Today I finished the job of flowering up S’s dining room. It surprised me to spend another 8 hours on it today. . . don’t know why I was surprised, because there are 26′ of morning glories! There is also the inevitable dinking around at the end that I have learned (the hard way) is Very Important. So often I am operating in the Get-er-dun mode; this means I sign it, pack it up and go! Then, I look at it later and say “Oh. Oooops!” (I confess that sometimes I have been known to say something worse than ooops.)

This time, S was home all afternoon, and we had such a good time hanging around together. She enjoyed watching the final part of the process. I think she was also glad that I was the one up and down the ladder rather than her!

This was a great learning experience, and I feel privileged to have had the opportunity to create a little more beauty in S’s life. Her home is so very beautiful that I had to adopt a mantra – Thou Shalt Not Covet – and repeat it from time to time.