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Around Here

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Around here it feels like I’m in a holding pattern. There’s much I wish to do this spring but first I have to get through some work projects and the weather needs to improve.

Around here I’m trying to find balance and rest, productivity and completion. I’m building habits, not by adding to my day but by letting go of the unnecessary. I’m turning off the tv and trying to slowly sift through some small home projects.

Around here, my new bedtime routine has become the best part of the day. I don’t do anything different when it comes to getting ready for bed but have come to think of turning down the bed, washing away the residue of the day, and enjoying classical music while reading myself to sleep as both ritual and luxury.

Around here, good enough is better than perfect and perfect is the enemy of done. Things really just need to be done.

Around here Scout seems to have developed seasonal allergies, I’m having a dental bridge done and there’s an issue with my leg. Between the two of us, we’re kind of a mess.

Around here, the flowering quince is in bloom, and daffodils have exploded. Tiny pink and purple flowers dot the yard in places. Wild onions grow and weeds are sprouting everywhere. Everyone is tempted to start their yard work, a bad decision for the pollinators that are still waking up. Around here they need us to hold off a while longer.

Around here things are hard but there is hope that life will be easier soon, that the sun will shine, and that White Lightning will be ready for a day trip when I’m ready to go.

Friends, it’s Friday. The weekend is so close we can almost touch it. Whether you’re around here or around there, wherever there may be, you deserve something good today. Enjoy this day, stay safe and be happy.

Fall Fever In Mid Summer

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The urge to transition from summer into fall is becoming intense. This is never a surprise given how much I prefer fall over summer but it’s surprising that I’m already thinking about it.

I typically make it to Labor Day before indoor decor transitions to pumpkins and plaids, woodsy aromas and piles of recipes for soups and baked goods. It’s normally late September before I pull out a few Halloween decorations and begin stockpiling mums, asters and pumpkins on the front porch like some sort of pumpkin spice emergency may lie ahead.

And yet, here we are.

We’ve recently had a couple of mornings that felt like fall. Low sixties with blue skies and a slight rustle in the trees feel refreshing enough to trick you into believing summer will be over soon.

I have already started a stack of movies, books and tv shows for fall and am thinking about recipes. I’ve been looking for some vintage amber glassware and am wishing I had planted some pumpkins. How fun would it be to have your own backyard pumpkin patch?

I always say that half the fun is in the planning and anticipation. I suppose this will give me plenty of time to be ready!!

Vacation

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“Vacation used to be a luxury, however, in today’s world, it has become a necessity.” Anonymous

I have a couple of trips coming soon and they can’t get here quick enough. Ordinarily, I think that half the fun is the anticipation of the trip but my life has kept me so busy lately it’s too painful to even dream about the good things that are to come.

I need the time off more than ever and am grateful it will be here soon.

What about you? Did you squeeze in a summer vacation? Where are you going? The picture above is from a Washington DC trip a couple of years ago.

You Can’t Buy Happiness

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You can’t buy happiness but you can buy books and that’s kind of the same thing.

That’s especially true when there is a favorite author’s new book and a free afternoon at hand.

Fannie Flagg has been threatening to retire for some time, saying that each of her novels will be the last. In fact, I still haven’t read the book she released a few years ago because once I read it I will no longer have a Fannie Flagg book to anticipate reading.

How nuts is that?

In case you aren’t familiar, she is the author of the novel “Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe” which was turned into a hit movie starring Jessica Tandy and Kathy Bates in 1991.

She has written many other wonderful books and she tells the rest of the Fried Green Tomatoes story in a new novel called “The Wonder Boy of Whistle Stop.”

When I bought the book, I swore that I would read slowly, cherishing each word and really savor the experience.

These were lies. All lies.

I tore through this book in a marathon reading session Saturday.

It was wonderful. The book leaps through time ranging from the 1930s when Whistle Stop was still a bustling railroad community through present day. You meet new characters and catch up with some old ones, learning some of the story behind the story.

It was delightful.

The book isn’t without faults but it was nothing that can’t be overlooked.

Plus, it was exactly what I needed to take my mind off the madness of the world around me.

How are you relaxing these days? Have any authors to recommend? I am always on the prowl for a new read so don’t hold back!

Happiness Is…..

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Happiness is having something to look forward to. Along this vein, I ordered stamps so that I can do a better job of sending cards and letters to friends.

These arrived in the mail this week, little squares of artwork that enable me to send communications from my mailbox to someone else’s.

I practically did a cartwheel in the road.

It takes so little to make me happy and I’m fine with that.