a female Wind
I met Alyssia and the kids at the Storage Place at noon. She had decided that she can use the futon couch, two chairs the dresser and my beloved stove Sabine at her house. For now. All the two days of loading things in New Mex, i kept saying, i don't need to take this. I don't need to take this. She kept saying, take it. Decide once you are there. Alyssia is a keeper. we were there 4 hours. Now the bankers boxes and some things line the walls in a U shape. I can get to each box. Look. Think.
The plan had been for Alyssia to clean the Attic at her rented house and Julian would have that as a bedroom. He was thrilled. But it's warming up now and has become totally clear that it would be intensely HOT up there, even with some kind of air conditioner running all the time. So...plan B or F, whatever. The attic will be used for Storage. To see how it goes. Her house is 15 min from here. There's a lot of room up there.
These bankers boxes. Books. Kitchen stuff, like all the sizes of pyrex casserole dishes anyone might imagine needing. Pyrex pie plates. I think there are 4. Pots and pans. Bowls. all kinds. Things like that. The books...includes the full set of 10 volumes of the Books of Knowledge and 10 volumes of Lands and Peoples....the 30's editions. My childhood. Some magazines that i love. Old ones. Before i left i took boxes of books to the Library for their sale. All the dishes are packed wrapped in linens. Sheets and towels. A lot. There are the two wooden toy boxes. There are the bankers boxes with Treasures written on the masking tape. She kept looking through them, lifting one thing up after another, delighting in them, many things familiar to her from her own babyhood. These...i can now go back by my self and look. Think. I can get to each box now. I have no idea what to do with all those treasures. I'll take pics of that process. Easier than trying to word it here.
I brought back 7 books. 5 of those under the bed storage tubs, one large garbage bag of textiles. One of the storage tubs of clothes. Summer ones. 3 large pillows with covers i love. that i made. A large box of Jars. my JARS!!! from the Smiths Grocery in Socorro, pasta sauce jars with plain black lids, no writing. I would just buy the sauce because i wanted another jar. Them. Perfect for dying cloth. Aesthetically so satisfying. Yes. And some large glass jars. Them too.
There's that black wooden chair of the Old Cowboy's. shored up with baling wire on the legs. I'll bring it here, in, it will be totally awkward at the end of this kitchen table. it probably won't work, But, maybe it's worth the discomfort. It was his mothers. Flossie. What else? oh the wooden dragon wind chime that's out in the Morning Tree and already the humming birds have checked it out.
That's it for now. OH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NO!!!! i had resigned self to having somehow left my copper pot behind. Given up. But in one of the bankers boxes marked Treasures, Alyssia poking through, EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeee! there it WAS!
After all the angst about the Shed.....maybe we don't even need a shed. Wouldn't that be Interesting?????
