10 Things You Miss About Your Own House When You Go Away
Today's Ten on Tuesday topic is both timely and just perfect for my situation - 10 Things You Miss About Your Own House When You Go Away. With a combination of vacation and helping Older Son move, I was away from my own house for all but one day in August. While I enjoyed my travels, I'm also finding it lovely to be back home.
Clearly a winter picture, but it's also one of my favorite pictures of Our House.
Here's what I missed:
- My own kitchen. I know where things are (when someone else doesn't put them away!) and I really enjoy cooking where I feel completely at home.
- My own coffee/tea mug. I love everything about this mug, the size, the handle, and the fact that it has the first 23 digits of pi inscribed around it. No other mug seems "just right".
- My knitting/reading chair. I did enjoy knitting on the dock at Keuka Lake and in the spot I claimed at Older Son's house, but my butt fits best in my chair at home.
- My bath sheet in my bathroom. I dry my laundry outside on the clothesline most of the time, so my towels at home can be a bit scratchy, but they are bath sheet size and absorbent, both of which I love.
- My clothesline. I enjoy the process of hanging my laundry out to dry; I love knowing I'm not paying the electric company for dry clothes, and I love the smell of line-dried clothes. I don't have the luxury of my clothesline when I'm away from home.
- My garden. I'm not sure I miss the work, sweat, and bugs of gardening, but I do miss easy access to really fresh vegetables. I have been home in time to catch the waning of the garden and some beans, tomatoes, turnips, and carrots.
- The sounds in my home. I live in an old house so we have squeaky floors and doors, and the lovely clanking and comforting hissing of steam radiators in the winter.
- Knowing my own house so well that I can easily find my way around in the dark.
- The enveloping, protective feeling that coming home to my house always gives me.
- All of the wonderful memories that have been made here in our house over the past 24 years. Our house is a very, very, very fine house!
Nice list, I can tell you really enjoy your home.
ReplyDeleteThe mug - I so totally get that!
ReplyDeleteI miss my mug and my kitchen too! Also where I sit to drink my coffee in the morning :)
ReplyDeletelove your mug. Where did you find it?
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