Today was such a great day!
I have pictures to prove it.
John and I left early and went down to the Promenade to look at the birds and just enjoy the gorgeous day.
It was so nice down there, the sun was out and the water birds were very busy.
We went toward the lighthouse. The little wetland area where the ducks and geese hang out looks so strange in the winter. It is so congested with reeds and vines and water plants in the summer, that you can't even see anything in there. Now it is wide open.
I saw these berries on a vine. I am going to look them up. I just thought they were pretty.
There is a new pier on the far side of the walkway, just before you get to the lighthouse. We walked out on it and then looked back.
Nice view.
This is where John says he wants to live someday. It is a very old building that used to be a home for the elderly, run by an order of nuns. Now it has been renovated and split up into condos. It looks right out onto the bay.
I just love Havre de Grace.It's such a great place to live, and being able to share it with the kids, as they grow, I feel so Blest! Today, I really felt the tremendous gift that homeschooling my boys gives us. We all know each other so well. When we are walking along, talking about life and all that it entails (and it is getting more complicated for John all the time), I feel like I can really see the fine person that he is becoming. The perceptions, the wisdom, and his ability to interpret the details of where he is going in life. What a confirmation that for all the work and stress that goes into schooling these young men. They are really becoming good, capable people.
Here is the place that I think Mom and Dad should come and live. It is a new condo building right on the water. Each unit has it's own boat slip. The view from the top must be incredible!
After we finished walking, we went to lunch at the little Chinese place that we frequent.
It was so nice to just sit and talk, uninterrupted. I was thinking that someday I'll be an old lady, and my sons can come and we can go walk on the promenade, and they can drive me to lunch. One of those "Circle of Life" ruminations...
When we got home, I loaded up the van and took a drive to the landfill. I got rid of the old TV, all the nasty pink trim, some storm windows and other bits and pieces that I can't put out with the trash. We would have left the TV in the yard, for someone to pick up, but it really didn't work and it had been rained on, so that would have been a dirty trick.
Then I vacuumed out the car, made a trip to Walmart, where I got the usual groceries and supplies.
When I got home Tim was just finishing the cornices on top of the cabinets. What a difference they make!
I was also marveling at the way my cookbook stand actually goes with the kitchen now. It sure didn't when I bought it! I didn't think I would ever have a kitchen where that would look at home....
