Life in TorC

Why on earth is this woman smiling from ear to ear??? Could it be because she's upright and able to do something mundane for the first time in several years? I vacuumed the floor the other day and David caught it with the camera. How terrific! I could only manage the living room, but hey... By the way, here's our living room. Ugly rug, white walls--eh, we can live with it all. Found a couch at a yard sale, brand-new, for $200. It has recliners at both ends, so David and I each have one. How decadent! For those of you who have wondered about tumbleweed (how's that for a non sequitur?) I thought you might be interested in these two pictures. The one on the left is green, growing tumbleweed in the vacant lot across the alley from our house. The

tumbleweed at my feet is the dry stuff that blows and tumbles all over the place. David found this in a little nook beside our carport where he's going to build a small storage shed for his tools and such.

The other two photos are the alley to the left and right of our little house. Our house is very private, as none of the other houses on the alley face the alley but are oriented to the streets in front. Thus we have a lot of privacy (AND a lot of shade, which is a good thing.) In the photo directly above, you can see some of the new gardens David has put in--basil, tomatoes, peppers, Sweet William and cilantro in the bed to the left. To the right is my rock garden with carnations, blue sage, chollo cactus and ice plant. There are red ivy geraniums hanging from pots. Once all the gardening is done, I'll send more pics. The last photo is David and his new friend Brian, who plays trumpet and trombone, and two other quasi-musicians busking on the streetcorner of T or C last night at the monthly Gallery Walk (much like Homer's First Fridays, only it's Second Saturdays). They got paid $20 each by the owner of the antique shop in front of which they had set up, and a couple people threw some money in David's guitar case. So...we've been here two weeks, David's found a really good musician friend and he's had his first paying gig! Life is good!!!