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End of June I feel strangely content :)
Summer has not been rushing me this year. It actually feels like a month has gone by instead of it feeling like a week. Things we've been up to : Let's see, I bought Samantha a slip and slide, Tylor thinks he is too old for it now and he probably is. It was so funny to see him try it once and only once. He promised Samantha he would, but he was very reluctant. She has been really funny to watch also as she gets to the tiny pool at the end she acts like she crashes.
I started a new crochet project. I plan for it to be a scarf.
I finally picked our first tomatoes. The are so teeny!
I created a new bed for some vegetables and watermelon to grow. My brother asked if it was a graveyard :) but I told him that the fence is the only way to keep my cats from using it as their litter box.
Our swing set arrived yesterday. It's a playground swing set so that adults (me) can swing too! I can't wait to get it set up. My dad and brother came over to help us get it off the delivery truck.
Saturday we woke up to the termite man ringing the doorbell. Tylor rushed to make sure our cat, Spicy didn't get out of the back gate because he gets really scared of strangers and would try to escape if the gate got left open. When Tylor went to check he couldn't find Spicy anywhere. I yelled for him to ask the termite man if he had seen our cat get out of the fence but the man had already left. He hadn't been here but five minutes! I thought that was the fastest termite inspection ever. But anyway, we couldn't find Spicy anywhere. We looked in all his usual hiding places but no Spicy. I started to panic a little, as I fought back bitter tears. The thoughts "I can't lose my kitty, he needs me, he'll be lost without me, he'll get hurt or worse" crept in my mind. I put the kids in the car and went up the road three houses to the neighbor's homes to see if they had seen a huge white cat with orange spots and an orange tail. I'm a little embarrassed to say that we have never met these neighbors since we moved in here almost four years ago - we only met the ones directly beside us and across from us. We've been to their houses for trick-or-treating but that's it. So anyway we met some of the nicest people! I'm sooo glad to have finally met them. They were as concerned for Spicy as we were - between the two houses we visited we discovered they too are cat people having about 10 cats each in their families. After the meetings we went back to looking for him. This lasted for a good three and half hours from 11:00 to 2:30. We hadn't eaten anything since we jumped out of bed and were starving and tired. I decided enough was enough that we had to take a break and eat. As soon as I had decided that we would stop looking, Tylor yells "There he is!" I ran out back to see our stinker of a kitty squeezing himself out of his hiding spot that he had underneath the lawn mower! Of all places he chooses the most dangerous place to hide - see, he needs me, his elevator doesn't reach all the way to the top floor sometimes. Needless to say we were thrilled and a bit annoyed. I went over to Tricia's blog and was prompted to comment on her post today. I started blogging in her comment box and decided to bring the topic back here. See, I have put off exercising (and my art lately). I think that the circumstances in my life have clouded my vision. Simple is best for my life right now, but to get to "simple" I have to slowly declutter the "complicated". I'm still in the process of painting my kitchen, can you believe it? It has been since February since I began that project! The positive thing is that Tylor and Samantha have been helping me a lot the past three days. I feel wonderful helping them discover confidence in themselves by helping me achieve this goal. I'm content in their presence and I smile when I get a glimpse of them working so diligently at painting the cabinets placed all around the kitchen table, and seeing Samantha reach her highest while on her tippy-toes to get the job done. She is so proud to be able to paint our kitchen. She keeps asking, "Am I doing a good job, mommy?" and "is it special because me and Tylor are painting it?" Of course I tell her yes and that she is doing a beautiful job! This kitchen is turning out to be very pretty with white cabinets and green walls. But, I will never attempt to paint a kitchen ever again if I can help it. It has been the most horrid painting experience but hopefully the most rewarding in the end.
So between working on our garden - we chopped down two dead cherry trees Tylor and Samantha helped with that too - and home projects I haven't had any time or energy to put into my art or exercising. I figured being active in my chores has been efficient enough for me to not have to exercise, but my spirit is really yearning to start on those journals and other ideas that I have been wanting to attempt. Like I said to Tricia, my heart aches for my life to get to a more simple place. I dream of the day that I have finally sorted through all of my clutter! I desperately want a place for me to be able to work on my art without having to clean up everything afterwards, it just kills my groove when I have to put up everything. I'm thinking about setting up a small table at the end of our bed and using that as an art making space. Oh! and I have to start finding homes for the little kittens. First things first though - back to painting. Before I go I want to share two pictures I took the other day and a video (my first video!) of the rain that fell yesterday. They are perfect for the last day of June.
What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade.
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So silly :)
