a most excellent day

a few leaves from our front garden

Oh my... yesterday was one of those days that ranked high up there, near perfection. It was sunny and clear and crisp a beautiful autumn day and the fall colour on the trees is beginning it's spectacular annual show • I had a busy productive day drawing thumbnails here at the teak topped desk with a break at lunch to power walk through pastures Bonjour Dairy Cows ! with Sue from the post office. We walk as fast as we can back through the fields until we meet up with the ocean, we walk down the red clay cliff, along the beach (which looks different every day) and then back uphill through another field. Chatting all the way. So, so good for both my body and my mind. • I drove her husbands F150 4x4 giant truck back to the post office for her as she had borrowed someones' car. When she asked me if I would - my immediate reaction was to be my normal scaredy cat self, I wanted to say No I can't or I don't want to do that - but instead I said What the Hell ? I did it and it felt great... and it was easy. I felt so comfortable and at home way up high in the big cab that I was tempted to roll down the big truck's window, hang my left arm out, steer delicately with a finger or two, turn up the country station on the radio and cruise around town a few times in hopes that some folks would see me. Snort. I have convinced myself that I'm afraid of driving (along with a rag tag bunch of other fears) so this sudden unexpected accomplishment felt like a rather large jewel in the powerful crown I've been crafting • more teak topping til 4pm and then I got the ?@#$!!!*& beast rouge (my lawn mower) to finally start with the help of a 12 year old mechanical genius - AJ. She was just at the small engine spa last week so I don't know what her problem was, but on the weekend she absolutely refused to start for me. He did the bulk of the lawn mowing, I paid him and off he drove on his bicycle meanwhile I retrieved La Beast Rouge from her tidy shed to neaten up all the fussy bits that 12 year olds don't seem to notice and I thought what the hell - lets crank her up and turn her into a bush whacker and we'll mow down that damn encroaching ground cover and a few terrible patches of stinging nettles (feels much like a jellyfish sting). Yee Haw !! Watch Out Jungle 'Cause Here We Come - tres, tres satisfying. Don't be at all surprised if my next purchase is giant ear protection and a chain saw • wait there's more • so while AJ was mowing the bulk of the lawn, the wide flat straight away sections I was able to do dishes, tidy the kitchen and organize my lists and library books. Thursday is library day • as soon as I tucked La Beast Rouge away snug in her shed Missy D and I piled into the teal coloured 97 Ford Escort Wagon and began our big errand run - Missy D loves to run errands - the drugstore, a quick stop at the little gift and home decor store, the post office to mail something, the library for new books and finally the grocery store where I happily shopped away with my list in a ... near empty store - ahhhhh sigh ! be still my heart. And all the while Missy D kept my seat warm and a careful watch on the door • home, home, home again to dump our groceries and library books and fly out the door once again so that we could stroll along the harbour as the sun was setting in a spectacular evening sky.

oh yeah .... and I slept like a baby, my body draped with cats.

A perfect day. Merci M. Universe