Thursday, September 18, 2008

We are on the other side....of Summer

We are over the hump! We made it through another Summer. We have been having cool mornings and almost cool evenings. Nice.

I was just sitting on my back porch and thinking about you. I have not had anything to share for several days. I have been busy working on a sweater I am going to name: IMAGINATION GONE AMUCK. I have a large wicker basket into which I throw various balls of yarn left after finishing projects and I decided to make a crocheted sweater out of those many colors. It makes me thing of Joseph's Coat of Many Colors or Dolly Parton's coat of the same name. I have had so much fun with it, it is a riot of colors. When one ball of yarn runs out, I simply attach another color, helter skelter. I will take a picture and share it when it is finished. I have enough (more than enough) to make another one and may do that very thing.

While sitting on my back porch thinking of you, I was listening to people come home from work. Living on a dirt, washboard road, I first hear a rumble. Makes me think of the song, "Wabash Cannonball" I hear the melody in my head. I believe the first line of the song goes, "Listen to the whistle, the rumble and the roar". I hear those, mostly pickups, coming nearer and then I can see them over the Creosote bushes and cactus. There are a greater percentage of pickup truck out here than than auto's. It is so nice to think that I also am on the other side of the hump. I don't have to do that commute and seldom ever have to have done it. I have been blessed with a husband who, through God, has allowed me to stay home and just be a home maker. I have always and always will love that title. Home maker. That is me!

1 comment:

Charlotte said...

Hi Connie,
I thought sure you had gone on another vacation. In fact, I just told Clif tonight you must have gone to Tennessee. So, I was a little surprised that you have been right there all the time just knittin' away. I think it's fun to create something just "willy nilly". I know what you mean about staying home and being a homemaker. That's me too. All the time I've been married the only time I worked was the 10 years I worked at LHCC as secretary, and that was more fun than work. I remember hearing that
Cannonball song back as far as I can remember. That's an oldie.