May 16th, 2008

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Type and Dream

Friday, May 16th, 2008

I have really enjoyed my job today.  I cannot explain it, but a part of me has been restored.  I’ll stop with that thought.  It takes knowing all the ins and outs of where I’ve been and what we’ve been through to understand.

The sunlight coming into my office window was just the right amount this morning.  Not too bright.  Just enough to boost my sense of well being.  I don’t like getting a tan, but I do enjoy being outside and getting indirect sunlight.  I’m too fair to be trying to tan!

I take two 15-minute breaks and a half-hour lunch on each 8-1/2-hour work day.  It is so nice to be able to step out into the garden during those times.  I was starving during my first break, having skipped breakfast to continue on a little longer with my green tea, so I ate voraciously during my first break! 

During my lunch, I actually potted up a pale pink petunia.  Miss Petunia was quite the match for a worn-out enamelware pot.  The pot was what I’d been using to collect food scraps by the kitchen sink for years.  A hole finally wore into the bottom of it.  It’s a planter now.

The view from the steps where I ate my lunch is, of course, my little garden.  It’s amazing how quickly this bed is filling in and becoming a little mini-jungle.  I remember when it was mostly bare mulch in the center. 

And the wild grapevine on this thing just gets bigger and bigger.  I must get some traps for controlling Japanese beetles that will soon arrive to shred its leaves.

This red rose was all wet with rain and beautiful this morning. 

And this very young astilbe plant seems to be thriving.  I can’t wait to see it in 2 or 3 years.

The chocolate mint — rising up behind the old sundial — is quietly creeping out of its original little plot.  Lucky for chocolate mint that I like it.  I’m sure by this summer I’ll be pulling out huge armfuls of it.  And then again next spring, Lord willing, I’ll be glad to see the chocolate mint proliferating again.  It’s a yearly cycle that chocolate mint and I go through.

As far as my title, “type and dream,” it’s truly an exercise of the mind to be able to stay put for 8 hours.  It’s good for a person to think, and 8 hours is a lot of thinking.

I must be off to bed.  Tomorrow is a medical transcription day!

Lynn

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