As I typed the day for Art Every Day Month, I realized I have a library book overdue as of yesterday! But yesterday was a busy day so I’ll pay the fine and consider it my donation to the future reading of my area.
Yesterday was all about finally pulling the living room together. We pulled the wall to wall carpet up sometime in July. I think we got the wood floor in last month (one gets so used to living in chaos one doesn’t even number the days). Finished painting and touchups yesterday, put the area rug down and brought in the tropicals. It is good that it has been so mild because the tropicals usually come in no later than October 16 and here it is November 23!
So we have repainted the entire room, including the cathedral ceiling, put in an oak floor (stained cherry because that’s what we put in the dining room several years back), bought new drapes, bought a new rug, and rescued the dust catchers from the shed where I put them in 06 when we thought (ha!) we would sell the house and move closer to D.C. for hubby’s work. Great timing – right as the bottom fell out of the market. So here we are and I’m not complaining because I love this house and our yard but then I’m not driving 60+ miles each way to work, either.
He rides a motorcycle to work, which he loves doing and which is easier on the environment, one hopes. Which is all
good and well until deer rutting and hunting season (i.e., the deer are a bit nuts over sex and their very lives). If you aren’t on my Facebook you don’t know that a deer jumped out in front of him on our 2 lane no shoulder road in the wee hours of the morning Friday night. He’s fine. The motorcycle isn’t. The deer died. He says he didn’t even have time to hit the brake: not there, there. That’s deer hair in the rim of the motorcycle if you blow it up.
I know it was traumatic because he said he thought for about a minute that maybe it was time to give up riding (as he was limping home because he couldn’t get the motorcycle to start). But that went away. We both agree that when you let fear rule your life it closes everything down. And I don’t know much, but closing down is the exact opposite of a life lived to to the fullest!
So he woke me up and we got our old van and the ramp we used when we had our live sound business in the back of it and ran back up the street and got the motorcycle and loaded it in and brought it home. As it turns out being dressed for cold night weather saved him – his electric pants ripped, his jeans ripped and his wallet ripped. So his wallet literally saved his, um, backside. Heavy boots protected his feets and ankles and the leather jacket his back. He wound up in dirt (before the guard rail thank goodness) and weeds. Didn’t hit any broken bottles (also thank goodness since there are folks that drive this road that think it’s their own private trashcan). All in all he was very VERY luck! We have amazing guardian angels in this family!
So my offering for today is photos of the house stuff we did yesterday. Isn’t it fun to look at other folks’ homes? I love it! Also, my attempt at photographing the moon. I don’t know the right apertures, but like to try anyways. It wasn’t quite full last night (the day after the full) and it always looks so beautiful coming up from the back of my yard through the trees. It was very clear last night so it was very bright.
Enjoy!
Wylde Women’s Wisdom
Our stories arise from our hearts and our souls. In this sense, telling our stories becomes a sacred gesture, opening a clear way to that deep, ecstatic center where we are most uniquely our selves, individual and unique, and yet are ourselves, joined together at the heart. Susan Wittig Albert
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So glad you hubby is safe! I love seeing the deer when we are driving but I’d like them to stay in the fields LOL. Thanks for the wisdom quote. Very helpful for me today.