Hopeful Signs

Quote for today: We need to observe what is happening while not being absorbed by it.

Today was another working day. We finished the trim around the ceiling in the living room/kitchen area. The main purpose of that was to clear off a pile of boards in front of the sliding doors. We're freeing up floor space to start putting down the floor tomorrow. We both think that the wood flooring will match very nicely with the ceramic 'slate look' floor. That's always nice, figuring out that for all our dumbing around, we seem to be doing okay for rank amateurs. 

We are both excited about our work tomorrow. 

Sounds stupid, but we spent quite a bit of time choosing our grout color. We wound up ordering it because the store did not have what we finally settled on. But, it was a good match.

We putzed around most of the afternoon cutting boards and hanging boards and then studying the floor and then moving stuff out of our way in preparation for tomorrow. 

We knocked off a bit early. I needed to pick up some produce from the grocery store. I've been going great guns on the salad lately, and have a huge one for supper. We weren't quite sure when the big storm was supposed to hit, so we knocked off at 2-ish. 

Something that is interesting is that the deer were everywhere, along the road, up on the banks. Tim said, "They know the weather's going to get bad. They are feeding before it hits." Interesting to me that animals seem to know. 

Well...except for the starlings. They're back from where ever they go for winter. When we got home, our big maple trees were filled with birds, noisy and flittering about. Just in time for the storm. But it is a hopeful sign, isn't it? 

Once again, I must bring up Boud over at Field and Fen (fieldfen.blogspot.com). I admire her. She does a good job of finding a balance in all of this. She creates, she reacts, she interacts. She always gives an idea of something we can do, which I like. 

We are all trying for balance. We are all looking for a bit of peace within the chaos. The fact is that we will. We'll find our footing. It will   It may not feel as if we are doing anything, but...

I will admit to being very concerned about the concessions we have received from Russia through Belarus. I just don't think that they would have given us any concessions without some sort of promises made. The fact that Ukraine was not involved in the discussion is not a good sign. 

But...

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I forgot to show you my great find from Saturday. We always stop in at the Goodwill, when I am driving for the Amish. It was 50% off everything in the store, something that I'd forgotten, but nobody else seemed to. People were standing in line at the door. Mattie and Iva were not sure they wanted to get out of the car. But...we did. 

I found this light for the Wayne St rehab. It was in an opened box, tucked way under a rack of clothes. I almost missed it. It is new.  All the pieces were wrapped in their original plastic. The interior box that contained the glass shade had never been opened. $7.50, folks. I was pleased. 

So was Tim.