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September 18, 2005

and furthermore,

Saturday night I went a party and got home late and a little tipsy, and happy, and Herself was still up waiting for me.

I slept until almost 8:00, got up and read the Sunday paper and drank coffee with Spike. I put a load of laundry into the washer, got dressed and went to the gym. I came home from the gym, changed, put clothes into the dryer and another load into the washer. I made and ate breakfast, cleaned up the kitchen from the night before, turned on the dishwasher.

I raked the front yard, swept the back decks, and with Moo cut down the holly bushes next to his bedroom window. I raked the back yard and put the leaves--last year's--into bags.

Herself and I went to Lowe's and got some mulch, then we went grocery shopping. When we came home she went out to play and I unloaded the groceries, put the mulch down in the bare spot the holly bushes had left. I folded the clothes and put more into the dryer.

Then I sat on the back deck in the shade, called friends, and read until Moo came home at 6:00 and it was time to make dinner.

It was a beautiful day--just one more in a series of beautiful days that have made up this beautiful summer; the last day of a pretty good weekend and I was busy, and happy to be busy, and grateful that Herself had a friend to play with and I had a couple of hours to myself. I like the book I'm reading, it makes me laugh, and the late afternoon sun made me sleepy and it was quiet out--just the birds and the neighbors' air conditioners for background music. And while I sat in the sun, looking at the lake and the trees, I waited for the phone to ring. In spite of myself, and in spite of knowing that it wouldn't, I waited for the phone to ring. There's the respect that makes calamity out of so long life.

Posted by JudyLa at 11:30 PM | Comments (0)