Friday, December 13, 2013

Old Age Day by Day December 13, 2013

Hummm.  Friday the 13th.  And it's a dreary morning, too.  Gray and gloomy, cold and no rain.  I have my space heater in the studio up full tilt.  I do have a room of my own, thank you very much Virginia Woolf.  I first had my own room when I put the two boys in bunk beds and deprived my toddler son of his room.  Then I went through seven years in Colorado without a space, writing in our family room cum bedroom.  Then one year back here before the older son went to college and I appropriated his room, but had my desk in our bedroom.  Then we moved here twenty years ago and I grabbed the tool shed out back.  It had two broken refrigerators in it, was painted six colors and had a dark room.  We hauled my desk out and I set up shop.  About fifteen years ago we had the shed redone, with a half bath, bookshelves lining the walls, and two young guys built me a beautiful desk, so I got rid of the one from a warehouse that my dad had found for me.  I have my own hut, hideaway, studio, shed.  I'm a lucky lady.

I also sew out here, and the table is strewn with material, thread, a sewing machine and all the half done projects with my foster granddaughter.  I love it!  I had to get rid of my mother's cabinet Singer sewing machine, and bought a portable at Target, which sits at the end of my table at all times.  So first Dad's desk, then Mom's sewing machine.  I hope people are using them and enjoying them.  Time moves on, and things move to new lives and stories.  I like that.

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