...rainy days and Mondays always get me down...
~ The Carpenters
Well, not usually....I generally love rainy days {I was raised in San Diego where when it rained we all ran to the window and gazed in amazement} and as for Mondays...I love 'em...yes I do...they are like a mini fresh start...you know, new week, new to~do list {or...the same to~do list, but re~written on a fresh sheet of paper}.
I know it is Wednesday...and I know that I should let a Monday that had a rocky start go...but I wanted to share the magic of blog composition and creativity found in the most unexpected of places.
Who would of thought that an idea for a blog post {a goof~ball~o~rama blog post} but a blog post non~the~less...would be gleaned from a rainy Monday that was starting to get me down.
4 am {Yep, 4!} Up and at 'em
7 am ~ Wake the fam...make coffee, lunches, read email, feed the dog, feed the cat, wash dishes, laundry, mop floor, re~write last week's to~do list on a new piece of paper, chase dog down and retrieve my cowboy boot from her mouth {dog's have died for less}, check calendar, shower, put on cowboy boots {it is pouring outside and folks drive crazy when it rains so a horse might be a better choice}
8 am ~ Leave house to drive daughter to school and the 7 month old lab that tried to have a cowboy boot with her morning coffee knocks me down!!! I announce to the world {or at least the neighbors within a three block radius} just how happy I am about this, I get into the car and my daughter is not sympathetic and I tell her that we are not listening to Hanna on the way in...we are listening to the 40's station...{she, of course is thrilled}, and off we go on our less than merry way.
8:15 am ~ Kiss 12 year old good bye and she tells me to have a better day...and good golly with the sweet smile she gave me and the gentle touch on my hand...well why wouldn't I? {I love this kid!}
8:20 am ~ Run into same school for a quick meeting...
9 am ~ Park in Office Depot parking lot and pop in to buy a box...but first...take a big, fat fall on the wet floor...you know the kind....the kind where first you try to recover...swinging your arms around like a gymnast but then just giving in to gravity and down you go...but Monday's fall had the added bonus of my feet with the chewed on cowboy boots going up in the air...it was the kind of fall that you would normally do if you were laughing with friends and you KICK your COWBOOT BOOT covered FEET UP IN THE AIR WITH ATTITUDE.
Good grief...it was only 9 am!
Still pouring outside and believe it or not...I am still optimistic about the down pour...I head on over to Michael's...gonna turn this day around...only good things happen at Michael's..right?
Right...
9:20 am ~ Walk {carefully and SLOWLY} I quickly find exactly what I am looking for and dash {carefully and slowly} to checkout and I am served by the sweetest gal that asks me how my day is going and I tell her that I have been on the ground TWICE today and it isn't even 10 am! We had a laugh and told her that I am slowing down and being more careful for the rest of the day...and she added that when you slow down you see things along the way that you otherwise would have missed...she was right.
Here is the post I wrote in my head while walking carefully and slowly to the car in the rain still with my trusty cowboy boots...yee ~ haw sisters.
Mother Nature ~ The Queen Of Decoupage
Even Mother Nature loves decoupage to enhance her Autumn decor. She is so good at delightfully applying it in otherwise unnoticed places like on wet cars, damp windows and drenched parking lots...she deserves the title of "Queen of Decoupage"...Cha, cha, cha.
Taking the sweet gal from Michael's advice...I slowed down and look what I noticed...
They were everywhere...
The fall leaves....not washed away too quickly...sometimes I love a long good~bye...
Delight found..even in a wet parking lot...
Can you imagine what folks were thinking while I was taking pictures of the ground?
...after kicking my heels up at Office Depot earlier this morn...
Red leaf...
At the end of this day...a rainy day and a Monday didn't get me down.
Lesson ~ If you are going to turn around a bad start to your day...cowboy boots really help.
Smiles ~ Ramona
Note to readers ~ No seven month old cutie~pie black labs were harmed while writing this post...I'm just saying.
Cage of crows...
Acorn squash...in a cage~
Autumnal entry...
Even chairs can have a 
