I returned home from Georgia yesterday. I was so glad to get home. It was my last trip for work as next week is my last week at work. I was anxious to get home but I ran into Bristol race traffic. Yuck. I think I ran a redlight on Volunteer Parkway in Bristol, Tennessee. I also saw a police officer turn around…like he or she saw me. Yikes. Maybe the police car was just turning around, but I’ll never know, because I zipped off and hid at Tennessee High School!   Yeah..that’s me…just sitting at THS…like I was really going there.

I have sat in the “lane of shame” with the flashing blue lights earlier this year and it cost me over $500. I did not realize that going 86 in a 65 would be such a bad mistake.    I don’t normally speed..I was going downhill…in a rental car that was much more powerful than my Prius.    Think what I could have bought with that $500!! I hated myself.    

It’s fun to blog and work on projects, but today, I got up and worked on a spreadsheet for work for a few hours–I am not a numbers person so…well, I don’t want to say.   Following that, I didn’t do anything. Nothing.  Mike and I  meant to go see the local high school football team open their season, but we didn’t do that either. It was a pajama day.

It’s the simple things that make my life wonderful, and here in Mendota, we are surrounded by simple things. 

Lots of wonderful.    When I’m in a larger town, I get easily distracted by the volume of stuff and people and traffic.  It’s like a bad circus.

My brother-in law brought my niece’s daughter (my grandniece) by this afternoon.  She’s a little bit of wonderful.

They drove up on the golf cart (now that is my kind of traffic). Look at it rain!!  Uncle Gerald said “Arianna…tell Eva about the mama deer and her baby.”   I asked “how big was the baby?”    Arianna held up her fingers and said “this big.”

I asked Arianna…”do you like the rain.”    She replied “yes,” but this picture shows a little girl who doesn’t like being wet–at least not out of the pool.  It was sunny but still raining.  You know the kind of feeling…the asphalt has puddles of warm water…maybe bubbles of tar…feels good on your feet. 

I said…”turn around and shake it off.”  She did.

Had to spin around and wind up a little bit…

Full spins….

Turning and turning…

Ahhh….and having fun…

And to just top off a great moment…He sent a rainbow.  So pretty.

See that ugly little brown thing?  That is our woodboiler.  It heats our water and the two houses in the winter.  The heat is so warm we usually don’t use it until December.     Behind the woodboiler is a grapevine…I got it from the Washington County 4H Club two years ago.  Hope I have grapes next year.

It’s good to be home. Tomorrow is a Stay.At.Home.Day. I’m making my curtain for the kitchen foyer. I’ve said this about a million times, but it will happen tomorrow.

Time for bed…please leave me a comment and say hello!  It’s more fun when I hear from you!