Living life by the fireplace in the winter time is not much different this season. I'm doing the same things I always do, but it is colder and I have no water. Leaving to work away for the past 2 months, I thought I was doing the right things...I opened all my faucets, put salt in the toilets, turned off the hot water heater, and turned the water main off in the cave, but not at the street. The Chatette is frozen...or was prior to my arrival home this past Monday afternoon. The cold came on fast, hard, strong and is staying. Everyone here is wonderful. I wander over to Evelyn's often throughout the day. Jean-Paul and Christiane and Josie and Patrick are all offering help, phone calls and visits to see what can be done. But, the bottom line for me at the moment is that I really can't deal with one more thing. During the week prior to my departure from Holland there was a new problem to cope with in the states each day that was not of my making. I needed to get home to cope with them...property, banking, taxes, and now I've returned to this. I'm taking it a step at a time. I check each problem off my list once I've been able to do something about it and move on to the next. I sometimes burst into tears, but I've told my friends here that I might be ready to cope with the water by next week. I just keep moving. I keep my nice roaring fire going in the fireplace, snuggle up with Dal and Sam from time to time under the covers, read a book, make myself a nice dinner to eat by the fire, piece by piece work through each piece of shit that has been thrown my way, and do it at what may appear to others to be a snail's pace...but for right now-I am a snail.
Books on the Beam
- Sheron Long: Dog Trots Globe (*****)
- Jeffrey Penn May: Where the River Splits (*****)
- Joseph Joffo: A Bag of Marbles (*****)
- Leo Buscaglia, Ph.D.: The Fall of Freddie the Leaf-A Story of Life for All Ages (*****)
- Richard Bach: Illusions-The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (*****)
- Thad Carhart: The Piano Shop on the Left Bank-Discovering a Forgotten Passion in a Paris Atelier (*****)
- Rick Jarow: Creating the Work You Love (*****)
Vernissage-2009
- Welcome to La Galerie Dans la Cave
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Dearest snail, I feel with you, take care, warmest hugs from Tromsø, you will succeed soon, Niels
Posted by: Niels Windfeld Lund | February 11, 2012 at 12:40 AM
...this is just hibernation...it makes for a better Spring...good wine helps...Love...E
Posted by: Eric | February 11, 2012 at 03:14 PM
Thanks Niels-I'm actually getting used to it. Ah, there is a reason for this in here somewhere-Happy Weekend-Love, Laury
Posted by: Laury Bourgeois | February 11, 2012 at 09:44 PM
You're right Eric-I actually do think of it as hibernation! I think we're going to have a particularly prolific rose garden this spring! Love you-Laury
Posted by: Laury Bourgeois | February 11, 2012 at 09:45 PM