![]() ![]() I got it just before we left for England. ![]() So, back on the cleaning front, besides closet clean-out, I’ve been reading and filing my piles and piles of saved paperwork, from Christmas cards to sweetest emails from my dad, months-old letters (so behind), and saved artwork (reading all of it has actually been quite a nice thing to do, luv-lee letters and cards from many of you) ~ which leads me to send a shout out to “Sarah W.” who wrote me the most charming letter last April, signed-off with “Bread and Butter,” and her name. and the mournful cries from the wood pigeons with bad toes.□ I can pretend I’m in the English countryside and waking up. Otherworldly magical faraway dreamy MUSICA fit for a Princess. I think my sleep is deeper now because a. I sleep much better in England where I’m further from my responsibilities. ![]() I had a bad habit of waking myself at 3 or 4 in the morning only getting 5 or 6 hours of sleep each night. and you’ll find you CAN go home again! There’s a free app you can put on your phone! I turn on my SCALA radio station in London, luv-lee classical musica I fell in love with when we were over there, all of it with an English accent, and put on my phone timer for one hour so it will turn off by itself, and that is how I’ve been falling asleep! And sleeping a delicious eight hours! Unheard of for me for a very long time. ![]() See all those little green lights over the UK and France? Each one of them is a radio station! This website shows lights from every corner of the world. I can not tell you how happy I am! 2023 has been very good to me so far!Īnother thing making these long winter nights so cozy is Radio Garden! Remember that? I wrote about it once before, it’s the website. Pure unadulterated torture! I do not know how I took it for so long.□ PLUS, he added a very long shelf! I’m beside myself with joy! So now, we’re sleeping in a closet! I close my eyes at night, snuggled under down comforters, saying goodnight to my clothes. All this time they’ve been in five different tiny closets located throughout the house. You’ll notice it’s in our bedroom, and open to the room (no doors on the closet, you open the door to the bedroom, and voila, you find a walk-in closet with a bed in it!), once he puts the pole up I will, for the first time since we moved here in 1989, have all my tops, skirts, pants, and jackets in one place. While repainting the upstairs floors and ceilings and some of the walls, Joe built me a “closet!”□□□ That perfect little indentation has always been there, used to have a hutch in it. But, I’ve put my paint brushes away for now… because my house (which my heart doth know) is saying, “Susan, where are you, we neeeeeeed you! I loved painting the Queen, memorializing her, and our wonderful trip last year where we celebrated her Platinum Jubilee. sometimes they last us a while and sometimes they go very quickly! All three are due to leave England by ship at the end of April…something ELSE to look forward to in the spring!□ Be sure to place your order so you get one. There will be 3 cups, two large (16 oz): Queen Elizabeth and Santa the Birthday cup is smaller, 11oz. Īnd as of this moment, they are up for Presale!□ And the new cups are off being made in England. Clearing the path for everything else on my remarkably obnoxious list! I have mother-creativity tapping on my back, making me want to be in the Studio MAKING something, but Daddy Practicality is saying, you can’t do any of it until you get your work done! Yes! First off, the new 2024 calendars are finished and gone to the printer. I mean, check it out! The downstairs bathroom drawer, for the first time, I can find things quickly!! Little box-bottoms have finally organized me! Every time I open it, I smile. a little of this, little of that, trying to make hay while the sun is not shining!□ĭespite everything, these days, my heart doth know organization. How are you all doing so far in 2023? How is your heart? Here I am again. And wildflowers from the English Countryside.□ And gratitude. I keep trying to end the list but my list does not end! The heart doth know diaries too. It doth know so very much: Love, beauty, creativity, curiosity, long walks, books, art, home, furry warm petty pet(s), cozy bed, long sleep, hugs, laughter, a perfect Old Fashioned, a starched curtain, truth, shadows, peace, and beautiful MUSICA! It even knows heartbreak and healing. ![]()
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