Hi Terry,
You said that you like simple things, well, you'd really like me then.
No seriously,
Moving stuff around is good, we buy something nice like an ornament and it slowly blends into OUR HOME. We might pick it up to dust but otherwise it sits there un-noticed until a friend says, ''I like that.......'' and we are suddenly animated into explaning what it is, where it came from, what it means to us etc. Go and take a look again at something you bought, just for decoration. Does it still look as good?
My wife has another reason for moving stuff.
We are not a house-proud family. We are doers. We are always working in the garden, on the computer, planning this or that, tooooooo busy for all that housework. We don't not do it, but we are not slaves to the house. Every now and then my wife will decide to spring-clean. I come home and wonder if I'm in the right house. Something she bought to store vegetables in is suddenly out of favour and is now in the thrift shop bag. The parrot needed a new view so he's by the window. The spoons aren't where they were etc. I think that she should be a supermarket planner. Do they do that in America too? Just when your used to where everthing is, they move it. Keeps us alert.
Terry, your comment about peace and tranquility is so right. I used to work in the Capital, London. The best part of the day was, after a noisy day in traffic etc. , then a noisy train journey home, to step out of the train station in the countryside where we live and 'hear the birds and feel the breeze' oooooh bliss.
OOOOOOOh, Chocolatey fudge.
Tell me. Why did my Father's Dinner taste better than mine. I might have something for lunch and then my father would come home in the evening and be served the same thing. I would ask dad for a bit of his meat, or sausage or rice, whatever, BUT it always tasted better. Why?
I hope Mary planted that plant we talked about the other week, right over the other side of the reservoir.
Must go,
Got to do something extraordinary, why not,
Roger