16 months. That's how long we've been living in this house. And that's how long it took mom to FINALLY get all of her pictures and artwork hung up. (Fair warning: we are going to delve deep into mom's psyche in this post.) There are several reasons why it took 16 months to get everything up. For a long, long time, mom's favorite colors for the house were oranges and yellows. So all of her art was oranges and yellows. But, slowly, her taste shifted to more blues, greens and purples. So when we moved into this house, there was lots of room for blues and greens but she didn't really know what to do with her yellows and oranges and so she did what any normal human would do and let the art sit in a stack on the floor in the guest room for all of our guests to walk around and step over when they came to visit. Well. Around comes the new year 2017 and rather than make resolutions, mom picks a word for the year. This year's word is ACTION!!!! So that apparently means, getting orange and yellow art work up and off the floor and onto the walls. And that's how she spent her Saturday. And it turns that it looks just fine. And our guests will thank us. Really. (It was bad.)
On Saturday, we started my official, private pitching lessons. Dad did a nice job getting to me where I am now but I'm having mechanical issues that are beyond his expertise so I am now working with my regular season softball coach. You all know Coach Trish. She's super cool, super supportive and she pitched in college. She's done private coaching before but maybe we should have asked how many of her girls got college scholarships. Just sayin'. Anyway, it was a very frustrating session for me because I've moved up to a bigger ball and a longer distance between the mound and the plate. You combine that with changes to my mechanics and there were a few tears shed. This is the first time I've had someone stand right next to me and tell me EVERY SINGLE TIME that I need to stand up straight. It will all be good in the end. Right? I have some drills to work on twice a week and then lessons on Saturday. I'll let you know how it goes.
After that on Saturday, dad and I got to cleaning out my fish tank. It's a small salt water tank but, boy, is it an effort to clean it. First you have get enough distilled water to fill a holding tank, then let that come up to 78 degrees which takes a day. Then you have transfer all of my fishies and crabs and snails into that tank and get the water emptied from the big tank using a hose and suction and gravity somehow and not spill any water on the carpet. Then you have lug this huge tank outside and rinse the whole thing out, sand, rocks, the whole shebang. Then you drag it all back inside and fill it with more water, make sure the pH and salt balance are good, wait for it to warm up and then you can put the fish back in. But wait. You aren't done yet because now, you have to clean and put away the holding tank. It was a long process but the tank needed it and it looks so nice now and the all my sea creatures are happy campers. I helped a little but probably not as much as I should have considering it's my tank.
So after all that ACTION!!!!! we were kind of tired on Sunday and it was a really good day to be tired. It started raining about 2AM and has been rainy and cold all day. It was a high of 49 at our house. It was a perfect day for laying around and doing nothing. We all spent most of the day in various degrees of reclining....
Here is mom reclining on the couch, reading a book, wrapped in a Great Grandma Walker made blanket....
We did all manage to stand up for a bit when Grandpa Vern stopped by but it was a challenge so we headed back to our respective positions once he left.
It was a good day.
Hope everyone has a wonderful week and be looking for more ACTION!!!! items in the coming year!
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