This is a rental property. I just noticed looking at this picture I took Thursday morning that they have discreet tomato cages holding the daffodils up. Nice. There is a wide variety of flowers and things planted around this place showing the preferences of various tenants over the years. It also has an actual back yard, which is somewhat unusual in this neighborhood built up by immigrants and owned primarily over time by only a few families. The houses were built close together.
Speaking of immigrants and their perilous existence in our fair country, I was chuffed to hear the female head of the NASA recovery team mention after the successful splashdown for the Artemis project (and recovery of the four astronauts but still anxious about recovering the vehicle) that she was born in Columbia and came to the United States when she was 10 years old.
My father worked in the space program, and it was a feature of my upbringing. We saw in person one of the Apollo capsules after it returned to earth. So small!
As a dedicated introvert and basic creature comfort aficionado the fact that these four astronauts spent almost 10 days together with no privacy boggles my mind. If it wasn’t the science and stamina and good humor they all displayed that blew me away and made me call them true heroes, the fact that they all managed to get along so well was impressive.
We don’t see that very often these days.
We are not going to mention the small cowardly men wandering around the partially decimated White House in ill-fitting cheap shoes, no…
I am a big fan of the author Tana French and so I preordered her latest book The Keeper in audiobook format and listened to it this last week. She has this cadence when she is creating the dialogue between the rural Irish characters that sticks with me and I am filtering all the thoughts in my head through that.
Things get a bit dicey in the story, and I was worried for the main characters, but I stuck with it. And was richly rewarded. This is a highly recommend endorsement. It is helpful to read the first two books in the series I suspect but not totally necessary. It is not a light read though although there are funny bits. The New York Times reviewer said it also has a dog friendly affect.
One of the guys in our group worked on adaptations of the Star Wars books (as well as actually being in the movie E.T.) and I was talking to him last week about Project Hail Mary and he was saying the writing of that book was so bad that he barely got through it. I listened to the audiobook, and the voice actor redeemed it, and I still have Rocky’s triple, “Good, good, good,” stuck in my mind.
The columbines are flowering in the garden! They made it through another year. The ornamental cherries are fiercely blooming and getting their starter golden leaves in the rain this morning. The rhododendrons flowers are opening pink to white. The early iris are up and bright with purple in all those amazing shades. The whole world seems to be coming alive around us.
It happens so fast. One day the Dogwoods are just showing bud and the next day boom, abundant flowers all down the branches. I love the creamy off-white and green of the ones with that color scheme. The Honesty flowers in that remarkable dark purplish pink.
I am just beginning to be able to think around the corner of the next two and ½ months to the end of my two-year tenure as Treasurer and the transition to Bookkeeper, which is much more suited to my schedule and skill set.
Like when I retired from formal work, I am a person with plans.
I could feel them stirring yesterday. I still have a bunch of stuff to get through, but the transition is in sight. I can see it out there on the horizon.
It looks darn sweet.
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