The View From Here/Up For This Week

The View From Here


Overcast, and occasional glimpses of blue, that sometimes seep out and colonize the white-gray. Mirrored, indoors, by our ceiling project! Phil has covered the homey, warm cedar tongue-and-groove ceiling with sky-blue insulating board, and we're now in the process of covering up that sky with further insulative muslin!

We took a hike on the beach just now - shorter than yesterday's because I'm fatigued, but not short on beautiful views - here is the bay where Phil (and I too) love to play:

And here's Phil, who just can't keep a straight face!

(At that point, I lost access to the internet at the laundromat, where I was hanging out. So now I am at Safeway, praying that I haven't lost my morning's translation work (it has to be uploaded and is prone to crashing and losing your work if interrupted in any way!)

There are so many beautiful rocks to be found on the beach - I have to restrain myself. Here are three special ones from today, though: the big one is special just because it's such an unusual shape - obviously hasn't been rolling around in the waves for very long, it has far too many angles. And then there's a cute little agate, and the striped one was irresistible too:

They are resting on my wool scarf, which I'm still wearing here in July (although when we're walking with the wind behind us, or have been walking for some time, it gets to be too warm).

Up For This Week

This week, I want to calm down! I want to find the way back to feeling good about what I'm doing, and not feeling like I'm in a desperate rush all the time. Probably, getting the ceiling covered will help with this, because then we can put the cabin back into some kind of order - everything is upside down, out of place and dirty from dust being knocked onto it at the moment! I'm generally very tolerant of clutter and mess, but this has been tough. And of course, it's tough for Phil too and we resonate.

So, if my blogging can help with that in any way, that's what I want to do here this week!

As always, I'd love to hear from anyone who wishes to chip in with advice and suggestions.