Here I am reporting in about my week.
Spring is continuing to Spring. We are enjoying the bulbs and blossoms of the city.
Yesterday we had a long awaited event. We finally received our thermal blinds for our bedroom!! Now we won’t be boiled alive both Winter and Summer. We bought double honeycomb top down/bottom up blinds. So we can also open them at the top for privacy from the ground without sacrificing light. We have found this feature surprisingly handy as we can make fake clerestory windows while still blocking out the radiant heat from the direct sun. Here is Cris modelling his work station. You can see how much sun comes in. Of course that means no need for heating in Winter. Oh yeah!
This week I started to get a little annoyed at myself for not finding anything substantial to get my teeth into. I have this large chunk of time set aside, so surely I should use it for a larger project. But I just couldn’t think of anything, until Cris mentioned my erstwhile poetry book I had started a while back. Unfortunately this was not appealing as it just means organising and rearranging, not writing poems, which is the fun part. It seemed like more of what I was trying to get away from. Doing boring work.
But the more I thought about it, the more I realised that in the long run I will be proud of my book and glad I set the time aside.
So that is what I’ve done for two days this week. Taking time to sit with my phone and transfer my old poems into different folders of Evernote to start sorting which would go well together. It has been a fun project, rereading my work.
Surprisingly I discovered a few poems about enjoying being in the hustle and bustle of the city, which expresses how I feel living here, written before this place was even thought of. I didn’t pay attention at the time and let it slide, but now enjoying this space so much, I’m surprised I didn’t know this about myself when I even gave myself clues in my poetry!
Speaking of poetry, I wrote this little ditty yesterday.
Piers floating on water
Like magic carpets rolled out
To enable those of us
Who are not Jesus
To experience the miracle
Of not falling in
11/9/20
During my walk along the lake foreshore I heard a beautiful bird calling goodnight. I include a small snippet in a video for you to join in. https://youtu.be/C05qyw9drr0 Excuse my ignorance but what bird is that?
Til next time,
Keep on creating!
Lots of love,
Jazzy Jack
Nice report. Thanks. And it's important to be able to adjust our environment (e.g., with blinds) to be comfortable in changing weather. Good for you.
ReplyDeleteGlad you're enjoying immersion in Poetry. Window coverings to adjust temperature and light are so important in the Desert too, I Love the Plantation Shutters this Home came with. I never had them before and they are wonderful, compared to what I'd always had in other Homes they are far superior and attractive too. The Blossoms of the City look sublime!
ReplyDeleteShutters are the best. We installed them in our previous house. Sooo easy to use and maintain. Unfortunately our plate glass room sized window in our bedroom is too big and nowhere to swing them. Otherwise that would totally be our choice this time!
DeleteEnjoy yours.
Love, JJ