Three gratitudes
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chelidon1. Beamish Boy gathering us all in the living room for an inflatable-guitar Karaoke version of Weird Al's "Smells Like Teen Spirit." He put up signs announcing it this morning, arranged the chairs to make a "stage" and gave us all backstage passes (hey, I's a GROOPIE!) He's a total nut, and I don't know *where* he gets this musical/drama/performing thing from, I swear...
Concert Pic 1
Concert Pic 2
2. Ravishing Partner reading to me Friday night as I fell asleep, from the first book in her favorite childhood series, Children of Green Knowe. Reading to or being read to by one's loves is one of my favorite occasional delights.
3. Beautiful clear cold nights with so many stars -- one of my favorite things about leaving all the light pollution behind. Oh, and old news, but we had an incredible view of the eclipse. One of the planned Yule or b-day prezzies for next year will be a good basic telescope for my Beamish Boy, he's old enough now, and hey, that way I get to play with it too!
Oh, and the 3 1/2th gratitude -- despite a storm warning for last night and today promising 8-12 inches of snow, we got only 4" or so, which is just fine. In this all-time record snowfall year, we are really fine with what we already have, thanks. The snow pile behind the back deck is now up to the level of the deck, so that's oh, what, 18' or so?
But, well, the skiing is fabulous, and some of the household and friends are heading out to a big outdoor snowshoe/bonfire/music/food event in the next town over tonight, where you snowshoe from fire to fire, get yummy warm food and sing and do music with your neighbors. I do adore New England. I sometimes wonder if I would go back to Hawaii if I won the lottery or some such, and you know, I don't think I would. Might get a little beach house on Kauai for the month of February, though ;>
Concert Pic 1
Concert Pic 2
2. Ravishing Partner reading to me Friday night as I fell asleep, from the first book in her favorite childhood series, Children of Green Knowe. Reading to or being read to by one's loves is one of my favorite occasional delights.
3. Beautiful clear cold nights with so many stars -- one of my favorite things about leaving all the light pollution behind. Oh, and old news, but we had an incredible view of the eclipse. One of the planned Yule or b-day prezzies for next year will be a good basic telescope for my Beamish Boy, he's old enough now, and hey, that way I get to play with it too!
Oh, and the 3 1/2th gratitude -- despite a storm warning for last night and today promising 8-12 inches of snow, we got only 4" or so, which is just fine. In this all-time record snowfall year, we are really fine with what we already have, thanks. The snow pile behind the back deck is now up to the level of the deck, so that's oh, what, 18' or so?
But, well, the skiing is fabulous, and some of the household and friends are heading out to a big outdoor snowshoe/bonfire/music/food event in the next town over tonight, where you snowshoe from fire to fire, get yummy warm food and sing and do music with your neighbors. I do adore New England. I sometimes wonder if I would go back to Hawaii if I won the lottery or some such, and you know, I don't think I would. Might get a little beach house on Kauai for the month of February, though ;>
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Love the concert story
Date: 2008-03-02 06:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-03-05 09:17 am (UTC)I havn't read children of green knowe for years - must re-find it. The BBC did do a fairly good series of it years back - maybe in the '80's wonder if that's still around.