Beauty

[just bee]

Why isn't he bringing home a watermelon?

I'm going to have to go to the store myself.  We rarely shop together because we have different shopping styles.  He goes in, picks up what he intends to buy and gets out.  Uses the self-check lane.

I go in and analyze every item in the produce department.  I read labels.  I ponder.

He can walk into a store and put three apples in a bag and he's done.  I have to look at every variety, compare the prices then analyze each apple before I finally place it in the bag.  Inevitably, I have to double-check the apples before I get to the non-self-check lane to make sure I picked up all the same variety.

[just bee]

Looking at A-words.

Abstinence?

Austere?

Adaptable?

Active?

Aesthetic?

Assurgent?

Assuring?

Attainable?

[just bee]

Today is the last day of Jim-dandy July.  Was it?

Got the new computer up and running.  We had the trim on the house and the garage door repainted a blinding white.  The front door was painted olive.  Yesterday the electricians replaced a ceiling fan with a more modern LED fixture.  We replaced a brass and glass hanging fixture (the one that dropped from the ceiling) with three flat LED lights.  Then the brass and glass hanging fixture in the front entry was replaced with one of those flat-against-the ceiling LED lights.

I'll miss the rainbows on the walls (the morning sun would hit that fixture and it was light hitting prisms).  But now that the hanging fixtures are gone, the space looks more open, larger, cleaner.  It's the loft effect. 

We still have another hanging fixture to replace and the outside fixtures must change (Phase 2).  I'll miss the last brass and glass fixture.  When the light is on, the pattern on the walls is really cool.  That will be gone.

All the brass hardware on the cabinetry must go.  The search for new pulls begins!

One project at a time.

[just bee]

Well, now I'm really glad I bought those Classical Stretch DVDs.  I picked up Season 11 and I haven't actually used the DVD.  Why?  PBS is currently airing that season so at 5:30 AM I just watch what's on.

This morning it was Episode 25.  This is one I'll want to watch again and again.  There was a cameo appearance by an enormous lizard who stopped by just to watch Miranda Esmonde-White stretch.  At one point it looked like the lizard was doing some of the moves.

Classic!

[geezerette]

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@just bee wrote:

Looking at A-words.

Abstinence?

Austere?

Adaptable?

Active?

Aesthetic?

Assurgent?

Assuring?

Attainable?

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I need to follow several of those suggestions.  But in my case, at this point “Adaptable” is what I personally need to learn to do.

Problem is, I don’t want to adapt.  I want it all my way.😝