{"id":643,"date":"2009-08-11T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-12T07:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mixhart.ca\/blog\/?p=643"},"modified":"2013-11-12T15:36:56","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T23:36:56","slug":"crazy-cousins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/crazy-cousins\/","title":{"rendered":"Crazy Cousins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_oxIVHsQ4CdQ\/SoIDaPyjudI\/AAAAAAAACOg\/ToJiKlNCHto\/s1600-h\/IMG_3759.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 313px; height: 400px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_oxIVHsQ4CdQ\/SoIDaPyjudI\/AAAAAAAACOg\/ToJiKlNCHto\/s400\/IMG_3759.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368857455229123026\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_oxIVHsQ4CdQ\/SoIDELLkkSI\/AAAAAAAACOY\/7j6uvzcNZBw\/s1600-h\/IMG_3760.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 260px; height: 400px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_oxIVHsQ4CdQ\/SoIDELLkkSI\/AAAAAAAACOY\/7j6uvzcNZBw\/s400\/IMG_3760.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368857076034736418\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_oxIVHsQ4CdQ\/SoIB-s-MHpI\/AAAAAAAACOA\/29TonX6VODk\/s1600-h\/IMG_3764.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 311px; height: 400px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_oxIVHsQ4CdQ\/SoIB-s-MHpI\/AAAAAAAACOA\/29TonX6VODk\/s400\/IMG_3764.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368855882514570898\" \/><\/a><br \/>Tuesday has become &#8220;treasure hunting Tuesday.&#8221; This is new. I usually stay away from thrift stores: minimize, down size! Yet suddenly, my new passion for the 1960&#8217;s has inspired me and yes, today I confess, I found more treasure!&#8211; mint giant cedar chest from the 1940&#8217;s and several pieces of 1960&#8217;s luggage. I&#8217;ve woken up to the idea that me with my vintage luggage (arriving at the Fairmont) would make a much more stunning picture than any new luggage would (save a designer set worth tens of thousands). I have a few rules: 1. I must need the pieces (at this point that only applies to storage pieces&#8211;side boards, wardrobes&#8211; and perhaps a few more large luggage pieces and a standing lamp). 2. They must be very reasonably priced. 3. I must already collect them: fu-dogs, pug sculptures, antique mirrors, 1950&#8217;s Canadian hand blown glass and Nancy Drew books pre-1950.<\/p>\n<div>I will start editing my Peter Novels and then work on publishing them. That is my focus. Until that is accomplished all other writing will wait its turn. As for painting? I have yet to find the time to squeeze it in. Once my degrees are finished and I am working, perhaps then I can schedule in my painting days. What else can one do? There are only so many hours in a day. And with my writing, my family and my school&#8211;I am pressed for every second.<\/div>\n<div>I am having a lazy, sleepy relaxed sort of a week. That is that. Perhaps it is what I need. I push myself to adhere to a firm schedule whenever I am at home. Up at 5:30, killer workout and go from there. I do worry though, that being so &#8220;fly by my pants&#8221; might just make the summer fly by. I don&#8217;t want that. I love to savour each and every day and draw it out until the sun disappears behind the mountain and the insect&#8217;s shrill hum is silenced by the coyotes.<\/div>\n<div>Tabs has been busy baking. She makes sweets, following my recipes. She refuses any help&#8211;from gathering the equipment to putting the cookies in the oven&#8211;she does it alone. She and Anemone get along so well. They have similar personalities and passions.<\/div>\n<div>Mist is busy hanging with her cousin Kyran. Those two have always been inseparable!<\/div>\n<div>Pip is busy playing with Artemisia. They are so busy together: shutting the door to Pip&#8217;s room and playing away, chatting a mile a minute! They are all heading over to Miranda and John&#8217;s tonight for supper and a sleep over party. Whatever shall Peter and I do without four darling under foot?<\/div>\n<div>&#8230;a few things I want to accomplish this week&#8211;to remind myself: rock climbing, bike to the top of the new road on the mountain across Clifton Rd, gym next 2 mornings, start editing Sugar Shack at Sea in the afternoon (tomorrow), tennis at the new courts. 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