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Good evening, how is everyone? I myself am exhausted---suddenly it seems everyone has decided the pandemic is over and I am having unexpected, not really invited guests who wish to enjoy the end-of-summer beach. Not unwanted, just unanticipated? After many months of quietude, having one's space invaded, however well meant, is, I find, stressful and tiring and oddly uncomfortable..

There's a new thing that experts are calling ''caution fatigue", not fatigue as in tired, but fatigue like worn out and giving up. Apparently folks think, ok we stayed home, we social distanced, enough already. And they do not wear masks or use the hand sanitizer I so prominently display.

I didn't get much done the past few days. Mo seems to be healing well but he had a huge panic attack Saturday when I was briefly out in the early evening. He was frantic, and his claws tore my hand badly as I tried to protect my  vulnerable legs in shorts. He hasn't done this since he was a baby, it came as a shock. My hand is healing but it hurt a lot and still hurts.

Yesterday he did better, as I was out at my normal time and gave him a calming treat before I left. The visit to the doctor, the blood pressure guy, was fraught. No parking so I  had to beg a ride from a friend. Then the waiting room was quite busy, no such thing as six feet apart. The doctor and staff wore masks but no gloves, no smocks, just usual khakis and golf shirt or nurse-y scrubs. I had to repeatedly ask if things were sanitized.  Apparently medical people have caution fatigue too.

So boo hoo, nevermind. Quiet has returned this evening. It is oddly chilly, low 70s. Harbinger of far off Fall?

Today's photos are indoor shots, as I am practicing for Instagram and also for a blog post elsewhere where we'll be asked to show our favorite home vignette. Don't worry that you'll be bored on IG if you look at my space there; IG doesn't allow access to desktop photos, where I always carefully edit each and every photo I share here, so those used should appear somewhat different.
Enjoy....

Off topic I must show you this quilt made by Audrey at Quilty Folks. Blogger of  Dotty 365 fame. Check out this link....HERE

I MUST have a pink and cheddar project like hers. I don't know when but it just sings to me, a siren song.

love

lizzy

gone to the beach....

Old Fashioned Flowers ~ Summer

Good evening, another Friday and August is halfway over.It's summery warm tonight but dry with a big billowy wind from the east. My windows are wide open, the curtains are swaying and outside the sky is the color of apricot jam.

Mo is doing well. Thank you to everyone who has asked about him. He is not allowed chew toys right now, so he went into my wastebasket here by my desk last night and dug out a well gnawed jerky stick. He was so proud as he settled with it in his bed, I didn't have the heart to take it away immediately. Moments later, I glanced down to check on him: ZZZZzzz. He had fallen again into a painkiller doze, happily clutching his treasure.

Mo's walking is somewhat curtailed for now, both the surgery and the heat keeping our walks close to home, but we enjoy noting the late summer flowers at their peak.

The beach alley:

Including a wildly growing zucchini that Mo found interesting.

The wall and bayberry hedge blown down during TS Isaias.

A peek through a fence, to spy bright flowers:

More of the wonderful creamy white hydrangea shrubs.

Tuxie. one of the feral kitties, right after the storm. He was sunning happily on a transformer . He must have felt safe and sheltered there s it is enclosed on our trademark grey wood beach fencing.

Trumpet vine, a wild flower/ weed?

Here it is featured on one of my quilts,"Summertime", by Jan Patek.

And one day when running errands with my friend L, she left me waiting in the car a=while she ran into a local jewelry shop, now open, to finally drop off a repair. The parking lot faced a strip of left-wild prairie grasses and wildflowers. It was teeming with butterflies, bees, and small birds. The weedy strip, obviously intentional, buffers the jewelry store cluster of shops. and the strip mall where my grocery store is.

The tall vines included dense growths of wild Pokeberry, laden with fruit though the berries are still green..

Remember my Pokeberry quilt?

Back home my one surviving deck pot is thriving. I have pumpkin vine flowers, so excited.

On an indoor note, one of my little goals for this stay at home period was to finally figure out and post on Instagram. I did it! I can now at least post photos and caption them.  I'm not a huge fan of IG but I always want to master the techniques. I don't think Twitter is calling my name tho.
With IG, for a while I hope to add a photo every day, now through----September?

(Oh how did I do it? Well, I broke down and finally read the how-to directions in their Help section.) Here is my link if you wish to follow me. HERE

And here is something to think about, or at least enjoy this post from a shop in Tokyo. Blue&White

love

lizzy

gone to the beach....

random beach evenings, from long ago...