January 14, 2005
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I dreamed an elderly friend had inherited a home from an aunt. It was a bit run down, but otherwise very large with an extensive front and backyard.
Mostly I just sat around with her and her biddy friends while they nitpicked the house and gardens. We walked to the front yard with its flowers and series of fountains culminating in a pond. All the biddies started criticizing it and saying what they would do and how fountains were so gauche. Everytime they said something else, the garden got a little shabbier until it was just a bumch of wilting flowers (Lupine I think) a yucca plant and a bird bath. I could tell my friend was getting depressed, so I said that ponds and fountains were very lovely and gave the illusion of a much larger and natural area when done correctly. And the yard expaned and became full of flowers and a great pond and tree… much the same as it had been when they first started criticizing it.
All the biddies retired back to the kitchen while my friend and I went around the side of the house and continued to talk about the garden and what we would do. And of course, the garden continued to improve the more we praised it.
We went in through the backdoor and there were all the biddies sitting around the table in a dirty kitchen, surrounded by dead and dying potted plants. (I wonder if those plants were still alive when they sat down?) They mentioned a neighborhood yardsale going on and coerced my friend into accompanying them.
So we walked to the blockparty where one old lady had a display of quilts, but right away my friend recognized an embroidered one from her aunts home and demanded to know how the lady had got it because she knew that the lady had always coveted it (and it was expensive). The lady selling the quilts sniffed disdainfully and said that my friend’s friends had let her into the house and told her she could have anything she wanted. All she had wanted was the quilt. “So you could sell it?” I asked. And there the dream ended.
Comments (2)
oh man. so u dont kno if u got the quilt or not?
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Odd dream… I have had a HUGE thing for buying plants I wants Orchids but they are way to take care of .. also I need to find two oak saplings for my friends wedding ( it’s a celtic thing) any ideas I try local nursuries but they all look at me kinda weird.