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Sunday, January 14, 2018

January Doings








 Bluebird of happiness...except kitty isn't happy.

Happy New Year! Can you still say that even though January is half over? January, the quiet month. Oh how I love January. Pearl gray skies, bare limbs swaying, hundreds of little chirpy visitors, cozy fires.

 It takes me a while to get back into the groove after the  holidays. So much stuff that needs to find a home, so many flat spaces (tops of every flat piece of furniture) mounded with who knows what. Whee, no wonder I was feeling so tired, ha.  Now I have a 3 day weekend and am humming along quite nicely with my to-do list.

I've been thinking a lot about my daddy. He passed away in September. He was fun and funny. He made up all these "Weir" secret activities. We had a Weir Shuffle (walking and making a rhythm with your heels, we had a Weir Handshake (I'd have to kill you if I showed it to you, lol). There was a Weir Hand-capade where you made a certain rhythm with slapping the tops of your hands then your legs, over and over. We had a Weir Song (Don't Ya Just Know It   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQM7c1h9Slw). When we were older we sang this at every get together. It was even sung at my niece's  wedding reception, all us Weirs singing off key as loud as we could. Poignantly, it's the last thing we did at daddy's memorial wake, a tender and loud memory. All of us singing with tears clouding our vision. Lovely, lovely memories.

I hope January is being good to you! We're having wonderful, sustained cold weather. My garden is sooooo happy, and so am I!


2 comments:

  1. Hello Leslie girl ! Thank you so much for your kind comments .. I guess we all go through that stage of needing to take a year off or so ? LOL

    I am so sorry for the loss of your father .. he sounded like one heck of a funny caring man .. grief like that takes along time to come to terms with so be kind to yourself and give yourself all the time in the world to remember and love him for the father he was.
    He looks like a James Dean type of character ... very "cool" cute and ahead of his time maybe ?

    I am going to attempt a couple of changes in my garden that will take a lot of thought and effort .. thank heavens I have my Garden PA ! haha .. I just want to have that all consuming drive I used to have when it comes to my garden and fingers crossed I hope it will set me on fire again and off I go ? haha
    If you ever want any advice or an extra eye for what you would like to do, I am only a blog/email away girl .. I am only to happy to try and help if possible : )
    Mean while enjoy what is left of the month .. relax and rejuvenate !
    Take care
    Joy (in the VERY frozen NORTH) : )

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