“Aunt Annie’s” Lofty View
Posted by Dr. Judy at 10:19 pm
Positive Psychology Is About Savoring Life!
© 2009 Dr. Judy Krings
The $27,000 “big front end digger thing machine” (obviously a distant cousin related to the tall, skinny lopper thing “Aunt Annie”" brings to Grammy’s to cut off branches”) are honored to serve as a hitching post. The trio of real horses in the paddock no doubt feel very important to deserve a 27K much needed “fence post”. They rationalize that “Aunt Annie” wants them to be safe. The real truth is they are irritated as all get out. No more adding to their history of running on the highway at all hours of the night. Busted bronchos!
Yep, those real horses can run, but the wooden stallion up on”Aunt Annie’s” fireplace has his own secrets. He alone has the amazing vista appreciated through “Aunt Annie’s” gigantic windows are blocked only by her year-round silver upside down Christmas tree festooned with sparkly white lights creatively secured with fishing wire. I told you “Aunt Annie” was special. Oh, I didn’t yet? Well I am sure you have figured that out by now. That silver tree gleefully glistening is whacky only to those who don’t understand that Christmas can be in your heart any old day. Real fun is dateless. It just is.
© 2009 Dr. Judy Krings
I know that horse hanging up high corralled only by the massive fireplace stones, wishes he could regale to us how much he relishes watching the sun’s golden rays reflecting off the ponds. I bet he would love to frolic with the three real horses in the paddock down the road. Perhaps he has read the Velveteen Rabbit who finally got enough love and became real. For now, though, he is grateful just to watch all the shenanigans going on at the beach. Tons of silvery sand “Aunt Annie” hauled herself, serves as the beaconing backdrop for a new fire pit. Its fiery embers glow, impatiently waiting for hot dogs, brats, hamburgers and saving the best for last, the scrumptious, smeary s’mores. Y-U-M-M-Y!
Flowers on the long picnic table festoon a real tablecloth held down with pretty beach towels. There are also strategically placed long pronged forks ready for two little smiling girls to hold them, and gooey marshmallows soon to be sitting on graham cracker and Hershey chocolate thrones. It is so hot outside, the chocolate has already melted without assistance from the mushy mallows. Man, summer is grand!
And after lunch, what better than a little exploratory trip around the inside of “Aunt Annie’s” cabin. The cherubs ware enthralled by Annie’s antique gear, especially her humongous new safe holding her precious gun collection. Grammy is enchanted by the Red Rider daisy rifle of movie fame. “Aunt Annie” actually shoots it every summer at her friend’s home. What does she shoot? The ugliest Christmas ornaments that she and her friends collect all year long just for the occasion! The Ugly Ornament Contest, what a hoot.
Next comes a trip up to the loft, where the pups actually allow “Aunt Annie” to sleep in her gargantuan natural log bed. Not to be outdone, the doggies all have their own blanketed beds. It is a good thing everyone has great night vision and that ‘Aunt Annie” doesn’t drink. There are no railings!
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