owen looks a bit like Mr. Moon in the picture he took.

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  19. Glad to see you are home safe, dry, and having had a sweet time with Lon and Lis. And Oh Those Boys! Each picture made my insides happy. x0 N2

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