I grabbed the camera and snapped a quick photo of the cubby. I loved the way the light was creating shadows behind the egg cups. Maybe that’s happened before, but I’ve never noticed it.
Yesterday ended up being very windy – will it never stop? – so I worked outside for only a short while. Trying to get anything done was exhausting, and my allergies were on overdrive. Very frustrating. Even Don, who loves wind, said that after three days of it, he was done. Today is much calmer, thank goodness, so I’m going to try again. I need to rake the leaves out of the chicken wire fence garden and mow the grass in that same area. It’s going to rain tomorrow.
Christopher and Jenny are back at it this morning. Just like yesterday, I heard one of them sing, looked out the window and there he/she was, standing in front of the trailer. By the way, Christopher is named after the famous architect, Sir Christopher Wren, who designed St. Paul’s Cathedral, among other famous buildings in London. It’s one of my favorite churches, I might add. Jenny is a traditional nickname for wrens, especially in Great Britain and Europe, hence “Jenny Wren.”
Today is the seventh anniversary of my mom’s passing. It seems to be hitting me particularly hard this year. I can’t believe it’s been 7 years and I really miss my mom. Don does, too. My mom had a lovely little habit of calling our respective spouses when she knew one of us was away. She loved having a long conversation, just the two of them. I would be away somewhere coaching and Don would say, “I had a great conversation with your Mom today.”
Anyway. I didn’t respond to comments yesterday because I was feeling under the weather after my battle with the wind. Sorry about that. And now I have to help Don with an audition self-tape that has to be in today. We did another one just two days ago. Self-taping is definitely going to be the norm going forward. It was already happening before the pandemic, but it’s really taken off. For us, it’s invaluable. No bus trip to the city. No expensive bus ticket. Traveling to an audition ends of taking up a whole day. Now? We just set up, I read the other lines in the scene, and when Don is happy with it, he sends it in. Easy peasy. It works for television and film rather nicely.
After that, I’m headed outside.
Stay safe.
Happy Saturday.
hope you are feeling better by now and that don’s audition goes well. glad you two can work on it together, that auditions can be handled that way and are happening at all.
thanks for the background on the wrens’ names.
the light and egg cup shadows are beautiful! every time i see the egg cups, i get glad for you that you have them (including the complete set of snow white and the seven dwarfs) and that perfect cupboard.
hope the yardwork goes well and you have a good day.
usual saturday here and i am grateful for that. after a slow start, i get some things done and the best part is spending more time with members of my family (albeit socially-distanced).
happy saturday and stay safe!
kathy in iowa
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want to say that especially on a day like this anniversary, i hope you take it easy and treat yourself to something you want. you can’t hug each other in the same way right now or hear her voice on the other end of the phone right now, but remember all the love and good times and that you and your mother and all loved ones are still and always together.
hugs and prayers …
kathy in iowa
Thank you for your kind words, Kathy.
Stay safe.
Glad you can spend some time with your family, Kathy!
Stay safe!
What a great new way to audition. Wishing Don good luck!
I so miss my conversations with my mom and my mother-in-law. Hope you can remember those conversations with your mom, her gestures, her tone, or common phrases she might have used. I hope that brings you comfort.
We are off today to visit our close friends in Milwaukee. Hope the winds calm down for you…stay safe! ;)
I do. I’ll always remember them.
Thank you, Donna.
Stay safe!
I love the wren names…so appropriate.
Your mom sounds like she was a special lady. It’s so hard to lose our moms. I miss mine everyday. I had a funny “orphaned” feeling after both of my parents were gone.
Now I am one of the elders.
I hope you are feeling a bit better today. Stay safe
She was. I felt that way when my brother died (suddenly, I was the oldest child) and when my parents died. We also grieve the loss of our estranged sister. So now, it’s just Meredith and me.
Stay safe, Marilyn.
Love hearing about your Wrens! Chris and Jen, perfect. Its been a crazy week here with my allergies and Mom not feeling well. New normal for her I’m fearing. I hope you have a great weekend. Its raining here but that makes it a good day to curl up with a book. Hugs!
I’m sorry to hear your mom is not feeling well, Linda.
And allergies are a pain, aren’t they?
Stay safe.
Anniversaries can be very hard , can’t they?
This month, the 14th, marked the 48th anniversary of my mother’s death. She was only 48, so has now been gone for as long as she was here.
I have found this year unbearably sad. But that’s ok/ I miss her, she missed so much and as I get older ( at 56 I am 8 years older than she ever lived to be) I miss her in different ways.
I do hope that amongst the sadness there are wonderful memories too, like her phone calls to Don.
Enjoy the garden x
I’m so sorry you’ve been without your mother for so long, Siobhan. It never gets easier.
I have a lot of wonderful memories and lots of funny ones, too. That helps.
Stay safe.
I miss our Moms too. Seems like more every year.
Me too. How I would love to be with them again.
Much love, Kay.
I think we’ve all learned that there is no time limit on grief, of missing those we love. I’m glad you honored that time, Claudia. when we have those who leave such a special mark on our hearts, that is all we can do. Honor them and the lives they lived.
Thank you Jeanie.
Stay safe.