Windows and Lawns and Music Oh My!

Mark and the Seed Broadcaster

How does friendship happen?  When you think you’re merely a groupie and then get to be a host and suddenly the music becomes secondary — almost! — you suddenly realize.  We’re friends!  How could that be?  Why ever would they choose us as friends?

Helen-the-Window-Washer

The Rose City Mixed Quartet was here this weekend.  They came first because Carol W. booked them to do the music for the final Vespers of the 2019 season.  They would stay here as they have always done in the past.  And we would host a Saturday evening House Concert.

Dale-the-Thatcher

And then, before you could even blink an eye, they said they wanted to be here “to help.”  And help they did!  They washed ALL of our windows inside and out.  They worked on our terrible, horrible, no good lawn — thatching, sowing, top-soiling, and watering.  They vacuumed with a much-better-than-ours vacuum cleaner that Dale’s mother sent with her regards.  (She’s in an assisted living place now and  has no use for it.)  They got rid of every cobweb in every corner of every ceiling and dusted the tops of picture frames I can’t even reach, much less see.

Cameron on the Cobweb-Hunt

Besides all that — they brought all the food for all the meals, Friday night through Sunday noon.  They brought sleeping bags which they put atop our beds so they wouldn’t leave dirty linens behind.  They even brought their own towels.  They left NO footprint in this house — except for the left-over food which is neatly packaged in our refrigerator or freezer.

Friendship doesn’t get better than that!  How do we ever reciprocate?  There is no adequate response to that question so it was left unspoken.  And that may be what true friendship is all about…  I can only hope that we can pay it forward somehow.

One Response to “Windows and Lawns and Music Oh My!”

  1. Betty kennedy says:

    Dear Nyel & Sydney,

    Because you have opened your home & heart you deserve the kindness of people who shared it. I am so glad we had the opportunity to have met you & Nyel. You shared your home, food & entertained us with a lovely concert. It was one of best times we spent.

    If it wasn’t so far, I’d gladly come to help you do those jobs. You are a grand lady & an energizer bunny. May you continue to weather the storms & share your kindness. Stay well!

    Our love,

    Tom & Betty

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