still cold, still lethargic, and object #10

Saturday - My Earthlink mail app is screwy. Comments show up in the inbox long after they show up on the blog and not even in the right order, most of my replies to the comments on my last post haven’t shown up at all. Today is still cold, mid 40s and down to mid 20s tonight but tomorrow and the next day and the next day and so on will be better. My feet are cold. Even though I’m getting good nights’ sleep I feel sleepy all day. Another day I don’t want to go out even though the sun is shining, the sky is blue but breezy. There is nothing to be done out there, not yet. I just refilled the bird feeder after a cardinal came to the empty platform and am watching a little wren scatter seed left and right looking for I don’t know what. And now a goldfinch in its winter colors.

I finally finished the library book that is long overdue. I don’t remember what recommendation from who that I put it on my to read list and when I saw it at the library I checked it out. It took so long to read because it would get tiresome, not really advancing the story, poetic, wordy, reminiscences. The first and last quarter moved the story, the middle half about did me in. I skimmed over a lot. 

With nothing of interest to write about, here is another object, #10…

the Dresden porcelain chandelier that hung in my parents’ bedroom while I was growing up. I have always loved this chandelier from the time I first laid eyes on it and made clear to my siblings that it was going to be mine. My parents lived in three other houses after they sold my family home after us three kids had moved out. Houston was growing, the area was being commercialized. I didn’t acquire it until after my father had died and my mother moved to the PNW to live with my brother. I hung it over the dining room table in my old Houston house with 10’ ceilings. When we finally sold that property in 2014 and moved to the Wharton house permanently I wanted to give it a thorough cleaning before hanging it here so I hung it under a ladder and cleaned every petal and leaf with a cotton swab. I won’t tell you how long that took, how many years it hung there even after I cleaned it because this house has 8’ ceilings and I didn’t know where to put it. Besides I had already bought and had installed a light fixture made by an artist over the dining room table here. Eventually, I had Rocky hang it in the corner of my in home studio room to help light a dark corner. It’s lost a few leaves and flowers over the years from being moved so many times (6) but still a beauty.

Sunday - Warming trend starts today! Yay!