Near intoxication

Life on this Monday is abuzz. It's a big laundry day, but the best kind of laundry day. The air is crisp and clean and the sky a bright piercing blue. I have cranked open the windows, and the energy of the amazing dry air is enough to make me light-headed. Outside, the birds are busy in my chimneys (guess I'll keep the chimney sweeps busy this winter), and the butterflies are rushing around my flowers. It would seem all of nature is taking advantage of this extraordinary start to the week. All of nature and all of man, too. Down the street, construction looms heavily over a house that is too big and juts out too far into the sightline of our friends. The street is littered with chunks of blown-in insulation, sawdust and odds and ends of 2x4s, nails and more. Next door to the west, crews prep the house for major renovation -- a new garage and master bedroom suite. Outside my very own driveway is blocked by a crane truck subcontractor with the name HEAVE HO on the door. Today we are getting a new condensor and a new coil for two of our air conditioning units. And now, the kids are due home.

More later...