RV Poetry

Yes, lax, I’ve been about blogging. I am not sure why, but I think it is that I wanted a change to my blogs and could not (and still cannot) make up my mind what that change is.

On the one hand this is not a great thing, but on the other, it means I embrace change. An important attribute to survive our daily lives as we have little control over so many things. (Sounds good on paper.)

Shelly’s Only the Good Friday gives us a further excuse to start our year out right. In our family, we have practiced asking each other for “one nice thought” periodically, though, in honestly, it has traditionally been me who does the asking. It has proved effective, though some days the responses were more on the lines of, “We had macaroni and cheese for dinner.”

Now I do not like the word, “nice”! So, I’ve decided to reword it to, one reason to smile. So, since I did not go back to doing Wordless Wednesday, I am thinking about making Wednesdays a day to give one reason to smile.

Ulterior motive? Yep. One reason to smile allows me to choose words or pictures or both! I’m learning. Our reason to smile over Christmas, our son’s sweet old dame, Bella, was a joy to be with.

Now, what is your Only the Good Friday thought? Surely you have one. While you are thinking, why not head on over to This Eclectic Life and check out her Only the Good Friday post and then follow the links to others who took the time to post their good! And then, ask your family what their reason to smile is today. They just might surprise you.

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The chaos of too many buildings in one location, though, I admit, my camera and I were drawn to the scene!

The Space Needle from afar. Seeing it against the blue sky is not as infrequent as one would expect from ‘gray’ Seattle. It is always a treat to see. (I say is, for me, was, as we were only in that area three years, sigh.

But, there is peace in view, even when driving on the busy interstates. Leon never got over rounding a corner to see it. Neither did I. This is the calming magic of Seatlle, I think.

I hope you enjoyed these. Every time we view them, our resolve to work in Florida twelve months a year, instead of six or seven, lessens.

We will be back Seattle. We almost signed up to volunteer in Alaska next summer, with you in mind. Maybe in a year or two. For now, the winds are blowing here – and that makes me happy.

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We’re in! In what? A cycle of too much to do and not enough time to do it all – much less with proper attention. But….

We met with the Condo board of the condo we are renting, this morning, two members of it, actually. Went fine.

The lobby and grounds are as beautiful as we remembered from our initial walk through. They are redoing the walkway to the pool, so the water area that wraps around the walkway is drained on the West side of the lobby. (What do you call it? A concrete water area that weaves through the center of the grounds- but squared off edges – so not “natural” — but quite striking with the plantings around it.) Beautiful even drained.

The one thing I noticed that made me smile: in spite of a huge building blocking the ocean breeze (in theory) — the center grounds had wind from somewhere!

Have a few perks we were not aware of — especially concerning if we take a vacation — feel more secure knowing someone is checking on the condo — and emptying the refrigerator should power be uncooperative.

So, time to pack a little faster, file a little more — and HOPE the new small amount of congestion that has hit us both is just from all the dust we kicked up that this ac pulls in from other units while moving stuff and packing – we are both allergic to dust mites. We were not going to make the move final until we returned from his family reunion – but now that we have had to close windows because of the heat — the dust is coming back as badly as it did before we started opening windows – I would never have made this winter here had it not been for nice weather and open windows… This will be the first time we haven’t done the clean out when we have moved ourselves!

Choice — DUST filled air or newly painted walls with normal paints (sigh, we didn’t see the listing until they had painted — we would have bought no VOC paints…)

We could bring in the plants that NASA shows clears the air of chemicals, but it also said one plant per 100 square feet — that is over 90 plants — where on earth would I put them all?

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