ebony & ivory

so what is with the pianos lately?? today i got ANOTHER line on someone who wants some post-traumatic mosaic work on a piano. yikes! i can't even play a note, myself, but think it would be much easier to practice on a 1-of-a-kind piano. so we'll see about this one. i also got a trunkful of the coolest rustiest STUFF! i'll be trying to scratch out time to do some post-traumatic totems soon. it's starting to happen, and i thank God for that. talked with an awesome photog today to do some work shooting my "stuff" so i can finally have a website. very cool. so do you hear Jiminy Cricket singing "When You Wish Upon A Star" yet? my friend gail who does call now just spent a week in a cabin by the Lake. just quilting. paradise! i talked to her today and she's done 3! i have completion-envy....we've taken classes together in the past and she always finishes her quilt. i have a stack of them in various stages of un-finishedness. i'll admit it - there are a lot of days when i want to BE gail...including the Husband Who Shall Be Worshipped. not that i have designs on him....no no no. her life is just so.....well, to be envied. in a good way. and i'm happy for her as if it were me. she cooks gourmet stuff, her house is always clean, her house is decorated way cool, her hair (which varies wildly from season to season) is always EXACTLY how i would want mine, she's all sociable...okay i'll stop. but just thinking about her makes me smile. and feel very glad to count her as a friend. in thinking about it, while i revised my Surprise Birthday Party list, i have been blessed with a lot of very cool friends with very cool lives. interesting people. doing interesting things. why they hang out with me is a question i'll never be able to answer! so anyway...an early bedtime tonight. Youngblood is home for the night to attend a friend's father's funeral. there's sure to be some man fussin' later. oy. L.