Wabi-sabi

 

A beautiful gray day today in Rangeley.  A bit cold with lots of fog.  The town was fairly empty with few people or cars.  We started with a quick trip to town to first - empty our mailbox (our garage door "opener" was delivered) and then a stop at IGA for sweet potatoes (the only grocery forgotten for our week).

Paul spent his day working in the new garage.

                                                    The first three lights were hung.

                                                        New switches for new lights.

                                                        Outside light box has been installed.

                                                Adhering the outside box to the metal building

                                                required a wooden brace on the interior.

Meanwhile I cooked (new recipe brownies and bruschetta chicken), cleaned (toaster oven fire this morning), read (Robert Ludhum), artwork (perfecting my watercolor giraffes), keeping the fire going and filling the woodring and continuing to fine tune my Spotify playlist.  

National Louisiana Day.  I loved New Orleans.  There is so much to see and hear and taste!  The humidity - swampy.  Being able to walk everywhere - perfect.  The architecture - amazing.  The people - super friendly.  The graveyards - fascinating.

Word of the day - wabi-sabi.  A philosophy of Japanese origin that stresses the beauty in imperfection, impermanence and simplicity.  (A perfect description of every part of my day!  The weather - not perfect, our time here - short and our day - super simple!)