one scrappy life

Happy Labor Day! 

I hope you are getting to relax. 
Yesterday, QG and I started watching season 2 of The Killing -oh my lordie, it is the best series ever - if you have not seen it, I challenge you to watch the first episode without getting addicted. It is not possible. You will emerge hours later, bleary-eyed from watching tons of dark and rainy episodes. I think we watched 6 or 7 straight - a super-fun and indulgent waste of time which I highly recommend (though I was crocheting the whole time so something got done). 

Today, I've been working on poetry, gave Jamie a bath in the back yard, read the newspaper, did some gardening and ironing and took a few pictures around the neighborhood. QG and I are about to go out for lunch as soon as he gets done scrubbing the kitchen floor - don't know what possessed him to do that, but I'm not complaining. 

I love this kind of day: a day pieced together out of random scraps. Here are a few of the pieces. See how many fun bits you can squeeze into today. Enjoy!

Finding

Rumbly mountain top

Cardboard cereal box

SuperBall bouncing high

My own corner of bluest sky

A pond to splash and swim

So many games to win

Sunlight on skin

Secrets within

White light ahead

So much to dread

Spiders on forehead, shoe

More than I can do

Arms falling slack at sides

Feeling like I should hide

Not sure of what I see

Don’t know all I need

Happy, yet sad

Try to be glad

Life spilling over, beneath

Wanting to learn, not teach

Sitting quietly at rest

Finding I am blessed

         -Kimberly Laustsen