Thursday, March 4, 2010

The boardwalk was begun; an old acquaintance has passed away...

Sadly, I found out that a woman who I knew through the Arthritis Foundation has passed away, a truly lovely person who became our Acquacize coordinator as well as a statuesque model for our fund raising fashion shows that I would put together. She was a beautiful woman who had never modeled before I asked her to, which was quite a surprise to me, since she was a natural. She was a retired nutritionist and was originally from New York, her nephew had been killed on 911 since he worked in one of the towers in a financial office in that profession. How she loved her family and many of them had moved down to Florida with her too. She passed away on January 12th suddenly at the age of seventy-two, and the person who wrote about it was told that is all they knew. I found out from the newsletter that I received today from a national organization I belong to called H2u but our chapter does everything on a local level. Good-bye dear good sweet A, you will be sorely missed.

Hubby started on the boardwalk today, eight foot garden ties, a dozen in all that will be tying the whole project together were around four bucks a piece. You see Hubby will be using the left over cedar fencing again for the cross decking and the reason for such a construction of this monumental passageway… so I can roll around the back yard, but of course! You see my walker or scooter according to the texture of the under ground soft or mushy low or high created an uneven terrain for me to maneuver the territory. This boardwalk will hopefully allow for me to go down to the dock without difficulty, and enjoy things I once had before like fishing perhaps, glaring at Otto the otter, dolphin, manatees, stingrays or mantas, or watching the sunset or whatever else I am so inclined to do. Won’t that be lovely? It has been well over a year since I could do any of that!

My new do has proven to be not difficult to manage it is basically a wash and dry type of cute cut!

I forgot to mention that yesterday on our errands I had one silly thing stuck in my mind that I wanted to free up my utensil drawer of clutter, and I thought the perfect way to do that is to take my stylishly useful stainless utensils that I had acquired over the years to put them perhaps in a flamboyantly colorful ceramic vase in the center of the stove.
And so as we went on our journey for necessities yesterday I would look for this somewhat obscure idea of mine. After traveling to approximately three shops that day I took one last look in the garden department of the home store where they did have quite a few not boring ceramic pots, but none were the right size or shape for what I felt was what I needed. Until I saw a brilliantly multi-colored one being sold for an indoor herb garden, but just below it in the same display was more in the color tones I was thinking of, but this one was for growing strawberries; it came with soil and seeds in a plastic bag within it, great I thought! Hubby can have the seeds and I could have the pot, a two-for!
So I easily removed the bag of soil and packet of seeds and scrubbed the pot in warm soapy water, dried it and enthusiastically installed my collection of stainless tools, which I put right in the middle of the stove! It looked just awful, too cluttered, and so guess what? I found the directions on planting the seeds in the pot and it now sits, planted with strawberries on my open bar to the kitchen, and doesn’t look half bad if I do say so myself!

I learned something folks, which is that, on occasion, what we dream or see in our heads, cannot always be realized and perhaps shouldn’t be.

On that educational note for me I will bid you all a pleasant good night and to all count those blessings and we will too!

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