Tuesday, November 16, 2021

Big Wheel Keep On Turning


The window in the little area off of the kitchen is catching the late afternoon light now and I keep bottles with plants rooting there. It is one of my favorite pieces of eye candy in the house. My house has plenty of spots that I don't really care to look at- baseboards rimmed with Lloyd's black dust, peeling ceilings, the cracking, settling wall in the kitchen...
Oh. I could go on. 
But there are places in the house that I do receive pleasure from every time I walk by them. The baby plant nursery in the laundry room is one of them, our bed, made up with cozy-looking covers, my hallway "altar" where I have my favorite Virgin of Guadalupe, seashells, pictures of the children. The window in the bathroom is another place that I like to look at. It took me years to finally yank down the stupid ugly blinds in there and make a pretty curtain out of two different vintage tablecloths and it makes me happy to see that every time I go in that bathroom which is frequently. I have plants rooting in bottles on that window sill too. 

Anyway, I'm partially on this tangent because I think that Mr. Moon is going to create an office of sorts in the bedroom we've been sleeping in for quite awhile and we will move back into our old bedroom. This means we have to buy a mattress for the bed in there because the one that's there is horrible and the one we sleep on now is wonderful but it weighs approximately six hundred pounds and we've been planning to replace the other one for quite awhile and now's the time! Motivation! This will also entail putting a piece of furniture that's in our now-bedroom into the laundry room which will look a great deal better than the card table that's in there now where I fold clothes. 
You know how it is- you change one tiny thing and the next minute you're redecorating the entire house and taking out walls and putting in a swimming pool. 
I wish. 

Jessie and Levon came out today which was lovely. Jessie had some gumbo and Levon had some soup and some macaroni and cheese and a honey and peanut butter and raisin sandwich. I ate my yesterday's leftovers and we all enjoyed sitting on the porch. Mr. Moon came in from the funeral just as we were about to sit down and he joined us. 
"How was the funeral?" I asked. 
"It was a funeral," he said. 
"Was Jesus mentioned?" I asked. 
"That name did come up," he said. 
But he learned a lot of interesting things about the woman and that's always nice. 

Levon wanted to play cards but then he changed his mind and wanted to put together a puzzle so we started that and then he wanted to put the tepee up in the middle of our puzzle-doing. He told me he just wanted to lay down in it and pretend to sleep. 
It's the easiest thing to put up in the world and so Jessie and I did that for him and when they left I told her not to put the puzzle up because GODDAMMIT! I was going to finish it. 
It's a dinosaur puzzle with all of 48 pieces. You will be pleased to hear that I did finish it. I am the world's worst jigsaw puzzler. 

Mr. Moon is getting a colonoscopy next Monday and he's not supposed to eat a whole list of things before then including nuts and raw vegetables. Forget salads, I guess. Salads are part of our supper five nights out of seven so this is going to be a tough week. 

And that's about all the news from Lloyd. Life is proceeding in its normal way. Oh! I made the cranberry/orange/apple/pecan relish for Thanksgiving. We still don't know where we're all going to get together but there WILL be cranberry relish. If the menu was entirely made up of that and turkey and dressing with gravy, I would be completely satisfied. 
As we all know, that won't be happening. 
Sigh. 

Love...Ms. Moon

24 comments:

  1. Jesus will have noted that you did not attend the woman's funeral. He has many black notebooks. I know that my name appears several times but I just don't care.

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    1. Funerals are or can be entertaining. I have not been to one is such a long time, I have forgotten that they are sad. I am a bit desperate for entertainment these days.
      Pretty pretty window! I love your window.

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    2. Mr. P.: I will save a seat for you at the bar in hell.
      Linda Sue: Not sure I've ever been to an entertaining funeral although once when I was officiating (is that the word?) a funeral, as soon as I began to speak, a piece of the ceiling fell out right in front of me. I guess that was entertaining. It wasn't in a church though, which would have been even funnier.

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  2. I don't go to funerals. I walk the labyrinth at the time of the service. Families usually are fine with this -- they know I'm doing this. My late husband didn't want a funeral, and I don't either. Simple cremation, scattering, no keeping urns around the place. They say funerals are for the survivors. I think they're an added harrowing experience at a time that's already hard enough. So I support your decision for various reasons!

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    1. I suppose I want a party or whatever it is that my family wants to do when I die. I really do not care and obviously, I will neither know OR care when I go. I think that some sort of ritual is not a bad thing after a death. Perhaps it helps the grieving to cope by having set things they must do. I sort of like the Jewish custom of sitting Shiva. Letting the world go on as it will while the family and loved ones left behind can take a few days to do nothing but mourn.
      I like your labyrinth walking. What and where is this labyrinth?

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  3. Part of going to a funeral is paying respects. I don't want one because I think most of those who have loved me are gone.

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    1. Oh, I imagine that there are quite a few who will mourn you.

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  4. I'm amazed/impressed that you have two cats and those bottles with plants rooting in them, stay on the shelf. Our cat would have swept them off the windowsill within a day.

    The bottles are so beautiful, especially with the light coming through.

    We had a snow storm last night and this morning. Lots of snow but not terribly cold, now that the wind has died down.

    Poor Jack is sick again. He seemed very quiet after daycare and I took his temp and he has a fever again.

    Poor Mr. Moon. I hate colonoscopy preps. I can't believe that human beings hold that much shit. I wish him well.

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    1. Those are upper window sills and my cats aren't notorious for knocking things off of things. Occasionally they'll bat an object off a counter or table. They save their evil for scratching us.
      I can't believe you had snow or that horrible storm.
      I hope that Jack feels better today. Poor little guy. He's been having a rough go, hasn't he?
      Thanks for the wishes for Mr. Moon's "procedure."

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  5. all the lovely jars, vases with rooting greenery are indeed food for the eyes and soul. Dust be damned! I have shitloads of dust.....living in a place where winds abound this time of year.....but the rooting things here lift me up also!
    Susan M

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    1. PS that lacy sheer curtain is a thing of beauty!
      Susan M

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    2. Thank you, Susan! Growing things are always cheerful to me. And I do have a special affinity for baby plants. Of course.
      My darling friend Sue got me that curtain in Italy in the early nineties. Isn't it beautiful?

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  6. Oh goodness, now you've given me an idea! I collect pretty coloured bottles too (otherwise known as dust collectors) and I never thought of rooting plants in them. Such a simple idea but .... And Mr. Moon's comment about the funeral - very succinct!

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    1. Yes! Root some plants in your bottles! Something green and growing during your winter would be cheerful.

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  7. Best of luck choosing a new mattress. These days it seems like picking one is almost as disorienting as trying to choose one yogurt in the sea of supermarket yogurts. Way too many choices.

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    1. We know we want a Tempur-Pedic mattress. That's what we're sleeping on now and it is by far the most comfortable bed we've ever slept on. It is heaven. They are not cheap but they are worth what they cost.

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  8. Thanksgiving will be at my daughter's crowded house. That's fine. I was expecting she would want it here so I'm relieved. I'm relieved a lot these days when I don't have to do stuff. I'm also relieved to not be going on the trip to Ecuador and the Galapagos with my grandgirls having been relieved of all guilt by Autumn. I would have just held them back from some of the stuff they want to do anyway.

    I think maybe I want to put a curtain up in the big bathroom, at least the bottom half, not that there is anyone outside to see in or if there was they would just see head and shoulders but the way the house is built, at night with the light on in there from my inhouse workroom I can see Marc standing by the window doing his business. Just head and shoulders but I know what he's doing. So I think I'll start looking for a nice piece of vintage cloth at estate sales.

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    1. I hear you on the not having to do stuff relief. Phew! The trip to Ecuador and the Galapagos probably would have been amazing but if you aren't feeling it, why should you go?
      Your story about wanting a curtain, not necessarily for privacy, cracked me up. I hear you.

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  9. It's kind of exciting to change things up in the house, isn't it? That's a drag about the colonoscopy. I don't remember being prevented from eating veg for days in advance the last time I had one. That seems rather draconian.

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    1. Doesn't it? This is what I found on the internet: "Things that liquefy quickly will get washed out easily." By contrast, he said, high-fiber foods like vegetables, fruits, nuts, seeds and grains are often undigested when they make their way to the colon, and they can interfere with the examination of the colon."
      Sounds a bit suspicious to me. Doesn't fiber HELP the digestive system clear itself?

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  10. Ha! I certainly know about changing up one thing in the house. We are changes our couches which of course has led to the kitchen needing to be fixed, and I believe the swimming pool will go in after that! Well, you know what I mean. That dressing sounds heavenly. And August wanting to lie down and "pretend to sleep" is the most precious thing I've heard today.

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    1. Haha! I'm already thinking I should buy a new quilt for the new bed and I need blinds in that room or a curtain or something. I need to get busy, right?
      I adore the way children's brains work. They have absolutely the most interesting and charming ideas.

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  11. It's my sister's turn to do Thanksgiving but my kids and grandkids won't fit in her house (really her house is so nice and they would wreck it) so we will celebrate at my house but she will make a lot of the food! I get to make easy stuff like stuffing and sweet potatoes. She will handle the turkey, gravy, potatoes and desserts, etc., etc. Hurray for me!
    Good luck with the switching rooms extravaganza! It might be fun!

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    1. That sounds pretty okay to me. As long as you don't end up doing about a hundred last-minute things.
      Mr. Moon pointed out that we will be making a new honeymoon suite. He is such an optimist!

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