Though there won’t be time Wednesday for me to go out shooting photos, you can still get one of 14,000 things to be happy about from this book:
by giving me a page number from 1 to 612 and another number between 1 and 30. You know you want to.
The gas man fixed the gas leak on the meter behind the house. The dogs survived the presence of a stranger on The Compound (though not without a lot of complaining). And none of my photos are turning out all that great (the ones of Lindsey’s hair disaster are too dark for you to actually see her hair or anything else except her pretty face, which sort of defeats the purpose, because when doesn’t Lindsey look great in photos?), and Tim posted a photo of his newly cut hair here. Does that bring us up to speed?
I do owe Marika and Mark a post. But right now, I think they’d rather I finish co-editing a certain manuscript full of romantic short stories. In fact, I know they would.
The hair’s really the same, just back to the length I like, but I give you this because everyone should show off a photo in which she looks like she just bit into a crab apple.
no 367 no 10 please!
“oceanfront dining rooms”
I like that length. Bet it’s got killer swing. You look great, Becky! : )
Can I have page 400, item #1, please?
P.S. Can’t believe I forgot to mention your glasses (I like them)! Too fixated on your hair, I reckon. : )
Merci for all the compliments. =)
::kisses fingertips::
Trés jolie!
“bringing a bowl of berries to bed”
Thank you. Not bad. : )
page 301 number 4 for Dashly and 217 number 23 for me …
And do not presume what I would prefer you to do with your time, I wait anxiously to see what your book is. BUT, I do konow that one day you will be looking at PK, and I know this is important to other people I dig, so I will put them first … this once.
Dash is getting:
“personal investigation and experimentation”
Marika is getting very sleepy. She will prefer what I say she prefers, mwa ha ha.:
“cast parties”
BOTH TRUE… * yawn*
Suddenly I feel like a Disney villainess.
And I like it.
What’s this? A spinning wheel in the corner of the attic? I think I will ram my finger on the needle even though it looks sharp and an evil fairy fortold that I would prick my finger on a spinning wheel and DIE…
It’s a good thing Aurora looks all stoned when she’s heading for that spinning wheel, because otherwise, we’d just think she was really, really dumb.
I like the hair and the glasses!
Page 426, number 18, please.
Thank you!
“crayon-striped sheets”
oh yes, cute hair!
i need pg 55, number 29…i’ve exceptionally irritable today, so a bit of happiness would be terrific.
Thank you for your kind words. I hope you’re feeling better, and that this will help:
“two friendly chicken appliques on a plump cotton toss pillow”
ha! that *is* terrific!
I like the length. It looks good on you. 🙂
Page 123, # 7, if you please.
Thank you, Mr. Puterbaugh.
“climbing a tall white pine tree”
(And though the tree is different, I command you to find, read, and enjoy a copy of Robert Frost’s “Birches.” Now that I’ve found I have no power over Marika, I’m testing to see if I have any anywhere. I’m betting not. Unless you already like to read Robert Frost.)
WHEN I see birches bend to left and right
Across the line of straighter darker trees,
I like to think some boy’s been swinging them.
But swinging doesn’t bend them down to stay.
Ice-storms do that. Often you must have seen them
Loaded with ice a sunny winter morning
After a rain. They click upon themselves
As the breeze rises, and turn many-colored
As the stir cracks and crazes their enamel.
Soon the sun’s warmth makes them shed crystal shells
Shattering and avalanching on the snow-crust—
Such heaps of broken glass to sweep away
You’d think the inner dome of heaven had fallen.
Wow.
=)
Page 247 #28
“fireplaces with mammoth andirons”
(And may you have no need of fireplaces until next winter.)
I dunno…it got down to 34 here last night. LOL
Then may you always have the heat of a fireplace when you need it. (Brrrrr.)
Why, thank you, m’am!!
I’m hoping that’s th elast cold one for spring. It’s headed toward 70 now.
Is everyone affiliated with The Compound required to get their hair cut at the same time? This sounds rather FLDS-ish to me. Are there teen pregnancies and unibrows going on as well???
No teen pregnancies or unibrows, but as soon as he stops resisting the notion, I think Tim–especially with his beard–will look quite striking in one of those cult dresses.
You asked for nothing from the book of happiness, so I randomly chose for you:
“Scott, 35, Chicago”
(laughing hysterically)
1. Love the hair.
2. REALLY love the glasses.
3. Page 169, number 13.
Thank you. You’re too kind. =)
“Indian-chief haircuts”
I have no idea what that means.
Yeah, that makes two of us. If I told the stylist that’s what I want, I wonder what I’d end up with….
G-L-A-M-O-R-O-U-S….
page 376, number 2.
Thank you!
“moving into town from the suburbs”
(Right!)
Given how I feel about suburbs…
Thanks for the photos . . . crab apple or not, it’s a nice length and really suits you!
Tim looks great (much better short in my humble opinion!!).
Can I have another play at the book thing? 333 and 3.
Thanks!
Thank you so much. =)
“trunk lunches”
The third time someone has gotten this. Check out this link, which makes me want to do this so much!
Ah yes . . . picnics in the summer time.
With all those “trunks”, though, you’d need several people to haul them for you!!