A Beautiful Woman...

Got to work at my Volunteer job early today! Steroids give back the energy that age robs from you; at least while you're on a course of them. :) 

It was still and quiet on the parking lot, only noise was very sporadic traffic on an almost ALWAYS bumper to bumper street on Montrose in Houston's Arst enclave at the Heights! A squirrel was however, knocking pecans off the old tree there, so I sorta dodged them and helped a student carry in some canvasses etc. 

Helped set up the tables and chairs, made Chai Tea for all, washed brushes, helped the Art Teacher sort paints into their respective color groups to make them WAY easier to find for everyone! :)

I piddled here and there, helping, patting, petting and  mixing paints. LOVING EVERY MINUTE,UNTIL I got in my first wheelchair 'run by'..... LOL.

One of the Students (in his 60's I'd say, and another student about the same age, a woman, got a snit going. Not an unusual combo, btw. They simply clash. And living from a Wheel chair has got to be the absolute PITS on your anger quotient some days! :(

Anyhowzer, my toes(in flipfops...duh on me) on my left foot got crumped. I jumped but was very cool, and said nah, it was okay, no prob. Meantime the two of them are shooting daggers. So I go to sit down for a minute in the quiet lobby and just chill a lil.

I saw one of the prettiest women I have ever seen while just sitting there.

Her hair was pure white, she had to be oh maybe 75,76.And she had a very fair complexion that was wrinkled and lined. 

If you recall Texas' past Woman Governor, Ann Richards, you'll recall she had the WRINKLES honey. And she was damn proud of every one of them and was beautiful BECAUSE she acknowledged them and didn't appear to let them get in her way.. Rightfully so. 

The lady today was being shown around the Art Gallery/School and was strolling along in a liesurely and classy manner. She had on a pale, pale pink blouse and white capris. She looked at me and we smiled and I remarked "Boy, that pink is your color. You are just gorgeous!" Flirty, sassy, sexy woman said back to me "That's why I wear it. I love the compliments!" Now that's the way to do that! Accept a compliment and be gracious and joyous. That made me smile all day.

Now then; if only I could learn to believe that a compliment is real! I'm workin' on it! :)

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Take good care of You, you are always gonna be a wondrous work in progress, man or woman!! 

Love ya, Kay

Never Mix a Woman on Steroids With one Pissed at Getting Old! :)

Whew! What a great day.:)

Woke to the first day of Fall being not too horrible. Coffee on the porch in the shade at 8:00AM, not hot, NOT humid? First clue. Not humid....YET!
I am on steroids for an itchy S C R A T C H Y rash that 6 months of humid heat and stress can cause in a woman over 60 who is not gettin' anywhere with figuring out what she wants to be yet etc.
Plans for the day; Lunch at a Tea room with my best Buddy, Barb who is 80 something and HELL ON WHEELS darlin! She still mows her acre with a riding mower and tells her doctors to "Define REST!"

She has been slowing down a bit the last year. Light, manageable diabetic, glaucoma in one eye, maybe a bit of a heart slowdown. But boy is she pissed about getting old. She wants it to BE SLOW.
"This effing getting old all of a sudden is bullshit!" She said to me on the way to lunch today at "Four Friends Tea Room" in Pearland, Texas. (Nice place, nice people, homey! Great Croissant with Chicken Salad!)
Now then, by noon it was 92º and the humidity was climbing. She felt old and crappy, I felt steroidal and GETTING old and crappy. We cursed every fool on the road. We groused and gritched and raised old ho-billy-hell at the world today. In the car, windows up and and with a really good feeling of saying "To HELL WITH IT!" We cruised to Wally World and dared somebody to get snotty or not have a clue what their department had. We cruised Radio Shack and were very happy to have a sales clerk both pleasant, polite, smiling and knowledgeable! :) She was a Doll! Wonder if Wally World across the street called to warn them there were two old ladies headed their way with a hard on at the world? Could be.

At any rate...we got home without bloodshed to anyone. Full of good food and iced tea (and tiny Demitasses' of hand brewed Spice/Fruit Tea made special at the Tea Room.) The heat was still climbing by 3:30 PM so we both decided our fuss at the world could probably wait till later. We both headed for nice cool air conditioned naps at our houses, and then she was gonna mow again....Damn! That woman makes us all look like little bitty lazy assed goofoffs! :)
See ya later, and take the best care of yourself so you'll last as long as Barb has so far! :)
Love ya'll.
Kay

Humming Birds, Rain and a Cuppa..

Hey ya'll!
What's goin on where you stay? I'm on the Tex-Mex Gulf . lol We had remnant rain all weekend from a tropical storm. That was good though, it was a sweet, nourishing woman rain, a gentle part of the feminine earth watering.
A male rain has made my life miserable more than once down here during Hurricanes and seasonal storms that can put out the fires of Hades given the notion.!
I sat with a book and a cuppa really good French Roast, trying to read but hearing some humming birds around the corner of the porch... Woo hoo. Grabbed the camera and ACTUALLY manipulated a Full minute movie of them diving and darting! And the unedited dumb bell stunt at the end, now to get it on here! :)

This coming Wednesday marks the Fall Equinox...Autumn's factual date. The Moon goes full the next night. So....a Fall Feast/Fest is due, whatcha thinking of? I'm planning hearty breads, Pumpkin or squash soup...ummmmmm oh who knows, how ever many people show up will sort of guide all that! Bring me a Nice thick Port Wine will ya? :)
Take good care of you, no one else will!
Love, Kay