[ The side of the room occupied by my bed. Instead of a hunk of plywood screwed directly to the wall, there’s now a window. The window itself is solid white, much of the arched ceiling’s insulation is still uncovered, and my room is a mess, but it’s a mess with light on it now. ]
Something like two & a half years ago, while in the process of building the loft I was going to be living in, I made the mistake of leaning a bit of my weight against one of the windows I’d planned to put in as it lay on the floor. The glass, of course, cracked.
Fast forward to a couple weeks ago, when I FINALLY managed to take it to a glass place to get it fixed.
& then, not a week after I’d brought it back, PUT IT IN THE WINDOW FRAME.
(it doesn’t QUITE fit. I’ll need to do some stuff before it, you know, OPENS. I had to mildly threaten it with a hammer. BUT it’s in the frame & hasn’t fallen out, so for now, it’ll do.)
I now have TWO windows with flat spaces under them to hold plants!
[ Beneath the window is a low set of drawers. On top of that are a whole bunch of smallish aloe plants, planted in a variety of soda & bean cans. A bit of Mount Blanca, overexposed and yellowish, can be seen through the window. ]
I haven’t moved the big hanging aloe over yet, but I need to do that. & I’m gonna stop in at the local gas station cafe/convenience store & see if they’ll let me have a baby or two off of their big-ass spider plant. More light means more plants!
… also more energy. It took me about a week to get used to it but this is my third ‘I got SO MUCH STUFF DONE’ day in a row. I’m extremely solar powered, is what.
Plus the VIEW.
[ A view out a window: the walls around it are black, the tops of a few aloe plants are barely visible below, and part of the headboard blocks part of the window; but out the window is a sea of low, brown plant life, leading up to Mount Blanca, a many-peaked, snowcapped mountain. Above that is that deep blue Colorado sky. ]
All I gotta do when I’m sitting at my desk is turn left, & I get to see THAT.
It’s SO good.
