Sea Change

It's late, almost 1:30 am, and I can't sleep. I think it is all the fumes from the painting next door. Maybe it's the change of season, maybe it is the restlessness of knowing autumn is on it's way. The trees are starting to change, I can see a bit more rustic colour in them when the wind blows. School will be starting in just over a week for the kidlets. The summer went so fast, and although fall doesn't actually start until September 21 (or 22nd), the lazy days of summer, have seemed to elude me. I did moan and whine at the humidity, I did neglect my garden (which I plan to remove all the viable flowers from, and replant elsewhere or give away). It just seemed like everything was a whirlwind. This is the first summer that I have experienced which seemed rushed and crazy. I keep thinking of stuff that I should have accomplished, and could have accomplished, but other things took precidence over those things. I didn't expect the amount of work to do on the rental next door. I certainly didn't think I would be still painting. Today, I almost finished the mudroom, which, does look a lot better. The only thing stopping me from fully finishing it is an extra large freezer that I cannot for the life of me move. It's stuck, as in tongue stuck on a pole in a Christmas Story stuck. Normally, I can move just about anything, this thing will not budge, and I think it is catching on the floor that we have to replace. I thought "hernia" as I was trying to push it. It's from the late 1970's or early '80's and it is a brute. It was the one that held copious amounts of beets. I have tried to freecycle it with no avail, maybe if I put it on a bulletin board for 50 bucks, someone will take it. Sometimes people don't like free things, they are afraid of them.