I am alone in my house for the first time in weeks.
It's been raining since about 4:00 pm today, it started, it stopped and then started again everytime I tried to leave the house to walk to the store.
Who cares, I have bowls of ice cold cherries, watermelon and cantaloupe, a pitcher of garden fresh ice mint tea and a lemon syrup.
They can wait for a new bag of crunchies.
I had a guest from Singapour via Morgantown, West Virginia who left this morning.
She was tall, thin and extremely elegant. As if Lucy suddenly became a person.
She's a poetess who just got her Masters in Creative Writing.
To hear her talk about demolition derbys and football games and pepperoni rolls, apparently the state food of West Virginia, was hilarious.
She had a beautiful accent reminincent of a 30's British movie star. She said it's her fake American accent.
I want one.
Meanwhile up in the attic was B. His new place around the corner wasn't available until yesterday so I said he was welcome to stay in the attic if he could make it work.
Several hours later it was clean and organized, he built a tent like structure from the piles of textiles I have stashed up there, bought an air conditioner and an air mattress.
I think somewhere in the swirl of activity he and Lucy got married, at least I hope so because she moved up there with him too.
I told the next two Airbnb guests he was my nephew.
I don't know why. I didn't know how else to explain why a man married to a cat was in the attic.
So now it's just the 3 of us. Gus is soaked from the rain, Lucy's sulking cause her man did her wrong and I'm missing my griller.
But tomorrow Carlos (another Carlos) arrives, this one from Miami and the next chapter unfolds.
Born to host.
xo J
PS. Gratuitous squirrel picture. I have never eaten a peach from my tree.
Public Enemy #1
Eventful days at Chez Jane's. Carlos from Miami might just be a Cuban.
ReplyDeleteSi, I think so. If so he will be my second. He's a music professor, looking forward to some good tunes.
DeleteHow I love reading about the life of an extrovert. Can you stand up in your attic? I wouldn't mind hiding up there married to Lucy and 'far from the madding crowd'!
ReplyDeleteYes you can, stand up that is. It peaks in the center leaving headroom on either side. It also has a wood floor and drywall so it sufficed.
DeleteAnd yes you can hide up in the attic with Lucy, though I don't think you would want to move far from the cool enchantment of the tent.
I want to book a room there! :) You and your home must have the best vibe. I know you do through this screen...it must tenfold in person. ♥
ReplyDeleteYou would be very welcome. And you wouldn't have to stay in the attic.
DeleteYou couldn't anyway, Shelly would be up there!
omg this made me laugh! xoxox
ReplyDeleteIt actually made me laugh too, while I was writing it. Only the second time that's happened.
DeleteYou are busy with good things is nice to read.
ReplyDeleteThank you for the cheery post that makes me smile
You're so welcome. Nice to get away from the gun store for a bit, yes?
DeleteThere's never a dull day in the small but charming house! :)
ReplyDeletexo
No there isn't. Though sometimes I long for one!
DeleteNever a dull moment for you. You meet the most interesting people. I didn't know squirrels ate peaches until I saw one pull one off our tree and run with it. We only got two to eat that year!
ReplyDeleteTwo more than I've ever gotten. Now I have an plastic squirrel that is supposed to scare them off. Freaked Gus out, not so sure about the squirrels tho....
DeleteSeems a good solution for explaining a man married to a cat, in your attic. ;)
ReplyDeleteRight> You wouldn't let that happen unless they were family, am I correct?
DeleteYou really should write a book :)
ReplyDeleteYou don't eat the peaches from your tree because the squirrels eat all of them or are the peaches not very good?
They have never left me one. And they pick them when they are still small and green then throw them away after a few bites. Duh, they're not ripe yet!
DeleteI wonder if the squirrels think the peaches are black walnuts? My parents had black walnut trees at the property kine. The walnuts have a green shell around them.
DeleteYou crack me up! But wait, who is coming to be your roommate? Not B? Your life is so exciting I get mixed up!
ReplyDeleteWell I'm booked with Airbnb through June, then the Swiss intern comes for 2 months, I'll reopen Airbnb in September thru October then and only then does B return as fully fledged roommate. No longer a glamper. But as he says, he's only 5 houses down and thru the alley so he's always on call. Thank God Lucy doesn't know where he lives...
ReplyDeleteThanks for the laugh,Jane, on this cold dark day.
ReplyDeleteSquirrels - tell me about them!!!! They can, and do, eat every nut from my very large walnut tree!
ReplyDeleteI read your exploits with amazement, am starting to wonder if I'm antisocial. Hope the new Carlos turns out well.
"They can wait for a new bag of crunchies"????? That's a very sloppy ship those cats are running there.
ReplyDeleteYour life is fabulous!
ReplyDeleteWe have jet black squirrels in our garden. x