Getting Caught Up.

I have been enjoying my summer vacation. Nothing really to take pictures of, I have been de-cluttering and deep cleaning. Its been six years since we moved here in July. I still had boxes that I had not unpacked. It was just too painful to look in them. I knew what was in them. Memories. I run from those.

Too many memories. I didn't have the strength to deal with them. My daughter made a comment of the things she dreaded to do if something happened to me. It made me start thinking. I knew it was time for me to deal with those boxes. I had to harden my heart and do it one box at a time. I have so many boxes of photographs. My goodness.
 

One of the things I did was go through the boxes of my I guess you would call my portfolio of past rugs.

My goodness, when I was selling all of my rugs, I sold some cute rugs. I thought it might be fun to go back and rehook those that I don't have anymore. I was surprised how many rugs were of my own design. I ended up thinking about why and when I stopped doing that. The only cupboard I haven't taken a good look at is my rug cupboard. I really need to deal with that one. I go through it every season when I change out rugs for the house. So I do get into it more than the other ones. I also am always checking to make sure moths don't find it. I have this fear that all of this work I have done will end up at Good Will.  I have boxes of counted cross stitch things I have never done anything with. Finished ones, except not framed or turned into cute things. If it means sewing. 

Not much else is going on, just me trying to get things cleaned and ordered. So far, this May has been just perfect weather. I am sure that it will change but its just been such a nice month. 

I used to do a Thankful Thursday post, in my ancient blogging days. I think on this Thursday I am thankful for JOY. I can't wait to wake up every morning to see what kind of special gifts are around every corner for me. 

~"My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth." Psalm 121:2

I hope your day is lovely too.

~Kim~
 

Back Home

 We are back home again. It was a lovely time, but always so wonderful to get back home. We did so much exploring this trip. We saw things that we have never saw before. The little town this was in is called Los Osos. This was a hike we were going to take, but the ticks were too bad and we didn't want to chance it with Polly, plus I hate ticks! This picture above is at Black Mountain.

We found this lovely little walk in a place called Elfin Forest. Its at the end of a neighborhood. If I lived there I would come here every day. 

It gets its name from these oak trees. They only grow here and they are so old but so interesting. So we walked and walked there and did this walk twice. It smelled like sagebrush. There are tidal marshes on the other side and its a bird sanctuary. 

I couldn't help but call it the dead marshes after Lord of The Rings. I could see in my mind all of those faces that Frodo sees in the movie. I had to turn off the video in my mind every time I looked down at it. On the other side is the ocean so it would be interesting to see what it does in a storm. 

As we were driving through the town, we ran across this adorable house. I love the fence.
 

All the way around it the fence had tulips. We drove around it to see it and we found this on one street. 

It had a windmill on the outside of the house. It was really very Dutch. I wished I could have walked around it. 

That was the cutest house I have ever seen before. The streets were all up and down hill. It was so fun to find it. 

Then we drove out to Montana De Oro. There was this lovely farm house, which like everything now is being owned by the park service. But at one time was a family owned farm. One of the first settlers in the area. Now its a gift shop.
 

I thought it was such a sweet little farm house. What an incredible place it must have been to grow up at.

But then the view from the other side of the house was incredible. Imagine waking up every day to see this.

It was lovely to stand there and see how pretty everything looked and maybe hasn't changed to much.

My brain feels so rested and so happy to be home. We planted flowers today and it was so nice to have work to do. I think that is the problem with me and vacation. I think I just enjoy work. It was nice though to have no work except walking Polly and seeing if I could try and sew and hook and read all of the stuff I brought to do. I couldn't. 

I hope if you celebrate Mother's Day its a lovely one. 

~Kim~