Okay, at the end of Sunday night, I was really really cranky. There was no reason for this. I’d had a great day and was on a roll and people came for dinner and it was fun and then… I dunno… My moods can be mercurial although I have slowly and incrementally settled down throughout my adult life, watching my babies grow up into successful women and gaining success in a job I totally fell into. Alas, I still have my moments.

The GG and I were heading off to bed and I was still grumpy and then… Out of the blue he asked, “Have you slept in the Lyme Lounge at all this summer?” Well, no. I often sleep in the Lyme Lounge when we have an overflow of people bunking in the moomincabin. I would never put up a guest in a camping trailer unless they were really hot to sleep there. Also, a lot of people are way too tall to be comfortable sleeping in the Lyme Lounge. The GG and I are about at the upper end of comfort there.

But also, this summer, although we had lots of people around most of the time, they were not bunking at the moomin although we almost always ate dinner there together. Anyway. I was ensconced in the Little Bedroom next to the bathroom. It is my childhood bedroom although back then there was a bunk bed for me and my brother. And a dresser (or two?) plastered with monster stickers from the grocery store checkout aisle.

For whatever reason, the thought of sleeping in the Lyme Lounge IMMEDIATELY pulled me out of my stoopid funk. YES! We slept in the monster bedroom that night but yesterday morning I washed my sleeping bag and we had the best sleep out in the Lyme Lounge last night surrounded by crickets singing their song. I don’t normally have trouble sleeping in any case but this was extra good. Since the weather continues to be warm, I think we will continue to sleep out there until it, uh, isn’t warm.

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