Thursday Tidbits
Posted on July 3, 2014 under Thursday Tidbits with no comments yet
181 Days of Gratitude
This is what 181 days of gratitude looks like. Every single day since Jan.1st. of this year, I have taken a few moments to write something that happened that day for which I was grateful. It could be as simple as putting my feet on the floor in the morning to scarfing down a piece of M.F.’s world class lemon meringue pie. What are you grateful for today?
It was a terrific long weekend with warm, sunny days. Great weather for the beach, the pool and for Canada Day festivities. And speaking of Canada Day, we had to take a pass on the pancake breakfast that morning. We would have loved to have gone to the Legion and hoed in to some pancakes topped with maple syrup. And why weren’t we able to drag our sorry asses down to Main Street? Because we had a house showing at noon on July 1st.! We found out the day before and had to roll up our sleeves early on Canada Day to get the house ready.
In story telling, you need to have what is known as “context.” In other words, sometimes you need a little backgrounder in order to understand the story. To truly appreciate the subtleties of the next story, please go back and read “Hide and Seek.” If you’re not familiar with my sight, just go to the home page and enter the title in the search bar.
I was up at my usual time ( 5:30 ish ) and started my part of the staging “drill” by cleaning the kitchen and hiding everything. By the time my wife and granddaughter got up, I was ready to start the vacuuming. Only one minor problem. We couldn’t find the vacuum cleaner. I can understand misplacing a ring or even a cell phone but a vacuum cleaner? We looked everywhere and I mean everywhere. I even private messaged a painter who had been doing some work at our house.
We like this particular model as it is a “stick model.” It is light weight and easy to manoeuver. We have an older model which is big and clunky. I was just about to start in with the older model when I heard a giggle from upstairs followed by Betty’s tell tale hysterical laugh. I must leave you in suspense until the story gets published next week. Please feel free to guess all you want. The story is called “ Taken to the Cleaners” and will appear next week. Might even be a Casket story.
This Saturday, I will be publishing a story that appeared in last week’s Cape Breton Star called “ No Cake Walk.” It’s the tale of a trip I took to Iona a few years ago to deliver a three tiered wedding cake. When I look back, I think that was when my hair officially started falling out.
The rabbit story is in the final edit stage. “ A Hare Raising Experience” is Phoebe’s story and how she passed through a few set of owners before settling in with the current owners who keep the rabbit ( wait for this )…. in the bathroom.
It’s shaping up to be a nasty weekend but should be excellent story writing weather.
Have a great weekend and best of luck to Candace on her wedding day. Betty and I were married the day after a hurricane. We survived that storm ( and a few others along the way! ).
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