In All of Humboldt County.....

This is my favorite house. I used to walk by it everyday on my very long walk home from work many, many years ago and dream of one day acquiring it and fixing it up for me and my cats to live in. I would be so happy there making my art, working in my little studio designed specifically for me by me. I would sit in the front yard and drink tea and coffee on foggy mornings enjoying the quiet. I would have friends and family come visit whenever they felt like and just enjoy their company. Most of all, I would have somewhere safe and wonderful to call home. It was would be my refuge from all the really miserable crap that was happening in my life at the time. Sadly, I never was able to get much information about the house other than the owner lived out of the area and didn't want to rent or sell it. Bummer. So whenever we make it out to the bottoms for a nice long walk like we did yesterday, I always check on my friend. My friend, this wonderful little Victorian farmhouse, is now melting into the earth as I write this. When I first visited it was abandoned but stood by itself with windows and yard intact, just dark and lonely. Now it is still intact but each window is boarded up and it is fenced in with barbed wire, KEEP OUT! signs, and overgrown shrubs and berry brambles. Now it actually looks sick and lonely, which makes my heart ache a bit. I did tell my old friend that I if I couldn't come to it's rescue and bring it back to it's former lovely self, that, I hoped and wished that some wonderful person out there would, and love it as much as I do.

Can I Go And Play Now?

I got all of my chores done.......well, the ones that I needed to get done today, and I feel o.k. today. So, can I go play now? A walk, a trip downtown, a trip to the coffee place, a trip SOMEWHERE, ANYWHERE! I need to get out of this chair and out of the house. Doesn't matter that it is pouring rain and I can only find my sandals. I just need to get out! Gonna bundle up the boy and hit the road. See you all after my adventure!

A Nice Long Walk

We took a nice long walk through the fields behind our house today. It was surprisingly warm today, in the 70's and beautiful. We spyed lots of pretty birds, dandelions, berry brambles, two horses, and many, many other things. I hope it helped Ciaran get a little bit of that stinky energy out. I needed to put my thoughts in order so I could come home and relax. So now here I am, back at home, with super swollen hands, getting my plan into action. Do I finish my taxes first, my custom orders, or do the dishes? Hmmmmmmm, the only thing I really want to do is work on is my custom orders, but I also want my taxes out of my hair, and a clean kitchen. Maybe I will just make a quesadilla and let the swelling go down, and then put the dishes and the taxes off until tomorrow.