Monday, November 3, 2025

Not My Most Exciting Post


Can you guess what that picture is? Up until a minute ago it was the only picture I'd taken all day and in a little while I'll show you THAT picture which will explain what you're looking at. Now don't cheat! Don't scroll ahead.
Hahahahahahahaha! Scroll all you want. 

I got up this morning around 8:15 by the clock and when I went to kiss my husband good morning I said, "I'm adapting to this new time change pretty well, I think!" 
My life is dedicated to making Mr. Moon laugh. And he makes me laugh too. 

The day wasn't spent in what I felt was a very productive way but sometimes that just happens. Glen and I both needed to go to town and we needed to go one place together to get some bank business done, so we met there first. What we'd thought would be a simple, relatively swift situation turned out to take quite awhile and we finally decided to come back later when possibly some documents I needed to sign had come back in. The lady helping us was so very, very good at what she did as well as being kind and tolerant of our old person ways and at one point when she was talking to someone else, I realized that she had a doctor's appointment and needed to get out of there and get to it. She protested, saying, "No, I'm here to take care of you. I can reschedule," but I wasn't having that. She seemed pretty excited about this appointment and she mentioned the doctor's name when she was talking to the other person and I recognized it and had a feeling I knew what she was seeing the doctor about, especially when she mentioned she was getting some results back. 

So off Glen and I went for a quick lunch and then he went to take care of a title and license or something-something involving Owen's car and so forth because he IS the Car Guy, you know, and YES! Owen has his license now for real so understandably he would like to be able to drive his car. 
I went to Publix and stopped into the liquor store to see my Lily at work and then went back to the bank. Glen didn't need to go because I was the only one who needed to sign the documents. Our lady got back just as I got there too and she took me right to her desk and of course because I am the nosiest person in the world, I asked her if she was okay. I could tell she wasn't the same excited woman she'd been when she left. 
"Not for now," she said and I expressed my sympathy and then, even though I knew she was definitely not in the mood, she got right back to trying to get what I needed to do done, typing in this and in that in her computer, on the phone, doing all the technologic things that banking (and everything else) requires today and despite all, it could not be done today. I will get documents in the mail to sign and then take them back to her. I don't care. It's not an emergency situation. 
But then we started talking. Like...two women talking. And she needed to talk. I could tell. And so I mostly listened. She didn't talk about her doctor's appointment but about other things and one of the subjects we discussed was tall men. She'd had a rather tall boyfriend at one time and all of his friends were in the six-to-seven-foot range. By the time we'd exhausted that subject and a few more too, she was smiling, she was laughing and I was so glad. 
It's not JUST Mr. Moon I love to make laugh, you know. 

But Lord, by then it was late-ish and I drove quick-quick to Costco to get gas and buy avocados and sliced almonds but they didn't have the almonds so I just got the avocados. Finally I was on the road home. I am going to make a Chile Verde tonight with some of the leftover pork shoulder that Glen cooked. It was perfection! So I need to roast peppers and tomatillos and garlic and do all that other stuff. 

I am sorry about the absolute beigeness of this post. "And then I went to a bank and then I went to a store and then I..."

Ugh. Well. That is the way it is today. 

Here's the big reveal of what you see in that picture above.


It was a very close photo of the roots of a Swiss Cheese plant sprouting in that green bottle of water. This morning the sun was shining in the window and it got my attention. You can barely see the viney Swiss Cheese plant's leaves, tucked as they are behind the philodendron which continues to grow in a miraculous manner from a very, very small hanging pot that I only remember to water about once every week and a half. The pink blossom is from the arrangement Mr. Moon got me for...what was it? I can't remember now. Just because?  And you can see the little toy menagerie of plastic animals I've found in this yard. The colorful necklace is one Maggie made me several years ago and the other bottles are just bottles I like. Luke Skywalker is in there too, as is a small red car. Can you see them?

Off to go husk tomatillos which is something I have never done in my life. I imagine I'll figure it out though.

Love...Ms. Moon

11 comments:

  1. Sounds like a good day to me, and by now you know how easy it is to husk tomatillos. Margaret

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  2. I can't imagine a greater accomplishment than the humanity you showed the bank lady. This will be what saves us.

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  3. Nothing wrong with a day like that. Had one myself.

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  4. What you did for the lady in the bank was pure kindness. Female solidarity.

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  5. your bank lady will remember your gentle kindness.... it was a true gift of kindness and *kinship* woman to woman. You, chef extraordinaire have never shucked a tomatillo? Lordy....say it isn't so! Easiest thing you've ever done in the kitchen, no doubt! no instruction required LOL
    Susan M

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  6. I am a little sorry that bank lady didn't get the results she was hoping for. I've had a back and forth kind if day myself, walking in a freezing-just-off-the-south-pole wind but after a few back and forths I got quite warm, so thta was okay. I didn't know tomatillos needed shucking and don't even know what a tomatillo is, so now I'm off to google.

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  7. I also had to google tomatillo ! Never heard of them ....or seen them. I guess we don't get them here. Apparently they belong to the nightshade family!

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  8. Love lace curtains in windows…or lacey at least! All the other stuff just makes it fun too! Great day when you can make at least one someone happy!

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  9. Using humor is my super power to make people feel better or lighten the mood or just make people laugh. It always makes me feel better too when I am able to make someone smile.
    I like your little collection of stuff on the window sill. I have those types of things on my fireplace bricks...

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  10. My life is not so different, except no banks. I got my covid and flu shot yesterday and met someone there I used to work with. We caught up for 15 minutes and then I went back home to do dishes and laundry.
    I just noticed that one of our fence boards is off so now I have to find the cat, I hope she didn't get out of the yard, fix that and walk the dogs. That's it.
    You helped that lady at the bank. She got bad news and she found out that life goes on and she can still laugh.

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  11. Well, I knew it was plant something and a screen and what I thought was water droplets turned out to be air bubbles. And what is in the big clear glass bottle to the right, some glass thing?

    I guess my whole blog is beige because that's all it is these days...I did this, then I did that, then I did this other thing. No profound thoughts, no mental exercises, no epiphanies.

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