The blue warp is half woven. I like to keep after a set of bobbins until finished, but this week is busy, and interesting. First, lunch with Beth and Ruth yesterday. I certainly cannot say I'm the best mother she ever had, but Ruth definitely is the best mother-in-law. How I love her.
Ruth is shorter than I, if that's possible, and does not like tall tables. Nevertheless, she made it up, and Beth appeared and we all had a nice lunch. Then the charge slip Ruth was filling in fluttered to the ground, and under my seat, apparently. I could not see it. Beth had left.
"Give me your cane" came from across the table, and I did.
The errant slip was secured, until she asked a passing busser to retrieve it. What do we call buss boys these days?
As long as I'm in a tattling mood, Beth, my oldest, commenced going grey in her teens. She dyed the offending strands commencing in high school, and we seldom saw her beautiful real hair, except when she was pregnant. Then, of course, all my old friends and I had to run our fingers through it, and beg her to keep it.
The last time I saw Ruth, I realized she has used the "lock-down" to stop staying blond and reveal pure silver hair. Through and through. Beautiful. When I had lunch with Beth a month ago, I wondered if she were back to silver hair, too. She said NO.
I am so glad that you had that lunch. A lunch with a trio of special women.
ReplyDeleteMy hair is increasingly more salt than pepper. I like Beth's hair. A lot. Some time back a woman in a shopping centre asked me who coloured my hair. She was indignant and totally (aggressively) disbelieving when I told her that nature did the job.
Beth's hair looks cool - the color of your purple towels!? I like it!
ReplyDeleteGlad you solved the dark hallway problem - we don't need any more falls in blogland! Stay safe!
What a fun lunch you had! I agree with Ruth about tall tables. I am very short as well and I prefer that my feet hit the floor. Beth does have beautiful hair in that picture. Of course your granddaughter in the picture is adorable. I stopped coloring my hair when I retired and I have never regretted it.
ReplyDeleteYou had a brilliant solution for the dark hall. Let us know how it works out. I understand walking at night and giving cat warnings at the same time!
I don't think cats understand that humans are blind at night - they, of course, don't have that handicap. I do the slide-foot-shuffle if I have to walk in the dark and know the cats might be around. I'm glad you're getting a light, because that's a much better solution :)
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful lunch with the ladies. I came home from the nursing home to discover my hair was mostly grey. Does Toby stay out of your way. We use a lamp that I found at an estate sale. A cat with a light behind him. It works well.
ReplyDeleteI like your daughter's hair. There was a lady at the church we used to go to that had blue highlights. I thought that would be cool to put color into my graying hair. Glad you had a delightful lunch with Beth and Ruth! I too don't like tall tables. They are definitely for the young, something I no longer arm.
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I also dislike tall tables and love the hair! One of these days I need to let my hair go gray. I thought it might be during the pandemic but I'm already dealing with too many changes and emotions. Glad you got out with your loved ones!
ReplyDeleteI think those tall chairs are miserably uncomfortable. I have knee problems and while my legs are in the position required for those chairs, somehow my knee joints seem to come unhinged, and I can barely walk after I manage to slide down and off of the chair. I don't know who had the bright idea of those tall chairs and tables, I will no longer go to a restaurant that has them.
ReplyDeleteLunch with the girls sounds like it was a good time. I have to literally climb to sit on those tall stools ... they're not comfortable and I'm always afraid I will tip over and fall. Wondering why the builder didn't put any electrical outlets in your hallway. Glad you came up with a solution. I count footsteps...lol ... truly -- knowing how many steps to a certain point in the room before I have to turn to access the short hall to our bedroom.
ReplyDeleteHow wonderful to be out with the others for a nice lunch. It is such a rare event these days.
ReplyDeleteThe cat is great company, especially during these Covid times.
The purple hair looks pretty fun! I'm going gray these days. There's enough dirty blonde to cover up most of the strands. I don't know if I will ever dye it.
ReplyDeleteSeeing your granddaughter munching on watermelon made me smile. What a sweet photo.
A battery powered motion sensor light -- brilliant solution!
ReplyDeleteThat sounds like a fun lunch, and good idea to solve your lighting problems.
ReplyDeleteI hear ya! Sight in the dark is a big problem.
ReplyDeleteWould it not be simpler to just use a torch? Keep a tiny one in your pocket. The motion sensor light does sound good, but how close does the motion have to be before it lights up?
ReplyDeleteThe hall begins exactly where the kitchen light switch turns off all the lights. It's perfect.
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ReplyDeleteWhat a fun post today, Joanne - simple things of everyday life, as they need to be. YAM xx
It's great you were able to get out and have lunch. How I miss those times. We just started a new round of lockdown restrictions.
ReplyDeleteThere's no way I can hitch myself up to get on one of those higher chairs!
ReplyDeleteThe motion sensor light is a good plan - should save a nasty fall in the dark
Good to get out!
ReplyDeleteThat is lovely hair..reminds me of the poem "When I am old I shall wear purple"!
Away with the blue rinse brigade!!
You can get battery lights with a switch that works remotely by Blue Tooth or radio. Wouldn't it be better to get a proper one wired in? Re tall tables, I know what she means. I am six foot three and I still HATE tall tables. All restaurants seem to have tables about six inches too high and chairs which are six inches too low. It is like eating during a job interview for an authoritarian company.
ReplyDeleteA real outlet would be nice, but management isn't up to it, and I'm through spending my money to make this place right. Except the mandevillas and a flower for pig.
DeleteI an understand why going gray at such a young age would be traumatic, like those fellows who go bald so young. Nowadays, shaved heads are not unusual, so that it the option for the guys.
ReplyDeleteMaybe you can weave some towels and send them to Mar-a-lago on condition that Trump will move there and use them. I wonder if he is really grey beneath that pumpkin detritus on his head?
ReplyDeleteI once asked my mom's second husband when he started going grey, as grey hair was all I'd ever seen on him. He said, "Age 6." I know he was kidding. Or was he? He's the father of of my three half sisters and none of them started going grey early. Instead, it was I who led the way, starting at about age 30. Heredity is mysterious.
ReplyDeleteHow I wish my hair would turn silver! It's just brown/gray. Funny how we always want the sort of hair that isn't ours!
ReplyDeleteSo glad you figured out your light situation! Could you not just leave a light on in the bedroom earlier so that it shines into the hallway or is it not set up like that? But it sounds like your new light will be gorgeous and perhaps your dreams will be more colorful when it's set up.
That works perfectly, if I remember to go turn on the bedroom light before 4-30. And most often I turn out the living room light when it's time to go to bed, and find myself standing in total darkness. It's all too complicated a sequence to master.
DeleteBeth's hair is beautiful. I'm glad you enjoyed your lunch.
ReplyDeleteMy hair has been as is. Nearly down to my waist now. Dark brown at the ends grey in the middle. White at the edges. A strange brew, much remarked on.
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Sounds like a very nice day and a good thought for a hallway light. I need a couple such things for outside - the walkway up to the house.
ReplyDeleteMy son outfitted our house with lights that respond to Alexa. All we have to do is tell her to turn on/off lights in a particular room and voila... she happily complies.
ReplyDeleteIsn't it strange how a little thing like simply having a meal together has become such a marvelous treat? I don't ever remember savoring the time with friends as I do in these strange times.
ReplyDeleteBeth reminds me of my late oldest sister who swore her hair would never be gray. We'd never know what color it was going to be, but it was never gray!
ReplyDeleteI do love silver hair, Joanne - it is so becoming (if you wear the right colours with it).
ReplyDeleteMy hairdresser refused from the very first moment to dye it, and thus it looks healthy and shiny.
my hair is stubbornly resisting turning gray though there are more and more strands, from a distance it still looks dark. daughter got in the car for yoga with vibrant pink and blue hair with a shock of red. I wish my hair was blond (like sister and daughter) so I could do that but I'd have to bleach it first and I don't want to do that. sister tells me that if my hair would just turn gray, I could.
ReplyDeleteHow lovely, lunch with friends! A real treat these days!
ReplyDeleteWhen my gr-daughters were 5, I had let my hair go grey. They told me I looked "way old, older than a house". So the gray is gone.
ReplyDeleteNice that you had a wonderful lunch. Stay safe, Joanne, and glad to hear you found a solution.
ReplyDeleteGood to see you are still blogging and doing okay. I need to catch up with what you have been doing. My hair is totally grey now. I quit coloring it when my husband was sick and it was too hard to make it to the salon. He has now been gone six years.
ReplyDeleteI still haven't gone grey at the age of 73, which is extraordinary. My father went grey in his fifties. It's funny how a man with grey hair is seen as "distinguished", while a woman with grey hair is so often seen as "old and past it".
ReplyDeletemotion sensors - one of good things from technology. Also good use of your cane.
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