home

oh it feels good to be home.  after two weeks away we are taking our time settling back in and I think that now, after four days back, I've finally got a handle on the laundry and the car is nearly unpacked. the garden is slowly getting brought back to order as I weed and pull dead vines, pick and water, prune and preserve.  the kitchen has been a busy place.  we are taking the mornings slowly and it feels good.  I made a giant batch of granola and a decent size jar of cold brew decaf to quench my thirst for iced coffee.  there is a part of me that smiles at the sand in all of our belongings and thinks maybe I'll just go ahead and rent the house in Maine for a whole month next summer.  and another part of me that screams "no! don't ever leave again! especially not when the green beans and elderberries are at their prime!".  I am, mostly, a homebody.  but oh that house in Maine.  I'll share soon about our time away.  a week in an old house on a tidal cove in coastal Maine, and a handful of days along the jersey shore with family, with a couple other things squeezed in here and there.

right now though, wine and a good book while I listen to the raindrops falling out of the wind-stirred trees and the crickets singing loudly their fleeting summer song.