ahhhhh the dust, the dust

Celebrities have never much interested me.  However, I did follow Martha Stewart when she first started out.  I admired her work ethic but not her stiff way of speaking.  She was trying to shed the New Jersey girl speak and was often seen as stilted and pompous while trying to shape a new way of presenting herself. I bought and watched and rewatched her first set of videos.  Sometimes weekend guests would visit (a lot) and I would cook Martha dinners which was very laborious, a bit like her speech pattern.  One Thanksgiving the company and I dressed the turkey in puff pastry and it looked perfect and was delicious to boot.  But it is not something I will ever do again. Anyway, Martha rode high for a long time and worked very hard pinching other people's ideas on occasion without giving them credit or so the press said, and you know the media is always right.  Lately, however, she's struggled to be important again in the TV sector.  But, I think she has found her niche on HGTV channel 52 (I think) in Columbus.  It takes place on her pristine farm and it is a garden show.  Andy and I liked it very much and she even told jokes--one about her husband.  She said couples who garden together stay together but not my husband, he ran away. (He actually did leave her and was it messy!) She said, 'I used to assign him garden duties and he would lay down in the grass and listen to classical music.' She did not think much of his gardening skills although she did tend to be critical of everyone who wasn't her.  Now she is more comfortable in her situation... loose and more comfortable in speech and demeanor and I think this show may work out for her.  She is a very good teacher and prides herself instructing others often and clearly. I think Snoop Dog has caused her to lighten up either that or its the weed. They are an unlikely pair but enjoy their time together. Strange, the connections we make with people in our lives. 

If you follow my blogs you know about the new pipes and the big cut-outs in my ceilings.  The powder room is the worst and a guy has just torn it to smithereens and is still working on it as I write. This blog gives me an outlet so I don't run screaming down Cooke Road. None of us like messed up houses and all dread construction and I have had enough of it done over the 34 years we have lived it.  I can't think there can be that many more surprises in store for us.  I've talked to The Lord about it and I think he agrees, we've had enough all the way around this year. Yet the hammering continues, the dust is still flying, and I have my night work ahead of me...that includes the shop vac and the mop. I bet you are wishing you were me. lol

Note:  I do have time to read and the book I am reading now is really, really good.  Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate.