Better brace UP for my HAPPIEST and maple-SAPPIEST post EVER ...
I got back HOME just in time to watch the SUN set on the MOUNTAIN through the western WINDOW ... And my HEART filled with so much WARMTH that it melted the ICICLES hanging from the ROOF and turned the HORIZON on FIRE ...
Ah ah ah ! YES !
Me and my good OLD self are slowly BUT surely returning to my VERY own and personal NORMALCY !
Getting READY for EASTER ... if ONLY in spirit ...
Due to ALL that is happening right NOW,, we have decided to POSTpone our FAMILY reunion until MOTHERS Day this year ... The internet AND the electricity has been FIXED and my PAPA is doing GRRRREAT following his second OPEN-HEART surgery ...
I SHOULD be back HOME on SUNDAY, just in time to FRENCH-kiss the Easter BUNNY !
This year, WINTER is a real JERK ...
ENOUGH with the HOSPITAL and the MEDICAL clinic, the VET and the PHARMACIST, the ELECTRICIAN and the PLUMBER, the INTERNET server and the CAR repair SHOP ... ENOUGH with the COLD, the ICE and the SNOW ...
Give me a couple more DAYS and I will be BACK to my NORMAL cheery and bright and joyful SELF ... That is IF they fix my MAUDITE internet connection and I get a BREAK from family HEALTH problems !
I am DETERMINED to resurect on EASTER day !
Stay TUNED !
I miss my FB, blogging and IG friends, I miss working in my STUDIO and I can NOT wait to GARDEN !
Boing ! Boing ! BOING !
Happy SPRING to you ALL my friends !
Still NO internet, SOME electricity, a FOOT of water in our FLOODED basement due to FROZEN pipes and my PAPA is back at the HOSPITAL for a little TUNE-up ...
But ALL will be BETTER now that SPRING has sprung ! I will be BACK home for good on FRIDAY or SATURDAY and wil reply to messages, requests AND comments when I DO !
Enjoy this SPECIAL day !
Boing ! Boing ! BOING !
NO internet, NO electricity but TONS of SNOW !
ALMOST 3 feet of WHITE stuff fell on the MOUTAIN since yesterday morning with SERIOUS angry wind ... Our INTERNET satelitte DISH flew to the GROUND and broke in pieces and we have been WITHOUT power ALL day today due to electrical wires DOWN as well in the neighborhood ...
But we are all SAFE and WARM, with a built-tough ROOF over our head, a ROARING fire in the wood stove, plenty of FOOD to eat and BOOKS to read and a strong HOPE that SPRING is really REALLY just around the CORNER ...
EARLY this morning, the WINTER-beast-that-just-WON'T-quit, opened its BIG mouth, stuck out its ALIEN-like-dripping-wet icy FANGS and CHEWED our house, EAST windows and walls FIRST ...
I then gathered my COURAGE to face the ENNEMY ...
And with one LONG swipe of my SNOW shovel, I broke ALL its TEETH ... which are now all PILED up in a HILL, looking like SHED crystal UNICORN horns ...
Yesterday the weather got mild ENOUGH to spend time in my garden DUNGEON ... RECORD HIGH of 60 degrees F ... NEVER seen before in this land of COLD and SNOWY and LONG winters ... DOOR and WINDOWS open ... I swept the mouse POOP, spider WEBS and dead FLIES accumulated during the PAST months ...
Entering it after that long felt like getting inside a GIANT time CAPSULE ... And the SMELL of my naturalist CABIN !
If I close my EYES, I get INSTANTLY transported to my GRAND-PARENTS's little SUMMER camp by the river when I was a KID ...
Where I would FISH with my GRAND-PAPA Paul for eels with a flashlight at night in a HAND-MADE dingy, EXPLODE ripe black walnuts with a wise-grip, DIG for soft water clams in the mud ... Where I would COLLAGE with my GRAND-MAMAN Gabrielle animal pictures clipped in magazines, add unknown SPECIMENS to my pressed-leaves BOOK, bake a cake while the current art project was DRYING on the kitchen table and read Enyd Blyton's MYSTERY BOOKS by the light of a candle while NATURE sang in strange voices through the moskito screens of the VERANDA ...
My OUTDOOR studio is my little place AWAY from home ... at HOME ...
