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Zinnias and Work

September 4, 2021 at 9:33 am by Claudia

Sunny, but with a golden quality to the light that tells me autumn is coming.

I’ve had to reschedule my coaching sessions at the last minute twice this week as the actor is filming a series in England and the filming has gone past the time originally scheduled. We’re going to work tomorrow on his day off. (Not his fault, of course!)

I also was contacted by the next Anastasia  tour – this one is non-union, as it’s the second national tour – and we’re trying to schedule some days where I come in and work with the actors. All of this conveniently falls in late September – mid October, before I start work on the movie. I am grateful for the opportunity to be the main source of income for the next few months. Really, really grateful.

As you might imagine, our lawn throughout the property is very overgrown because of all the rain. Today, we’ll start to tackle that. I’ve been wearing a mask when I mow because my allergies are so bad this year. I don’t know if it helps, but I do it anyway. Anyway, we have our work cut out for us this weekend.

Hopefully, I’ll get some time to paint. Fingers crossed.

Sad to see summer ending, but ready for fall.

Hope all is well with you.

Stay safe.

Happy Saturday.

 

Filed Under: Anastasia, flowers, garden 34 Comments

Finally Relaxing

August 27, 2021 at 9:54 am by Claudia

From our foggy, dewy, soon-to-be-unbearably-humid garden. One more day of this crap and then we’ll have some relief.

This may be my favorite of the many zinnias blooming in the garden.

Also seen this morning, exiting after having flown into the center of a morning glory:

Love seeing the pollen on his legs.

I’m going to try to weed whack this morning before it gets too hot. Don is going to do a bit of mowing.

I’m just now relaxing after a very stressful and packed two weeks. It feels good. I officially started one-on-one coaching for the movie with a session yesterday afternoon.

I can now attend to some things around here – I haven’t painted in about 3 weeks due to a combination of things; needing a break, the whole Beacon Hill dollhouse trip, the initial email from Jim and then two weeks of wondering if I would get the job, discovering that the Beacon Hill smells musty, researching what to do about it and working on that when I wasn’t working on my interview for the movie job. And life.

Hopefully, I’ll get back to painting tomorrow when the temperature drops and the excess humidity leaves. Once again, we have a heat advisory today. August has been hellish, weather-wise.

Drum roll: yes, I’m going to say it now. I’m looking forward to Fall. Maybe August is what it is in order to have our bodies and minds accept and even welcome the seasonal change. It sure is this year.

Getting close to finishing The Woman in Blue  by Elly Griffiths. I have the next one in the series in my TBR pile. I find that even though I have lots of other books I want to start, I end up choosing the next Griffiths because I’m hooked.

Stay safe.

Happy Friday.

Filed Under: bees, books, flowers 14 Comments

Friday

August 20, 2021 at 9:14 am by Claudia

We made a quick stop at Trader Joe’s on our way back from Pennsylvania. Don wanted to grab a few things and I jumped at the chance to buy some inexpensive flowers.

It’s been a very tiring week. Very. Lots going on. I’m really looking forward to kicking back a bit. Though I do have to grab a few rain-free hours this morning to do some mowing. It rained yesterday and was incredibly humid. It’s going to rain and storm this afternoon, tomorrow, and Sunday – due, in part, to the hurricane moving up the east coast. Oh, joy. Another hurricane.

Anyway, I’m tired. Don is tired. We just need to hang out for a couple of days and I guess that’s guaranteed given the weather headed our way.

I didn’t do anything more with the Beacon Hill yesterday. Still trying to fix some things or at least, figure out how  to fix them. I’ve looked at a lot of other finished Beacon Hills and realize that the foundation under the bay windows and kitchen windows is missing. So I’ve downloaded the instructions and I’m going to try to figure out the directions for those areas of the house and see if I can duplicate them with some wood or board. Then there’s the porch, which is glued in so well that I’m afraid I’ll break something if I try to take it apart. That’s something I’ll start to address this weekend. And I just might go to Lowe’s and buy some primer. Slapping on some paint will be very therapeutic.

How can it be almost the end of August? I swear, time moves so quickly!

Stay safe.

Happy Friday.

Filed Under: dollhouse, flowers 18 Comments

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