Rambling around

A pleasant weekend morning, with time to get a few things in order here.

A coworker picked me up at 9 for our visit to 'the Barn', the primary charity shop on the island. Obviously, the quality of what is there varies, and most of what I saw today was pretty basic stuff. Nonetheless I found a few light-weight additions to my wardrobe - it is all on a guess, as there is no place to try things on there. And - ta da! - 5 of the Bermuda National Trust's by-Parish architectural heritage series, heavily illustrated and just fascinating to dive in to. (I have the volumes on my Parish - Smiths - and Devonshire, Sandy's, St. George's and Hamilton Parish.) Also an older book, from 1965 (but not much has changed...) called A Geography of Bermuda. They didn't have any of the plants or birds of Bermuda books I am looking for - and then there are the collections of legends and ghost tales...

That is, I suppose, my mind-set right now - I have been reading my way through another Trust/Planning Department joint effort, The Traditional Building Guide, which does a very good job of explaining the whys and hows and wherefores for the various traditional building elements. Full of drawn illustrations, too. I know it sounds a bit like reading a phone book, or a building code (I have that too), but it is well written and enlivened with the evident passion of the authors.

We also stopped at a sale being handled by my Good Riddance Girl, where I got a deal on a kitchen island, and she is bringing it to me when things wind down at the sale. Cheryl, my coworker, was pleased to have found a good quality wok, and had come away with a couple large carriers of clothes from the Barn. So - a good morning.
Perhaps I should call Lela about the bookcase I saw there...

Feeling flush as a result of having gotten my month's paycheck, I've also picked up some things at the market I'd been eyeing. So, I feel content to wait out the muggy drippy rainstormy weather and go between laundry and cleaning chores, application reviews for the office, and prepping food for the week - soaking farro and dried beans, roasting beets and a chicken (tho not one of my noisemakers!), packing away the more wintery-weather clothing, and working on my birdhouse. Life is good!

Hope the weather clears up in time for the Heritage walk tomorrow - I don't want to do 7.5 miles in the wet.