Three Beautiful Things 03-22-2022: Comfort, Yakkin' for Hours, Copper and Luna in the Living Room

1. Debbie and I always have things about our life together on the table. We've had improving our houses's heating/cooling system on the table ever since we moved here. It's off the table now. We are going for it.

2. We arrived at our decision over a couple of excellent IPAs: Heretic Brewing's Evil 3 and Revision Brewing's Pour Decisions (!). It didn't take long to make our home improvement decision and soon, with the help of popcorn, our conversation wandered all over the place -- we talked about Bob Dylan, song writing, song writers, our experiences with multi-cultural education, current political realities; we talked about geography, disappointments, new understandings we've arrived at as we've aged, and our upcoming trip to Eugene. It was a good, several hours long session of good, serious yakkin'. I'm used to yakkin' like this with Debbie at Radio Brewing or, in Eugene, at 16 Tons or Cornucopia or in the now lost days of Billy Mac's.  It was fun to have one of these fruitful rambling sessions in our living room. 

3. Copper and Luna enjoyed some bonus time in the living room early this afternoon. Debbie took Gibbs upstairs and she took a nap. Luna loves the ottoman. It's in front of our living room's picture window and is a good sun bathing spot. Luna curled up and relaxed there. Copper perched himself on the arm of one of our living room chairs. From there, he could look out the window, be close to me (but not too close!). Every once in a while, though, Copper jumped down from the chair, came over to me, put his front paws on my chair, and let his body language tell me he wanted to be petted. He does this with me in the Vizio room, too, but he never jumps up into my lap. Sometimes he seems on the verge of joining me in a chair, but he always retreats. At night, however, Copper sleeps against my legs. He makes contact that lasts all night, so he's closed the gap while we sleep, but not when we are awake. 

After a while, Debbie and Gibbs came back to the living room and Copper and Luna dashed into the safe confines of the Vizio room and rested in their appointed places, happy to have had their relaxing time in our living room.