Food 24 Sep 2005 05:36 am
The Best Part of Waking Up….
Best Friend came home last night to waller and roll in the air conditioning after a long and too-hot day in the car. I’d spent the day in perfect Friday Form: cleaning the house from top to bottom. I love a Friday that gets my nest totally clean, my frige and pantry stocked, and ideally, a date at the end. It always seems to me to be the exact herald a weekend needs.
While he chilled out down to his pores, I skipped out to do the grocery shopping ALONE. My Walmart Boycott is back on (on Why, later) and Maryville high, as well as the Vols, had an away game. Which meant traffic was lazy and light.
Horn of Plenty was GORGEOUS…I must take a pic sometime. The garden section of the lot is full of pumpkins, gourds of all sizes, shapes, and variety, mums in about 10 colors and shades, and apples, apples, apples. Hay and corn stalks too. I took my time, talked to my friends who work there, and left with a slap happy grin on my face.
We had Jalepeno Pimento Cheese sandwiches for dinner when I got home. Our chickens, who’d had a fun day outside exploring and dreaming, hit the hay without fuss. We haven’t seen them that tired from something other than a day hike in a long, long time. So, in a way, we got our “date” at the end of the day….a good hour or so spent reading side by side, talking, laughing, and unwinding.
And then. oh no. He Who Is Learning to Sleep Much Better But Still Has a Ways To Go was up before the sun and it hit me like a ton. Of. Bricks.
I’d forgotten to buy coffee.
Not good. Not. At. All.
I just need one cup. Just one hot cup. There’s no Starbucks around here, or even really close gas station reputed to have fresh stuff in styro cups.
So Best Friend, being the gallant knight that he is, took Chubby with him and headed to Kroger, open 24 hours. The day is saved!
As the elixer hit my system, it was like the cells in my brain began morning attendance: “here”, “here”, “present”. I’m not sure they are all accounted for but probably enough of them are to get me through a Saturday!
It’s going to be another hot one, with two soccer games, car clean-out, and maybe a picnic in the park or visit to one of the hundreds of fall festivals currently going on. Coming soon to a blog near you….the discovery of the quintessential autumn apple variety!
on 24 Sep 2005 at 1:20 pm 1.Gigi said …
Oh,Tia-you did it again! A beautiful post! An I like the pictures you include.Where do you get them? I wish I could do that.
did you read my “Quiet Place” Just click on the small print quiet place in the middle of the heading on my spot.I can hardly wait for your next post.Have a blessed weekend with your lille family and family of God.
I am writing another post and am naming it again My Quiet Place.
on 24 Sep 2005 at 5:12 pm 2.TiaDavidandOurLittleChickens said …
Yes! I meant to post about that poem. Perfectly agreed with the sentiment I was trying to get across. Thanks for posting it. I get my images from google images. Go to Google, click on “images”, type in what you want (I did “hot coffee” this am) and scroll until you find one you like.
As for posting them, that gets a bit more confusing. I can try to walk you through it or maybe blogger’s instructions will help. If you click on “help” they have a “how do I post pictures” option