I got 10 hours of sleep last night.. which is about the same amount of sleep I’d gotten in the previous 4 days combined.. it was wonderful. I awoke refresh and empty headed.. thinking of nothing.. with nothing to do for the day.. I can’t even remember the last time that happened. It isn’t like I don’t have a ‘todo’ list.. it was just that I didn’t wake up thinking about it.. a minor breakthrough.. I guess..
I did have one major goal today.. aside from relaxing.. and that was to finish paining the bell tower.. the tiny room at the top of our house that I use as an office. It’s a small space.. but a tricky one to paint.. i think the ceiling is about 18 feet tall at the peak.. Diane did a fantastic job finishing up the walls and ceiling trim.. all that remained was the final trim on the ceiling.> So I spent most of the day on a tiny platform about 10 feet in the air with a tiny artist’s brush filling in all the tiny nooks and cranys of where the beaded ceiling meets the arched supports that support the cupola .. It was painstakingly mindless work.. just the thing to decelerate after a whirlwind week..
One treat was the view from the tower windows as I painted.. The fall colors are past peak.. .. but then.. so am I ..

nite all.. nite sam
-me