Tonight's picture was taken in January of 2005. I was working in the kitchen and naturally my sidekick was with me. Mattie always wanted to be part of the process and he responded positively to responsibility at an early age. If I was doing a task, he wanted to do it too. Which was most likely why I snapped a photo of that moment in time.
Quote of the day: It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power. ~ Alan Cohen
Peter and I had a plan for the day today, which we established last night. One of our goals was to go out to lunch and to bring my stack of Foundation paper work with me. We established this tradition early on, of going out to lunch and working. We seem to get a lot more accomplished over a weekend lunch, when we are together and can brainstorm Foundation issues and next steps. Maybe it is being out of our home, away from the usual distractions, or perhaps it is having food and conversation that simply works. All I know is when things begin piling up for me and I deem that there are Foundation items that must be discussed, we plan a working lunch.
What was Peter's greatest concern was that we had burst a water pipe and therefore if that was the case, no amount of vacuuming would have solved this problem. Thankfully a pipe did not burst. Instead the hose was just frozen and when I turned on the water faucet outside, the water couldn't come out of the hose, so it backed up into the walls and into our kitchen. Once we had the majority of the water sucked up, we called our complex's maintenance who came over and felt we handled this very well and now of course needed to have air move over the space to dry it to prevent the floors from buckling and my worse fear mold. The complex was completely out of fans. We have two fans typically, but we lent one to our older neighbor and we did not want to take it from her since she still uses it. So we scrambled and went looking for a fan today. It isn't fan season, but we did track one down at a store. So now we have fans going, we have the windows open (mind you it is in the 30s), and we put an air purifier in the kitchen. This scenario could have been much much worse today. We destroyed a rug, but no furniture was damaged and all the floors seem intact right now. All I know is I had a good intention to clean out a dead plant and replace it, and instead I landed up washing out part of our first floor. Needless to say, we are both tired from a full day of cleaning and dealing with water everywhere.
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