Sometimes you have to look up as well as down.
Here are some of Zeke’s favorite roadside foods.
They’re a little blurred, which I will blame on Zeke and Sam pulling on me while I tried to take a picture. These are unripe blackberries. Zeke checked them but they were too green even for him. This was Tuesday evening.
On Wednesday, we looked up instead of down.
There were lots of cirrus unchains (this is a link to a source other than Wikipedia, for a change), or mare’s tail clouds. They were changing very quickly, even as we walked along the road. When we got home I saw these from our back deck.
They were slowly fading to pink. I sat for a few minutes, but the sky was changing so quickly that they were gone before the setting sun could paint them.
The sky on Wednesday seemed particularly beautiful to me because we had some good news earlier in the day. A second flooring contractor came out and measured for tile and hardwood. He sounded knowledgeable, even about electrically-heated bathroom floors. He gave a reasonable estimate for the work, less than I had expected. And, what’s more, he said he could almost certainly start by May 23. That will work out almost perfectly, because I hope the interior painting will be done by then, and, maybe, just maybe, the power and heating/AC as well. The timing was very good, although it’s clear at this point that we will not be in the house by the end of May. However, I am willing to bet (a small amount) that we can be ready to move in by the end of June, assuming our buyers’ bank is able to move reasonably quickly. It even seems that I will be able to do the trim work in the new house.
I’m pretty happy about things right now, but don’t tell Fate about that.
Love the cirrus clouds there. We’ve had fog and clouds for the past few days, so these blue skies there are especially cheerful to me. Great news about the flooring contractor and the prospect of a real move-in date. Getting closer and closer!
Robin — The clouds were nice. Various sites say this type of cloud is often a precursor to “bad” weather. That was the case here, as we got three waves of fairly strong storms from around noon through midnight on Thursday. But I’m not complaining. We needed the rain. The house does seem to be coming together fairly well right now.