It’s snowing again. It’s been snowing all week. Schools finally gave in and closed on Friday. For 44 years of my life there was nothing happier than school closings for snowstorms.
These days any day can be snow day if I want it to be. I miss the utter joy of going to bed thinking I’d have a long drive to work and then discovering there was no school and no drive. It’s still pretty outside and I can stay home all day if I want.
I’m looking out my workroom window. Lilac and honeysuckle bushes are beginning to bend again to the snow. The higher branches are from one of our mountain ash trees. There’s close to an inch standing on the thicker branches. All it needs is some red finches to drop by and flit around a bit.
It’s a perfect backdrop for my daily additions to my happy list. So I’ll begin there:
Happy List, Part 4: 02/09/2020
82. I love looking out my window each morning and seeing how my little backyard forest is changing.
83. Seeing the red finches migrate through each winter.
84. Being so excited about a drawing, I can’t wait to paint it with my computer. The raven was like that. I ‘d done 4 drawings with the bird flying straight toward the viewer. They sucked so I sat my raven down and then I loved him.
85. Recovering from a computer disaster. Yesterday, I lost my entire Sketchbook 2 folder. An hour later I’d recovered a copy and learned a whole bunch about my computer.
86. Chef Luke Biewick’s consommé and breads.
87. Crossing something off my To-Do List.
88. Staying in my jammies all day long.
89. Talking to Angela or David on the phone. Their accents (England and Alabama) tickle me beyond belief.
90. Recognizing allusions in paintings and books. I get this little charge because I’m so clever. It’s one of the reasons I believe in liberal arts degrees.
91. Seeing Brooklyn dance in the PACE Center’s production of Matilda. God, that girl can move.
92. Listening to audio books when I’m on the treadmill.
93. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo–the best beach book I’ve read I think. It would have been even better if I’d been on a beach.
94. Losing a pound.
95. Knowing how remarkable our kids are. Hardly a day goes by that we don’t discover some cool thing they are doing.
96. Knowing what I’m going to make for dinner.
97. The Pioneer Woman. I don’t know why.
98. Seeing a Nuggets game on TV these days. I wish Comcast and the Nuggets and Avs could just settle their differences. How much money do they need?
99. The slash in Jamal Murray’s eyebrow.
100. Willa loving her new glasses. Retro and pink:)
101. Talking to our kids about their kids.
102. Knowing our grandkids so well. We are so lucky to have them living close to us.
103. Taking Brooklyn and Sammi to plays. We are going to RENT later this month. I’m excited.
104. Sammi and Brooklyn telling us that they liked the Aftro-American version of Oklahoma we saw together better than all the other theater outings we’ve done. No more Disney for us:)
105. Knowing a genuine Southern gentleman–our friend David.
106. The cheese straws David brought to me when we saw him at Jenny. They don’t make them any more. Sigh.
107. Jaydee’s scary cat imitation. She says her scary cat is named Trickster.
I’m caught up for this week. Stay happy out there.
Katherine