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The book I produce every year for my kids and grandkids will be a little sparse this year. Usually I include my poetry and stories from my childhood and, sometimes, family stories from more recent years. This year all they are getting is poetry. Instead of a 1” three-ring binder, it’s a ½” binder.It has been a year of great stress worrying about my mother and running over to the nursing home almost every day to see her. Once I decided to put the house on the market that added a level of activity I’d just as soon forget.I don’t consider tag sales fun, nor do I think all the work of getting the house presentable for sale as fun. My kids worked hard to help me with both “non-fun” events and I can’t thank them enough. However, it took up most of my time. No time for writing.The poetry will feel lost in the smaller binder, but they don’t make ¼” binders.☺ I don’t think my kids read the first three volumes, so perhaps they will consider the smaller volume as that much less to not read! ☺ As a matter of fact, the only person I know of who has read the previous three volumes is my daughter-in-law’s mother. She reads them while she waits for Jonathan to get on the school bus.I recently came across this bit of wisdom, which seems appropriate here: “If you are looking for approval, you will never find enough to satisfy you.” I should tape that all over my house to remind myself to stop looking. ☺☺
I’m playing catch-up again. Since my last posting I have been way too busy and doing a lot of whining about time being speeded up. We are led to believe that we still have 24 hours in every day, but the mad scientists of the world (or the Universal Forces) have found a way to compress things when we are not observing the passage of time.It’s not a conspiracy theory! Well, ok, maybe it is. But why do so many people whine right back at me they don’t have enough time in a day either? It doesn’t matter how fast I go, or how tired I get trying to get everything done in a day…I still don’t have enough time.I’m retired! I don’t know how you people who work every day do it.
There have been poetry events that I did and did not attended; I had breakfast with some of my high school classmates; went to a CAPA meeting and they have so much good stuff coming up for members I joined. Hadn’t planned on joining so soon, but it seemed beneficial to join now.
My house is still for sale. It’s been on the market 2 ½ months now. I just had a showing after almost three weeks of no action. Right now the market is dead…it’s the holidays. The tax credit has been extended, so when January rolls around I expect things will pick up. The condo where I’m supposed to live probably hasn’t come on the market yet, otherwise I’d have had a solid offer by now. Once where I’m supposed to go is available, my house will sell.
AND the best day of all was this past Sunday when my friend Liz and I went to Olde Mystic Village to get psychic readings at Mystical Elements (Building 8J). Jess and Matt met us for lunch which we had at a great little place, Bleu Squid, (Building 12D) that’s a bakery, artisanal cheese shop and grilled cheese cafe, homemade soups and salads. After lunch we walked around and visited a few shops before Matt had to leave us. We took pictures posing with Hissy’s behind. Matt is responsible for getting Hissy's name pasted on her back side. Matt, you are a sweetie!
That left Liz, Jess and me on our own to walk a few more shops. Then it was off to Niantic to visit the Book Barn. I had never been there before and the experience was overwhelming! I found the little nook where the poetry books were located and had to walk away. There were too many books in too small a space. Jess lit out for her idea of more interesting stuff, while Liz and I found the Arthurian section. Everything is relative. I bought 4 books I hadn’t planned on buying and Liz bought one.
My four books:“Arthur’s Britain” and “Was this Camelot? Excavations at Cadbury Castle 1966-70” by Leslie Alcock.“The Discovery of King Arthur” by Geoffrey Ashe“Pendragon, the definitive account of the origins of Arthur” by Steve Blake and Scott Lloyd.Before these latest purchases I’ve been reading six books…three of which are poetry. I don’t have time to read what I already have, so, of course, I bought four more! ☺☺A day on the shore with a friend and a granddaughter. It doesn’t get any more special than that!
My grandson, Joe, is home for the month of November. He graduated from Parris Island on Nov. 5th. We are having Thanksgiving dinner at the local firehouse to accommodate all the family members. That’s going to be some Thanksgiving dinner!
