If you can call blogging from my bed as 'gearing up'! The sun has just now begun poking through while the wind continues whipping the palm trees outside my windows. Having opened my sliding doors, a breeze is moving through my rooms as I write. One project to be tackled today will be doing some dusting in the other rooms but now that I think about it, this might not be the very best idea. The workers will be here either midday Monday or on Tuesday and undo the dust removal planned for today. I just gave myself an excuse for not doing it---or doing it as thoroughly as I had intended.
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Listening now to an interview of a female golfer who introduced her own wine label in support of breast cancer research, on Fox and Friends. The inevitable questions about Tiger Woods came up and she said she wishes him the best. She knows this is a rough time for him, having lost his family, getting a divorce...Excuse me, but he did NOT lose his family, he sacrificed the family for his own sinful pleasures. Treatment, my foot! He simply got too big for his britches and that is the long and short of it. Certainly his fellow golfer is not going to take any other stand than saying she hopes things work out for him but...
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Back to the day---due to the winds, sailboats are having a good time, and several already moved through the water since I got up. The other night I heard much helicopter traffic outside, seemingly lower than usual and could see police lights on boats closer to the bridge. Since I do not get the local paper or watch local news, I have not heard what, if anything, was happening. Hopefully not a boat accident with people in the water or something else equally horrible occurred. Yesterday afternoon my upstairs neighbor called again to report the manatees were very close to the building. Sure enough---there was Clarence and Clarise resting in the shallows, and Jessica thought she saw a baby manatee as well. The reason I did not spot them myself was my big computer desk is located in the 'back' bedroom, away from my view. It has its blessings, being away from the windows, as it seems I work more quickly on whatever is in front of me, so that I can move back into the light!
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Twila was out and about yesterday showing one of her rental homes and we decided to meet for lunch at one of our favorite places. Miller's Ale House, next door to Carrabba's serves great 'comfort' foods besides their full menu but Twila and I usually share an order of the loaded fries, and we added chicken fingers in an attempt to assuage our guilt. Twila took home about half the order of fries, covered in cheese and bacon pieces, plus two of the four chicken tenders. I think we talked more than we ate! It was GREAT to catch up, it has been too long...
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As you might guess, since the sun has been gone, the temperatures have come down correspondingly. At this moment, it is 'only' 80 above zero out there, and I will suppose the wind is keeping it cooler here. I hate to waste the sunshine but if the air is not very warm...Oh, I know you folks who are living in the north would not consider 80 to be cool, the same way I would not consider 60 to be warm. Guess I won't be burning my feet on the promenade today! Hopefully it will not rain for at least the next four hours as there is an old-fashioned July 4th picnic on the 3rd at the Town Hall, sponsored by the Tea Party. I should get dressed and head over there but fear that the parking will be hard to come by.
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When Justin was here the other night, he asked me if I had ordered my area rug yet. Area rug? It never occurred to me to put down a rug in this room after tearing the carpet up. My intent is to keep the dust down in here and think laying a rug might add the problem back in. Hmmm....Justin feels that acoustically I would want the rug and feels I will not be happy with the starkness of the room. That might be true, about the starkness, but I feel that the bed would be sufficient to absorb the sound. I DO have problems about having the TV on too loudly as my hearing is quite acute and wonder if not having carpet on the floor will affect that. Last Sunday I talked with some folks around the pool and one man told me about his sister finding a very nice rug at Wal*Mart for about $30. I had seen some on-line for closer to $200 so finding something between those two prices to add color to an already colorful room shall be my goal!
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The other day I got a box out of my mailbox just as Jessica and the baby were heading upstairs. She said, "Oooh, something from Amazon....More boring books?" Of course, I laughed, because she had asked me Sunday in the shelter of the cabana about what books I was reading. She had borrowed mine about Julia Child, "My Life in France". Jessica was not blown away with my recent reads, wrinkled her pretty little nose at my subject matter. I told her I had finished The Overton Window just the night before and had picked up again the book about the Lutheran hymn writer and musician, Kurt Eggert. The look on her face was priceless. Guess that is not her type of summer reading! She told me about a book she is reading, perhaps an octopus with two heads, or something like that. Fiction reading is more her cup of tea.
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In order to not be tempted, I left the newest books stacked in the kitchen for now. The new Larry Schweikart book is one of them, plus "The Council of Dads" and one by John Kasich called "Every Other Monday" written about his 20 years taking part in a Bible study. The last two will be quicker reading than the history book and there is really no reason to be in a rush with reading any of them. I am current on my goal set at the New Year to read a book a month. I think I need to get some reading glasses, though, as my eyes get awfully tired these days....perhaps they are bored, too?
