randomocity

so, i see i haven't blogged in awhile, so i am starting, and hoping that something will come to me as i type.

My foot is doing well post-surgically. i see the dr for my 4 week checkup on friday. unless i spend humongous times on my feet, no probs. i have even driven with it.

I believe that I have my NANO theme ready to go. It involves something dear to my heart, though i will have to fictionalize it somewhat. This, for those who don't know is trying to write a novel in one month, november, i forget how many words. ryan knows all about it. i wasn't sure if i could do it, as i didn't have a theme that stuck. i would love to do a murder mystery, action thriller without sex, but i really don't know much about police procedure, fbi, seals, cia, etc., so i would only be going from all the gazillion books with this theme that i have read.

Dawn and I are going to check out a place on Marblehead for the reunion, after i call and see if it is available. it is www.greatrentals.com/OH/63o2.html hope the link works. i forgot to originally include the www, so if it doesn't work, put the www in.

kevin already hates mcdonalds, but we told him that he can't quit without another job in place. he is especially griping because this is his first week at real "full-time", and as they have him on nights, he misses a lot of activities. He says, "i'll never have any time off!" all those of you who work full-time know the adjustment it takes. i did tell him that education is the only way out of mindless, boring jobs that are awful. if you like what you do, at least it makes it more bearable to work full-time.

so, kerry is gone from today til the 28th, working 11+ hour days at a great translating opportunity, and something else to put on her resume. I ask you all to pray for her, for the fatigue factor of pregnancy will make it even more difficult. don't expect to hear from her or see her blog till probably october. braden, however, has all our permission to blog.

ah, dreams

the stuff of fantasy and weirdness..

so, i meant to blog sunday about my dream saturday night, but sundays there seems to be a mad rush to the comp, and i rarely get on.



i dreamed that the church called kerry on a mission. braden had to stay finishing school. but they called kerry as a missionary because they needed her special skillset. no one would do but her. then they called me as her companion, so that if she went into labor, i could deliver her (probably so the church wouldn't have a medical bill :-).



so, we walked around all the time missionarying. I don't know where we went on the mission. i assume it was spanish speaking. i remember that kerry was the senior comp.
the end.

the saga

saga is a texttwist word, for those in the know

this is the story, or once upon a time, there was a rhododendron bush sleeping away in a plant store. it looked great! it said it could live in part shade to shade.

so, this lovely rhododendron bush was lovingly purchased and planted in the bedroom garden of a home in north olmsted. it got lots of sun in the spring, and bits (but only bits) of sun in the summer. but, hey, it likes shade. and the maple tree shaded it well, lo, these many years.

poor rhododendron, to go to a home where gardening is a hit or miss proposition. why, oh why, was it planted where said maple tree stole nearly all the moisture from the soil, and blocked the rain from hitting the ground in said garden.

it lived. but barely. it never grew. it had some leaves, but it didn't look healthy. then it started to die.

in the meantime, said unaccomplished gardener decided to make a hedge to block the view into the back yard. rhododendron plants are supposed to get big. just this one hadn't. so,

like the parable about the seed in good ground, the gardener decided to move poor rhododendron plant to the sunny, quite wet location of the new hedge.

LO!! i mean, LO!! the leaves started to look healthy, and there was one beautiful pink blossom within a week or two. how did the gardener rejoice!!

then, the rhododendron died.
the end