The rain and the log home. . .

I love the rain. It makes me happy, it puts me at ease. This past month has been full of rain and nothing could have made me happier. If you’ve never lived in a log home, you should, especially when it’s raining. I have been home for a month and it’s had both its good and bad but one incredible good is the realization I’ve had at how much I love my home and how I’ve missed it this past year. It isn’t just logs, walls, rooms and doors; it’s a silent witness to the happy and sad moments that have taken place within those walls and rooms. I laid awake the other night, underneath my open windows and listened to the rain. The rain falls different onto a log home than it does on any other. At my last home the walls and the brick and the roof became a protector, deflecting the rain off with swift rejection. The logs, on the other hand, protect in a different way – they embrace the water as it falls and lets the rain find the ground by making its way over their curved surface. The logs were cool as I placed my hands against them and the smell of the rain together with the wood was wonderful. The smell alone is why everyone should live in a log home. As the smell of the rain mixed with the wood it created a cool sweetness, almost a musk, one of those things you can’t quite put a name too but you recognize it just the same; it brings comfort, it is comfort. I fell asleep to the sound of a symphony of rain and the smell of comfort that the wind lightly blew into my room.

A Tag from Erica . . .

4 things on my wishlist

new camera
new car
hopscotch court
Emilio Estevez


4 shows I watch

Criminal Minds
Dancing with the Stars (Tony is all I have to say about thatJ)
Castle (Nathan Fillion is all I have to say about thatJ)
Bones (David Bor – wait, you know the restJ)


4 things I’m passionate about

Literature
Music
Family
Dinosaurs

4 phrases I say a lot

Yikes and or Yikers
Gross!
_______________ (I need you all to help me out with the last 2 – I can’t think)
_______________

4 things I’ve learned from the past

Life is hard for everyone
Patience is the best virtue to posses
Kindness matters
You can’t change the past

4 places I want to go

Ireland
Argentina (again)
Boston
Sandpoint, Idaho (wink , wink)

4 things I did yesterday

watched Mason
drove Gabby’s car
went to Barnes and Noble
bought flowers with my mother


4 things I’m looking forward to

Italy
Italy
Italy
And did I say . . . Italy

4 things I love about Winter

the cold
hot drinks
fireplace a blazin
basically everything (bring back winter!!)


Tag 5 (I like 7 better)

Abby
Emily
Rachel
Michelle
Ariel
Marcela
Wendy

on your mark, get set, GO!

10 points . . .

go to whoever can tell me where this comes from:

"Also . . . I can kill you with my brain."

Man - I love this show:)