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Hell-OOoooOoooOooooOOOOooo out there!
Gasp-gasp!
You know the old addage, “when it rains, it pours?” More and more I believe it. I don’t understand why it is that the cosmic forces always line up so that every-darn-thing happens at one time, but they DO!
I’m smack in the middle of book deadlines, my boss goes out of town next week so this week is meeting-heavy and finish-this-up-heavy, AND…my sister’s in town!! All of this is great stuff…the book deadline means we’re nearing the first photoshoot!!
I love-love the first photoshoot, because I get to see how they’re going to style the book and the mood that will be set for the cover and the fonts and colors for the inside and all that stuff that makes a book feel REAL in the early stages. I’m also excited to see how the garments look on real people and in interesting settings, rather than on my white cloth-covered mannequin in the corner of the living room.
Meetings at work mean input from supervisors and progress on languishing projects and moving forward. Moving forward is GOOD. Intense periods of work and progress can be really invigorating.
And OF COURSE I’m THRILLED to have Tonya here!! My parents live here in town, too, so she’s staying with them. We’ve been hanging out in the evenings and yesterday we got on a plant-planting kick. I decided to grow sweetpeas this summer (the flower). We live in a town that for some reason made great use of cement blocks back in the 40s when our house was built. The house is stucco-covered cement blocks, the fence is cement blocks, and all the houses and fences in the neighborhood are cement blocks.
This isn’t our house, but it’s a good example of creative cement block fence building:
This is our side yard. Look at all that cement! The sweetpeas will grow all along this wall:
Anyway, I’m growing the flowers not to necessarily cover up the concrete, but just to enhance it. Make it look a little homier. I’m not sure if they’ll grow in this volcanic ash/sand/red clay that we’ve got for a yard…but I’ll keep you posted.
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3 Responses to “Coming up for air”
Nice to know that New Mexico has constructed an homage to concrete in the 1940’s. I’d plant flowers but we most definitely got snow last night… Ah, Colorado weather.
Well, with all that concrete, you’re set for a hurricane. Now an earthquake could be a problem.
ha! Yeah, we’ve imagined how rich the guy with the cement factory must have been!
Rumor has it that there was just no metal or wood back during and shortly after the war, so they used what nature them…ash and dirt!