How do you pull a rabbit out of a hat? Sometimes his ears are not sticking up and you have to dig around in the hat to find something that resembles a rabbit. Today we pulled a few rabbits out of the hat to amaze and amuse those around us.
The first rabbit was the news that Jacob’s doctors think that his new “area of concern in his liver” are two abscesses and so he has to take massive doses of antibiotics to help combat that problem. We are relieved to hear this diagnosis.
The second rabbit out of the hat was that we have solved one more problem at digitizing. There was a reflection that we could not explain. We stumbled upon the solution while doing the whiteboard. There was an unexplainable dark blue shadow on the monitor and I accidentally bumped the black cardboard that was shielding us from the glare of the lights and I wondered if that was also what was the causing the reflection. Sure enough, it turned out to be that situation and so we took down the faded black card and put up new card and the reflection is gone, and our supervisor is not coming to visit us.
The third rabbit pulled itself out of the hat at our line dance class. One of the class members has been talking to me about her genealogy problems and I told her of some sources she might check and encouraged her to follow up. Last night she hugged me and thanked me profusely for telling her that her ancestor is probably hiding in plain sight and that she should re-examine what she has on him. She had a marvelous experience in making contact with people she found on the internet and as a result she is closer to finding her lost relative. This made my heart really happy – another rabbit out of the hat.
One more rabbit hopped out in Phoenix by having FedEx deliver David’s boots to him. He expected the boots to appear the next day after I ordered them but they took about 10 days to get to David and now he is very happy. We spent about an hour last night sending text messages back and forth with pictures about the boots and his happiness. Having the texting feature available on my cellphone has been a lifesaver for David as well as for me. It helps him keep in touch and not feel so cut off from us while we are on this mission.
And then there is the spring flower rabbit that hopped out by himself. Good quilting practice says to not use a lot of yellow in your quilt because it tends to take over and washes out a lot of other colors. It is a commanding presence and I did use some yellow in the quilt that has been put together for me by Sherri for inclusion in the upcoming quilt show by Mountain Top Quilters. I had thought that I would have time to work on it before I left on this mission, but time ran away from me and the quilt had to be finished by someone else. I have seen a picture of the quilt and it looks good but the yellow forms a star pattern and yes, it has taken over the quilt. So I wonder who then did the design of the roadside flowers. It is spring here and the first flowers to show their sunny faces are the dandelions. There are clumps of them along the side of the road. They are not organized like yellow in a quilt top, but they seem to congregate in homogenous clumps and defy the world with their brilliance and presence. Even though there are hundreds of them in the group, their color does not take over the countryside. In fact it offers relief from the brown lumps of leftover ice from the huge pile collected by the snow plow this past winter and it sprinkles the newly alive green grass and it provides a rest for my eyes. I like Dandelions. I used to make necklaces with them when I was very young. My own children gathered them and brought them to me with the words “For you mommy. I love you”. The flowers presented to me showed some wear and tear from chubby fingers grasping them too tightly or carrying them longer than they should and leaving the flowers wilted. A cup of water usually revived them but sooner or later they were in need of disposal. That was always a very sad time for David. In his mind they should have retained their fresh yellow glow forever.
I notice that in some gardens on the way to the Archives, the Daffodils are in full bloom and I even saw some snowdrops. The Forsythia has not bloomed yet, but I notice that it will not be long before their showy yellow blooms come out to play. Many people here have grown Rhododendrons and I look forward to seeing those blooms really soon. The buds of this plant are already filling out.
There should be more hats and rabbits in our lives – things are much more pleasant when one has a soft fluffy rabbit to hold.
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