Drizzle

We had so much rain today! Hooray! It's still raining, actually.
This afternoon shoved me around a lot, from place to place, and I only accomplished some of what needed to be done, but sometimes it's good to be busy. At least that's what I'm trying to tell myself today.
There was gardening to be done, children to pick up at clubs, dinner to be made, a grocery store errand and a hair color purchase (it's been too long...my grays have grown out at least a half-inch on top!). Emma and I left early for ballet and dodged the torrent as we headed toward Hancock's for some patterns and fabric goodies. They're having a good sale and Emma has to dress like a fairy for an oral book report. Obviously that means I have to make her a fairy dress and obviously, that calls for a trip to the fabric store, yes? So that's what we did. We dashed in and out of the store and dashed into ballet where I

just sat


and knitted.

And that was quite wonderful. Knitting has fallen a bit by the wayside in the crush of end-of-school-year schedules. Not entirely, but I'd say it's been several days at least since I had a chunk of knitting time.
I had beautiful thoughts throughout the day that were going to be turned into a post. They have all evaporated. I know there were deep and lovely things about the beauty of daily life, I just can't remember what they were.
What I will do is update my project progress bars and leave you for now. Perhaps tomorrow will bring time to mull over dreams and plans and the changing landscape of my inner life. The rest of tonight shall be spent listening to the rain falling in the dark, cascading over my porch steps and soaking my garden.

Daily Bliss: laughing out loud at sitcoms with my honey
Morning Tune: bonus! two songs today! Young Bride (Midlake) again and 17 (Kings of Leon)

PS: I need help naming that song footer that I decided to start including...Subconscious Soundtrack? Dream Tunes? I'm looking for just a couple of words (or a few words) to indicate that they are songs I do not pick, that I just wake up singing and don't know why :) All suggestions are welcome!

Just A Friday

I wore my beautiful new dress today, since it was the Vernal Equinox and all. My dress and I had plans.
My friend at work, Katelyn, has never been in Florida while the orange trees are blooming. In my estimation, there is no better time in the world than that for a picnic. So, I brought all my picnic best in a basket, packed up my picnic quilt, and we headed out in the back of our offices to spread out our lunch.

See Katelyn's cute toes? We had fresh strawberries, sesame seed flatbread, a little goat cheese (mostly not for me, though), a colorful salad that Katelyn made with cilantro, black beans, couscous and red peppers, and some iced tea with lemons. A nicer lunch hour has seldom been enjoyed.
Something about those trees, frothy with blossoms, and the smell of it all makes me want to just tear off all my

shoes

and run out to play.

But my beautiful dress and I had to face the rest of what Friday afternoons bring to us. Namely, endless shuttling of children from place to place.
We had to get some gas and pick up a birthday present for a friend of Andrew's. Then we had to head home and grab all (!) of our instruments and music, pack Andrew's sleepover stuff and get the heck out of Dodge. We have to go to the other end of town to get to the music studio and the traffic is just ugly at that time of day. But we made it on time (this week). Usually, I knit during this hour. But today, I just wanted to be still and aware of my surroundings.

We hadn't any tape for the present-wrapping, so we had to borrow from the desk of the music studio.

Emma has only one lesson, while Andrew has two. She likes to read the books they have in the lobby of the studio once her lesson is done.

And I just sat there. For a whole hour. Just listening and being still.

We did enjoy our traditional birds' nest breakfast for the first day of spring and once we made it home we potted a few more of our upside-down tomatoes. I promise some big photos of the whole thing once we've got everything upside-down-and-running. I think it's going to be great. Unless I kill all the plants.

DAILY BLISS: major compliments on the natural ability of my son - his teacher really thinks he's got something