Mockingbird Hill Cottage

The smaller Rose of Sharon bush has started to bloom. I always forget that the color is deeper on these flowers. So pretty!

We had a very hot and uncomfortable weekend. But today is much cooler and that is very, very welcome.

This will be brief. I’ve been working hard all weekend. Today we have to shop – food for Don, who won’t have a car this week – and food for me to take to NJ. I’ve made lists of things to pack. It’s shocking how much I have to take for 6 days, but it is what it is. And I have to show Don where and how to water while I’m gone.

After years and years of going out of town to work, the appeal of it all is gone. We don’t want to be away from each other. But, if it means work, we do it. So that’s what I’m doing this week. Hopefully, Don will get a chance to do the same thing soon.

This is very short, but I have a lot to do. Thanks for all the supportive comments on my last post. You are the best,

Stay safe.

Happy Monday.

I’m rather edgy this morning so I’ll keep this short. I finished most of my work yesterday, so I’m going to try to take it easy this weekend.

I haven’t worked in so long that my level of confidence is low. I know that I’m good at what I do, but I’m officially older than anyone else in the company and there have been no offers for over a year and a half, so that lack of confidence is real.

And there are lists to be made, questions still to be answered about the mechanics of this whole thing, and all of it is too much for a person who loves being home with her husband in her ‘safe place.’ I don’t want to be away from Don but of course I have to be. He doesn’t like it either. I used to be fairly cool with it all because going away to work happened fairly often. But now I’m out of practice. And my life here with Don is more important than ever.

Once I’m there and working, it will be better. I  will be better.

And, of course, I know I’m lucky to have this job and I am very grateful. It goes without saying, but I’m saying it anyway.

I have some chores to do around the house today and that should keep me occupied.

This is brief, I know, but it’s to the point!

Stay safe.

Happy Saturday.

 

A photo I took the other day just to show you how huge the limelight hydrangea is! Soon it will be taller than the porch roof. (That’s where the catbirds had their nest.)

It does make a statement, doesn’t it?

That’s the front lawn after I went crazy and mowed it all – Don helped a little, but it was mostly me. I also mowed the secret garden because it was as dry as I’ve ever seen it – usually it’s so wet that any attempt to mow it is a messy and yucky experience. That dryness tells you how little rain we’ve had this second half of summer. We had a brief thunderstorm the other day, but really, no impact whatsoever. The rivers are quite low. This is exactly what happened last summer.

I’m working on the dialect/script and finishing off our deductions. I’d like to have the weekend free of anything other than being with Don and making a list of what to pack. I’ll be driving down to the theater in New Jersey on Tuesday. Wednesday is the first rehearsal. I’ll most likely be there through Sunday’s rehearsal and then I’ll drive home that night or Monday morning, depending on how late I’m at rehearsal.

Don will get instructions as to his ‘watering schedule.’ I will walk him through everything. And you can bet I’ll be checking in to make sure he’s doing it!

In the back and forth with the theater about lodging, etc., I noticed a sentence saying that some accommodations would have to be double occupancy. I immediately let them know that was not going to happen for me. And I used the age card with “I’m 72!” I clarified that I was not feeble or anything like that, but after doing this all over the country for 40+ years, I felt I had earned my own space, not shared with anyone. They were great about it. I’ll be an in apartment next week, and then, when I am there for two days at a time, I’ll be in a hotel. That’s fine.

That would have been a deal breaker. Very thankful it didn’t come to that.

Okay. Time to make the second cup of coffee and return to the script.

Stay safe.

Happy Friday.