House Sitting

Summer

Mother's Day

An early gift... flowers and a drawing.

Dirty Laundry

One car filled with dirty laundry.
Two loads of colors.
One mine; one somebody else's.
Lots of little children.
Five shirts.
Two pairs of pants.
One beer soaked hoody.
Six pairs of socks; one stranded.
Seven pairs of underwear.
Do you call them pairs?
Seven arcade cabinets.
Two television sets; two spanish language shows.
One missed call.
One brief conversation (with the girl on the phone).
One briefer conversation (with the woman nearby: "Why are you taking pictures of the cart?").
One long conversation (with the man upstairs).
Fourteen quarters.
One box of detergent.
One book on mathematics (not mine).
Two and a half chapters from the book of Daniel (mine).
Twelve songs from an iPod; three of them from the Beatles.
One hour forty-five minutes of time.
Less than a quarter tank of gas.
Twenty-seven pictures.
Five online.