Friday 9302011 wv

The things a girl has to do to go pee. Put on my galoshes, grab an umbrella and slosh out to the bathhouse. It's been raining for hours and it's cold, well relatively, low 50's I'd say maybe lower. Need to get a thermometer. We've turned on the car and read the outside temp for perspective a few times.

Dan and Tom are up on the ridge at Dan Brindo's, or northern Dan as we say. It's the final Drink and Plink party. Well, Dan's got a wide porch and a nice warm house to recover in. I suspect there's a bit of moonshine and some other drinkin to go with it, part of the party. Our sweet boy with a trumpet pic leaves this world tonight. Sayonara with a smile I say.

Good thing we burned the bonfire last night. It was just Dan and Tom and I but seemed the right time. Have to go by the weather when you're living mostly outdoors. It was a beautiful fire. And all the brush from the trimmed autumn olives went up with a rosy flame high into the sky. We sat out staring at the fire and up at the stars. I love it. Both of us smelled like wood smoke in the bed. Suppose you'd get tired of that after a while, but not yet.

Had some patches of sun as this cold front blew in and Suki got her ride home bath. Weather changed quickly and I felt sorry for leaving her on the porch so cold when we went into Elizabeth. She and I are in the front room all warm and cozy now. I watched the new version of True Grit, pretty good. I do like a happier ending though, but I guess it's more artistic when it's truer to life. I'll have to go back and see the original sometime.

We leave in two days. All this rain and cold, guess it's time. I never got to half what I had in mind though. Writing songs, practicing some piano. I did put some time in on the harp though. That and did a stack of NY Times Crossword Puzzles.Read some good books too, Machine Dreams Jayne Anne Phillips, Drown- Junot Diaz. Listened to The Lock Artist and The Help too, both really good. Why I find the puzzles so relaxing I don't know, I've never finished one, though I 've come close a few times. I have the answers to some – maybe I'll learn something.

Fortunately I love what I do in Key West. I'm sure once I get over the shock of my busy schedule that I'll be glad to be there. I do have some really great jobs, I'm a very lucky girl . I always miss being outside though. Maybe I can figure out how to outwit those backyard mosquitos and spend more time. Could be I'll figure that into the renovation of the front room. Maybe a screened porch off that room? Well, can't come true if you don't dream it. Look at what happened here.