Today I made two trips to the dump, mowed the front lawn, used the weed eater to clean up edges, weeded and watered. Because my neighbour is on the garden tour in Kelowna and dozens of people were parking on our block and walking past my house, I had an expiation of guilt over the condition on my yard. At least the roses were magnificently showy. Too bad the lawn is partially dead due to the neglect of our flying off to Europe.
I cleared a great deal of the back yard, got part of the home studio floor cleared and laundry complete. Cameron worked away on the bathroom. My role seems to be to find the hiding tool, run to the hard ware store, fix some uninspired, badly prepared meals and keep him supplied with coffee.
I am also trying to prepare some donations for fund raisers for the Kamloops Art Gallery and the Penticton Art Gallery. More teaching opportunities are coming in and I want to keep those dates straight.
After I cleaned the floor…again!! Well the urge to go have a bath was strong. Paint splattered clothes and hair came off. The dark ring in the tub from the last ablution had to be scrubbed out. I washed my hair, put on the tissue thin dress I brought back from Vienna and lay on the deck under the stars. Watching the wind knead the clouds into varying shapes, listening to the trees catching the breezes and eating cherries was such a beautiful time after the day’s relentless activities, that I thought about how these moments are the ones that really “count” not the days we are counting down.