shoulds & wants

a few more blooms from our terracotta gardens

Goodness, 10:00 am already. I'm late ... I'm late.

Shoulds & Wants
subtitled - Far Too Many Great Books

Missy D and I had our lovely long walk up a few streets, cutting through the elementary school playground, down a street, up a street, down a very big grassy hill that edges a marsh filled with red winged blackbirds awake early, busy and singing madly. Down onto the crescent beach with soaring, floating gulls and whitecaps, climbing up a few rocks, and another favourite grassy hill to cross, then around the dining hall and into the park and along the boardwalk back toward Black Street. Miss D knows the route by heart, and trots along practically at a run at the very farthest length of her retractable lead - without ever pulling, she has very good manners my Missy D. I have to almost run to keep up with her - hooray Winnie Dixon !

Bird feeders filled, breakfast made for D & for me - soft boiled eggs, wheat toast & a clementine.
Now, if I had it my way I would finish this post and spend my day whiling away tucked under the covers in the chocolate brown room, with my recent fantastic pile of books from the library, deciding in what order they should be read. Three novels the stories all set on islands (one of which I'm almost finished), a memoir or 2 about living with Autism, 3 books about composting, a great book on spending & living with much less, 2 other new novels, Dorie Greenspan's new big, fat, wonderful cookbook (borrowed from my library a second time), a book on green living & a new favourite Peterson's guide to the Atlantic Seashore - sigh (a book I must have my own copy of). A big pot of tea, a cat or 2 or 3, a down duvet ...

I won't bore you with my nasty shoulds list. We all have them, they're endless, often uninspiring, chore-like to dos & must dos. Yawning. Days like today I try my best to cut a deal with myself. Go mad, as mad as mad can be (sadly my mad as can be in this department is barely mad at all) with a few shoulds, say til 1:30-2pm & then Bonjour ! bring on those lovely wants.


common red seaweeds, mostly Northern - Plate 7 - Field Guide to the Atlantic Seashore