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Yesterday was church and work. And some rest. (I wasn’t very efficient with my work). I have no pictures from the day, but here’s something from Saturday morning breakfast:
It’s a pineapple seed! Have I ever seen a pineapple seed? I mean, I’m sure pineapples make seeds, but I think I never paid attention to them. How fun!
I did not take it home with me. I have a little bit of an overcrowding problem with plants right now.
I had adventures yesterday! Yay!
I wanted to go on a drive somewhere. I decided to go to a really big IKEA in Burbank, north of LA, and WAY north of where I live. In the map below, I was the blue dot at the top, and my house is halfway between Torrance and Carson at the bottom.
The IKEA was indeed huge, and it was in a beautiful location at the foot of some hills.
I walked the whole place. Whew! The most interesting thing I saw was a “focus workstation”. How fascinating that this is what we’ve come to:
My ultimate goal was finding this:
Woo hoo! I was so excited. It matches one I already had to hold my Invisalign teeth tray packets. I have half of them so far, and my first box was full. I wanted a matching box to hold the rest:
While I was was up north, I searched for garden centers. I did visit some Armstrong garden centers, which is a wonderful chain store here, but I also visited a local nursery.
It was fantastic. Among other things, they had a whole building full of giant, old, and expensive houseplants:
The drive back was a bit traffic-y, but it was fun to see areas I’d never seen before. I always say that as I get older, seeing new places and experiencing new things become more and more precious to me.
A month ago, there was an earthquake that lasted a while and everyone felt. A few days afterward, when I was in my back yard, I saw some cracks in the cement block wall between my yard and my neighbor’s. I think they were new.
This past Thursday, there was another earthquake. I didn’t feel this one, because I was driving to school. It think there are new cracks in the wall.
I called a masonry place, and the guy was supposed to come yesterday afternoon, but he didn’t. I’m hoping he will still come. I have such a hard time calling and meeting up with skilled tradespeople.
I have said that I would join our church choir. I missed last week, because I was with the eighth graders, doing their beginning-of-the-year retreat. I was a little nervous about going last night. The rehearsal ends at 9:30, which is so, so late for me.
Then, after school, I saw an email the director sent, saying that rehearsal was canceled. I was so happy! It was a gift of unexpected free time – the best kind of gift!
I went home early, stopped at a hole-in-the-wall diner that makes amazing burgers, and ate while sitting in front of the tv.
Then I went to bed early.
I have a wonderful walk-in closet in my bedroom. I’m in there every morning, so it’s one of the places I’ve really worked on and decorated. Organizing the clothing stuff has been a big part of the work.
I came to realize that I didn’t have a very good place for my belt, I had to do something it about it. I did this:
It doesn’t look great, but it sure does the job.
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What?? Where do the seeds grow? I am only familiar with the ‘sprout the top of the pineapple’ method, but of course they have to make seeds. Now I’m so curious….