Yoo hoo. Just popping up on a Wednesday to send you a postcard!
The great summer cool down has begun in California. I've been working in the garden planting some shrubby sunflowers, a dahlia, and some purple salvias. There's always something that needs to be repotted. Geranium cuttings to start in fresh pots. Long grass to pull. It's never ever tidy or finished. The plant nation of Moss Cottage are their own masters and commanders. I mostly walk around and look at everything - keep the bird baths full of water. The back patio needs tables dragged out of the garage and cushions to plump the chairs. I'm on it. Slow as a snail and just as meandering.
School is out in 3 weeks. I drive to the classroom under grey skies with the heat on low. The last evaluation of my long teaching career was finalized a few weeks ago. While the students were taking very important, high-stakes testing I may have ordered a new wig or browsed the ebay thrift bargains for a new LLBean button-up gingham shirt for the Cotswolds. Fridays is Monopoly day in class and myself and 6 rotating players become real estate tycoons for 40 minutes or so while the rest of the class play games and entertain themselves. In addition to learning important things related to the common core standards, we are doing timed sketches of each other, and discussing the merits of various materials to be used in constructing time machines.
I'm nearly finished with my first needlepoint sheep which is going on the front of my sketchbook journal. Sister and I are comparing hats (see mine in photo above), bags, sketchbooks, waterproof shoes, underpants, sunscreens, and luggage. It's been 6 years since we took a trip out of the country and we're rusty, but terribly excited. We are now in our 60's not our 50's. Our navigational skills are good and our legs and knees and hips are in good working order for all the walks we plan to take from village to village and pub to pub. We're rented our chariot and are crossing our fingers and toes that we get a tiny automatic model. Naturally, we'll be making reel after reel on Instagram where I haven't been active in months. I hope I remember how to do it!
And one more thing. It's been almost 2 years exactly that I brought Iris and Otto Moss home. They follow me from room to room and demand to be pet. I am their servant in all matters.
Enough about me! Do fill the comments with news of your worlds. I want and expect details and stories and lots of run-on sentences. Let me peer into your life a bit.
May you be happy, safe, healthy, and embarking on great adventures in your own homes and gardens. I await news from afar.
xo
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