Hellooooooo Darklings,
I know, I know, it seems like I disappeared off the face of
the earth, and in a way I did but it was both from exhaustion, getting things
done on the house, and I was sort of “kidnapped”.
O.K. let me explain the “kidnapped” part, my dear brother
and sister-in-law and my oldest nephew and my niece Coralline said I had to get
out of the house, the leg in the cast was keeping me house bound, so with Betty
house sitting during the day and Doyle house sitting at night, I was whisked
away to some desert place, don’t ask me the name I don’t remember and for three
night’s straight we stayed up late and watched the Meteor shower called the Pelidies
or something like that.
Drinking coffee or hot chocolate because it does get chilly,
there were astronomers there one or two professional and a few amateurs and a
few meteor shower watchers. It was an Amazing sight, at one point there
were so many they were like fireflies and a few big ones which made folks go “Aaaaaaa”.
And something else as well, Coralline met a very nice young
man, name is William, loves the stars and plans to make some aspect of
astronomy his vocation, he’s 15, well I saw him kiss her on her cheek and she kissed
him on his cheek the last night of Meteor watching, he and his folks were
leaving early in the morning going back to Idaho. And he walked her back to my brother’s RV,
they were all shy and such. I did hear
her say she prefers to writing letters as oppose to e-mails so they exchanged
mailing addresses.
I’m presuming it will last a few months and then taper off. But I do have to admit it was very romantic
under the stars.
The twins stayed with their other uncle my sister in law’s
brother as they and their cousins had soccer matches the same weekend. Well to each their own.
But I was also very busy getting the final work done on the
house, the stain glass windows were re-leaded, and protective windows put over
them to prevent lead rot. All the wood
rotted banisters have been replaced with exact duplicates (minus the rot) steps
replaced, painted and now dry.
And the exhaustion, well trying to move around even with a
so called “walking cast” is not easy for someone my age, I was tiring quickly,
and trying to shower with a plastic bag over the cast well the gymnastics one
has to do. So by the time I think of writing on my blog,
I’m taking a nap with the dynamic duo, the twins of terror, the guardians of
the gates of hell, Belladonna and Wiener Dog!!!
Brian and Doyle have been making sure they get their walks,
but from the way things are going, I am not going to be able to do my Fall Wine
trip like I had planned. Pooh!!
But I have had friends and relatives come and visit, always
making sure it’s a good time to drop over to visit, Betty has been my Charon and unless they do
the proper observations she will not allow them to set foot into the
house----that being about calling first to see if I can have visitors.
I can’t cook, so between Betty and my sister and my
sister-in-law they have been making sure I am fed, but I so want to go to the
gym, and exercise a little, so it’s been mostly from the waist up, but I need
to do it from the waist down, and there are not many exercises I can do with my
leg in a cast.
But my Doctor is going to see about doing a new lighter cast
for me. Soon I hope, I want this thing,
this parasite off of me before Thanksgiving or before Christmas at least.
But all is not lost,
I have my latest Vogue and Instyle magazine and I am going to have the
fun of perusing them for ideas, already the stores are out with their Halloween
decorations, Granden Road has sent me their latest catalog, Spirit has
wonderful things available, Atomx has more image projections out, to help make
things as a real haunted house and I’m hunting for bargains on Candy.
And Betty was able to find a Nail Salon that can do a
pedicure working around the cast, so I’ve been getting my Mani-Pedi’s.
My brother and sister in law have been doing a long, long
trip, going to Utah and visiting several
of their national parks, stopping off at Crater Lake, they were at Lake
Berryessa but had to bail out quickly because of the wild fire, and instead
went to Crescent City and stayed in an RV Park on or near the beach up
there. Both my brother and sister in law took 2 months off for this vacation.
Both Christopher and Coralline hated the idea of going back
to school they felt they learned more seeing the sights, but well they had to, Coralline has started
her first year in High School and Chris his 2nd year, the twins are
now in the 7th or is it 8th grade and they love
soccer. I’m planning to take Coralline
and Chris to see the Ballet most likely Cinderella, I think the presentation of
Frankenstein might be too dark for them, well maybe for Coralline.
Sis has been busy as well with her clients, her house is
almost done, just a room or two to finish,
and it seems that Brian is a permanent, paying house guest at her home,
which I think is fine for her.
Doyle is thinking of lessening his work load, only handling
just a few cases at a time. He wants to
visit his family more often now, especially since his grandchildren are at the “I
know that’s grandpa” stage. And I don’t
blame him, family is so important.
And I am blessed to have a wonderful family. Included the two 4-legged ones that are now
napping next to me as I write.
Well Sis says dinner is ready, there is really nothing on
Television tonight, I didn’t even bother to watch the Olympics, but I can
hardly wait for the new Fall season of T.V. shows, I’m afraid “Sleepy Hallow”
is gone, but there are some new ones that have my interest, and Lucifer is
coming back and a new show “The Exorcist” Doyle asked me if there is the possibility
of a “cross-over” story line. I laughed
at that remark.
And maybe next year I can do my Fall Wine trip.
Must go or dinner will get cold.
Later Darklings.
