Category: domestic bliss
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my little corner of the world/these plants are unbelievably dead/this streetlamp, though charming, is never actually turned on/these are the antennas (anteni?) for just one four story building/this is just a few days worth of empties/the cleaning man comes on Fridays so now the stairs smell good/Ruby, on the other hand, does not smell so…
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Mom, Bert, Liz and I were going to go out on La Tishie Mae out this afternoon when the wind picked up something fierce. all we had really wanted to do was have a few beers in the harbor, so instead of risking our lives in wicked weather (F6-F7 winds, whatever that means), we went…
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..woken up by huge thunder and lightning rainstorm..big booms and crashes and pounding rain..gorgeous. Ruby is doing nice job of jogging back and forth to each bedroom, doing her duty to protect Mom and me. am reminded of a dark and stormy November camping trip night with surprisingly fearful Doberman….also had wierd dream about Dom…
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another fantastic surprise in the mail this morning..Aunt Anna sent me three of my grandfather's prints! what a very thoughtful thing to do. i've for some reason or another never had any of his work myself and not-so-secretly coveted my sister's, aunts', etc. (two of Peg's can be seen stairway of her London flat here).…
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Uncle Bert sailed La Tishie Mae back into Port Vaubon last night, at least temporarily, so we could go for our habitual dinner out at Da Cito…Liz (who lives just round the corner) joined us for some funny stories of Captaine Pat's sailing adventures, Uncle Bert's solitary survival in Baie des Anges and my cleaning…
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mom returns early tomorrow morning (9am)…pics and updates to come…
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after all of last week's social outings and frankly, a touch of laziness or heat-lethargy, i've been occupied with a number of paintings this week…four completed, two more in progress…but can't put them up of course until mom returns with the digital camera (please god let her not have dropped it in the sea)… speaking…
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with mom (and her dinners) gone, i’ve resorted to my previous single girl eating habits…must remember that five baby gherkins, a bit of cheddar, a half packet of stale crackers (with a dab of Nutella) and a sliced lemon do not make for a well-balanced meal. i’m not even going to get into the pancake…
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received two concurrent issues of The New Yorker magazine (thank you Grandma Mickey for the international subscription) this week..oh, yum! such a joy to savor each play review (never mind i won't be doing theatre nights in NYC any time soon), article, book review, bit o' fiction and cartoon. oh, and commentaries on life as…
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the handset on my landline telephone won't charge properly..seems any bump (aka Ruby) to the rickety table it sits on rocks it off the little charger knobbies…so, have had a number of international phone calls to friends back home interrupted by regular 'low battery' bleeps…made for some interesting converstions: "I might get a job, this…
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