all began simply enough…giving water…

 

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double click.   Two friends.   I give water and two friends benefit and give me back,  benefit.  Merit.

 

day continues and i check off stuff on my list,  feeling pretty fancy.

 

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i think how patiently Cloth waits.   I go along,  doing,  and all is well,  better than well.   Travis is coming because i realized that i can't play a DVD.  The other day he came and we saw that the new computer didn't have the correct hardware so it  was ordered.  Arrived today from my most loved UPS driver Terri.   I called Travis.  Left a message.  It's here.  

Continue to go along,  still feeling fancy,  and still feeling like everything was….well,  how i wanted it to be till i ran water in the bathroom sink and heard something that was NOT RIGHT.

 

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i feel the pipe and there is this HOLE,  this HUGE HOLE in the U joint.  Go out to the Albatross and find the pipe wrenches…get them part way off but then so unsure 

Wait.

Travis comes.  finishes taking them off.  Tomorrow i'll go to the hardware with these pieces and they'll give me what i need.  Sunday Travis will come back and put them together.

At first i thought O!…what an imperfect moment!….O!  but then i realized how perfect a moment it was,  when Travis was already coming to install the DVD thing…could not really be MORE perfect and so OK.  We just go.  ok.  and ok and ok and ok.

The reason i wanted to use a DVD function is this:

 

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i don't know how i came across this.  ????  But i did and i ordered it.  And it's the reason i wanted to be able to use a DVD.  And i just finished watching it.  And everything makes sense in it's own nonsensical way.   I am Grateful for a Lot of stuff.  Grateful. 

 

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18 responses to “receiving. No more and No less. Same.”

  1. margaret johnson Avatar
    margaret johnson

    Hello Grace, what beautiful plump happy frogs! Will the slater to the left be a meal for one of them?
    Wishing you lovely warm times with your Family. oxox

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  2. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    GRATITUDE … is a wonderful thing. The toads nature’s gift…I love toads. Oh Grace everything is coming together…Travis sounds like a very good person. Have a GREAT day!

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  3. grace Avatar

    hello back, margaret….
    i was so happy to see them there and can’t imagine slaters
    being appealing OR nutritious, but they are welcome to as many
    as they can ever possibly manage.

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  4. grace Avatar

    He IS. remembering, i first met him when Alz B was at
    the old folks home. Her lunch mates were Alma and Jenny.
    Travis was their CNA so while i fed Alz B, he fed them and
    we talked. That was almost 3 years. and then, the night
    Alz B died he was working midnights and came and sat for
    a couple hours with her son and i and her. Then he became
    the Old Cowboy’s primary caregiver during the end time for
    him and it was then i found out he can do almost anything…
    computers, now plumbing. He is a very fine young man. Gives
    me Faith.

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  5. Liz A Avatar

    Perfect timing to fix plumbing before company arrives …

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  6. grace Avatar

    it IS. Very obviously, was a miracle that it held together as long
    as it has. and really so GREAT it broke when it did, with the holiday
    weekend and all and the sink getting used and used and used…
    What if it broke the evening they got here????????????????ee
    so i am feeling beyond Lucky.

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  7. judy martin Avatar

    This post makes me feel amazing. thank you Xo

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  8. Stephanie Avatar
    Stephanie

    “I check off stuff on my list, feeling pretty fancy.” That made me laugh. I’m glad everything turned out so well. We just go.

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  9. Mo Crow Avatar

    love how you found such Beauty in a broken pipe

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  10. Wendy @ the Late Start Studio Avatar

    I’m caught up again Grace . . . scrolling up and down, finding my place and mmmming, nodding and smiling. Family visits . . . my grandhearts explode upon the scene, overwhelm with their wonderfulness, help me clean up when they go, and leave a big empty space behind them where there didn’t seem to be a space before . . . it takes a while to close over.
    Travis is indeed a treasure . . . I know you’ll tell him so.

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  11. handstories Avatar

    Oh, no! & Oh, Yes! Things do work out & together. The pipe photo is quite pretty.

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  12. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    Apparently your timing is perfect…the force is with you!

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  13. grace Avatar

    i does?????….well, i can’t imagine that, but i am
    so happy it does…I want you to feel just GREAT

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  14. grace Avatar

    yes. i’ve got it all layed out in there, pipe wrenches, pliers,
    plumber’s tape, silicone…ready for Travis. Am going to
    watch so i’ll remember all the steps in case of a “next time”,
    it really couldn’t be more simple, and if it weren’t for
    all the visitors, i would do it myself

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  15. grace Avatar

    isn’t it BeautyFull?????? i love old worn metal

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  16. grace Avatar

    i tell him all the time.
    and that big empty space i think will also be Welcomed

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  17. grace Avatar

    the binary, non binary of ohno/ohyes

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  18. grace Avatar

    and may it Stay
    in the middle of the night that little chain in the
    water thingy for flushing???, that little chain that i
    had repaired with a safety pin????
    it broke…more safety pins this morning…2.

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