Feel the need to tell you about mi day...it was a beaut. Sounds like I'm talking about a fish, but oh well.
Worked until close to 1am so I took the liberty of sleeping in late. With the time change, that was me gettin' up at the crack o' noon. I can sleep a whole lot later when there isn't construction right outside my window starting at 8am everyday...wow...
It had to be close to 70 and cloudless today, and suddenly everything felt possible. I love spring.
Met up with the always delightful duo of Matt Hypes and Kari Burgess at the Asheville staple of Early Girl Eatery for a very late lunch and great convo. How I love Early Girl and all the A-town places of organic/free-range/locally grown goodness. Bid goodbye to the friends, who unfortunately had to skedaddle back up to the Rockbridge and I headed to Malaprops for some old fashioned book shopping. Bought the most recent from Erik Larson (of "Devil in the White City") called "Thunderstruck" which I'm quite excited about, "The Marriage of Sticks" by Jonathan Carroll and "What We Believe But Cannot Prove", a collection of essays by "today's leading thinkers", including Jared Diamond and Ian McEwan. Oh I needed new reads. They'll be great for the impending trip. Everyone downtown was smiling and even more friendly than normal; I kept expecting whole sidewalks of strangers to break out in song and dance.
After walking around downtown a bit more I hopped back in the 'Roo and headed over to Alana's house, where she was sitting out in the sunshine in train overalls, painting three rocking chairs a bright shade of red. I did my part by laying on a beach towel and petting her dog. She is kind enough to be chaperoning me to Charlotte tomorrow night so we were shoring up plans. As the day wore on we moved to the back yard, where I helped her scrape paint off a large old porch swing (I managed to get green paint chips in my eye. Way to go, Spooner) and chase her dog when she took to wandering.
I headed back to the Shady with enough time to shower, finish up my bible study and pop back into the car to meet up with the girls at Kristen and Beth's, then back home to finalize all my lists, do lots of laundry and get twitchy excited.
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I finally bought a new camera charger this weekend, so my little elph, which has been out of commission since my UK trip last April, is back in the game! That means more photos! I know J.Mo is cheering...she hates all these words.
2 comments:
Hey, I was on the phone with Alana during the paint-scraping. That makes me happy to know that I was sort of around for a good day in Asheville!
Take care of Alana for me.
are you back from dc yet? dang. I miss seeing you!
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