Home Is Where The Zinnias Are!

This week is staycation week for me. And I’m loving every minute of it! I knew I missed being at home all the time, but being here more than two days in a row has really confirmed just how much I do miss it. I mean, who wouldn’t want to look out their kitchen window and see this any time they choose?

This is one side of our driveway. We had the brick wall installed this spring. It’s all so nice to look at. Your eye goes to the right, soaking in the beauty of it all when…. WHAM! You see this!

Now, let me say first that I’m not the outside person. Not that the inside looks any better. Just sayin’. My husband is the man with the green thumb. He grew all the flowers from seed. He’s also the one who started a carport project and hasn’t finished. I want to decorate that little corner. Got a couple of ideas of what to put there, too. And I could even move this stuff if I had the time to work on it, but it seems like I’m always at the shop. Getting more and more despondent because I’m never at home. With the zinnias. And my own projects that need finishing. And dusting more than once every three months.

I was never meant to be a working girl. Thank goodness I married young and never had to support myself. I might not have married money, but I’ve never had to work for us to eat. I’ve always had part time things going on for spending money because I’ve always known how miserable I’d be if I worked full time. So what am I doing right now? Working more than full time and the only money I get out of it is a hamburger every now and then and sometimes finding something I want to keep for myself.

Being home this week had me convinced I needed to get the whole operation back here, knowing what an impossibility that is. I need the storage space. Need the packing room. And yesterday morning when I went down to get a shipment ready, knew immediately that I simply cannot give up the shop. I love having the shop. Adore my customers. But I love home equally, probably more. So, expect to see a days/hours announcement soon. Got to make sure I’m at peace with the plan.

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