Seeing RED!

So I'm at Home Depot spending way too much on potted plants when I see hanging pots of strawberries!

Ten Bucks. Hmm . . . this is either a really good idea or the world's most expensive strawberries.
I found the pot with the most buds on it, brought it home, unhooked the hanger and put it on my picnic table so it'd get the most sun.

drum roll . . . Ta da!

The strawberries are ripening!

The first day I got a total of 3! Then there were 4, 1, 5 to pick! That's a total of 13 sweet strawberries so far at a cost of  $.76 each. But I've got the rest of the summer to bring the price down, right? They're everbearing!

I'm also seeing red in my house! Tom heard me saying how starved I was for color in this house of beige and how it was driving me crazy but how I hate painting. That's a no win situation: go crazy or do something I hate? You decide. However, my hero that he is, Tom said he'd paint. AND for our anniversary (which, by the way, you ALL forgot but Tom and I remembered and that's what matters) he got me a gift certificate for paint and some paint chip decorating brochures from the hardware store. I spent a delightful afternoon drooling over colors and picked colors for the WHOLE HOUSE! Ah, yes. Here they are:

• Mustard Seed (dining room)
• Cinnamon Stick (kitchen)
• Hazy Sage (living room)
• Soothing Green Tea (entry and stairway)
• Antique Purple (accent wall)
• Corn Silk (master bedroom)

But we're starting out with the can of paint we bought over a year ago. I don't remember what the name of the color was, I only know it matched my red purse, which I love. So now we have a red bathroom (dark red, not strawberry or fire engine red) and we'll paint on from there. That's why this is titled Seeing RED! Red strawberries, red bathroom. I'm dreaming in color again!

WRITING UPDATE: I'm snagged on chapter 5 rewrite. Grrr! Why can't it just come out right? It's too glumpy and fuzzy. Clear thinking and compassionate, straight forward writing are needed.
Thanks for checking in on me.