I'm ready for a new word. A good word. I think stillness has seeped in to my soul. I know still.
I feel like 2017 actually did finish something. Most usually I shift my year end rumination session several days forward in January, more towards my birthday coming up. That's why feeling an end, even when you don't know the end to what yet, is note worthy to me. I do like endings for the very fact that they signal beginnings.
Five different guest beds, if indeed one's very own (adult) children might be considered guests, generates a lot of laundry! Hard freeze warnings blanket the area so those sheets and light quilts went right outside to cover our new landscape plants. Figuring out the skeleton plan for this house's landscape was one of the very fun things I got to do last year. In the Spring I'll dive in to fleshing the beds out a bit. Right now we are working on drainage issues in this yard which have compounded over the years. I think the "fill" from the hole of the pool was heaped around the yard in a haphazard manner. Totally guessing. Water events invariably pool at the back corner of the house. My husband, a CE, has it all figured out and well on the way to handled. I love working on our home. One of the kids gave us light fixtures for our foyer. There is a sheet rock patch on the top of L's to do list and then we can put up the new lights. It's a lot of fun to see the house taking shape.
Today the tree came down. Tomorrow I'll renest the baubles in their own little boxes. That other brass star says JOY.
These light strings are going to the backyard trees.. I am going to run them from the ground all the way up the truck and out the branches, not wrapped, linear, all thirteen lines of them will twinkle from the trees that shade the back patio. Next summer that bed will be full of elephant ear, hostas, gardenias and multicolored begonias. I can barely wait!
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