~ tapestry weaving class on Friday......wow, what a lot to learn! Three hours and counting and that was just setting up the loom! Left a bit early as hour four would have had my brains leaking out my ears.
~ a picnic on Lake Washington solves everything. We set up our chairs by the shore to watch eagles flying, floaty planes rumble up into the sky, boats-sail or motor away, our lunches disappear and our books get read, the sun sparkles on the water even after we close our eyes.
~ excavating studio box by box, goodwill, trash, recycle, save (repeat), goodwill, trash, recycle, save (repeat), goodwill, trash, recycle, save (repeat), goodwill, trash, recycle, save (repeat)
~ I have a half an apple pie to eat, leftover from yesterday's Thanksgiving dinner. Thankful that life is good and that we will have turkey sandwiches for dinner tonight.
~ folding my son's laundry is a guilty pleasure...ssshhhhhhh.
~ I find a picture of an old hotel room in Virginia City, NE (home of the newspaper that Mark Twain wrote, Territorial Enterprise)... I remember it was hot and dry there during the day, Ray was playing piano at the Bucket of Blood saloon and I roamed the nearby cemetery....

a welcome event at the end of the day was to have a mint julep at the bar across the road. hmmmm...can't think of the name of it. Crystal Bar?...someone who looked like "Uncle Billy" from IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE was the owner and bartender. ...my they were delicious! Oh, here it is as I remember it all atwinkle with sun setting through the crystal lamps and glasses, bouncing off the mirrors.

 

Anyway, back to the hotel room photo that I must have taken,  black shadows and sun-washed away lace curtain, frilled glass lamp, the toothed top of a dark radiator against the white window sill...and, oh dear, there is a baby bottle on the sink shelf so Johnny must have been with us and it was years later at another hotel in a different historic hotel.... maybe Truckee? Fun to travel memory's crooked path. Sometimes you get a twofer!

~ Dogsitting a Yorky poo and realizing owmiemdiefnrufnurf, wow, I must be tired and need to go to bed now! and wake up (always a good idea) and see what is in store tomorrow!