Ten on Tensday: Ten things you miss about home when you go away

1.  Tea and coffee.  Most places have miserable excuses for both beverages.  The worst?  Tea and coffee at altitude.  The water never reaches 212 degrees.  The higher you go, the worse it gets.

2.  My wine stash.  There is no restaurant that is more cost effective, or with a selection so uniquely tailored to my preferences.  

3.  Spinning wheels.   Not worth the effort to bring even the travel wheel on a plane.  Spindles don't count.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

4.  My bed.  Don't we all miss our own?                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

5.  The familiarity of my own bathroom.

  

6.  My porch during the warm months.  I cannot believe the hummingbirds survive without me.                                                    

7.  Exercise routines.  It is the rare hotel that has what I use.  And then you have to WAIT for the only elliptical.  Bleah.                                                                                                                                                                                                          

8.  Calorie control.  It is so hard to eat out and stay within reasonable limits.  And the food isn't always even worth the splurge.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 

9.  ALL my knitting.  Sometimes a grrl just has to start something new.  The pre-vacation knitting planning hasn't always factored that into the knitting equation.                                                                                                                                     

10.  My landscape.  The deck containers spring/summer/fall.  The snow on the evergreens.  The birds at the feeder.  All the peaceful things.                                                                                                                                                                          

Four or five years ago, I went to Logee Greenhouses in Connecticut.  I brought home a slip of a plant

that struggled and struggled for years.  Finally, last year, it began taking over the family roomiverse.  And this year, it flowered.  Now I understand why people throw parties for their night-blooming cereus.

Comments

[Angie]

OH, MY. I'd stay up all night looking at it. Does it have a scent?

If you miss having a wheel all that much, how about an e-spinner? I have considered ordering one and having delivered to my mother's house so I'd only have to carry it home afterwards.

[Anne]

Wow - that's a stunner. In general, while I like the concept of travel, the reality ... eh.. not so much.

[margene]

We are lovers of our stuff and our routines. So, that's what a night-blooming cereus looks like. It was mentioned in The Warmth of Other Suns (and one other book I've read) and I've always wondered at the wonder of this flower. Now I know why.

[Manise]

That is a beauty! Glad it decided to perform after all this time.

[Carole]

That is a gorgeous bloom! And also, a great list. I'm with you on hotel exercise rooms - they suck.

[Etherknitter]

Many cereus do have scent.  I was disappointed to find out mine didnt.  Harrumpf.  But it was such a beautiful girl, I forgave it.

Am hovering around the espinner.  Not yet.  Probably need to sell a wheel first.  Does seem handy for workshops and travel, more than the little Pocket Wheel.  Which has really low ratios.  Which makes it a difficult workshop wheel.

L

[gayle]

Oh, my. That flower...
I miss my books. Especially my knitting books. I know just which book I want and the shelf it's on and the page I want to consult, and it's sitting miles and miles and miles away.

[Caroline M]

Even with a two page packing list that's been planned for weeks there's always something I need but didn't bring. I miss my bed the most, usually I've just got used to the alien one by the time I'm due to come home.

I used to have a succulent with long flat leaves and a flower similar to that but red. Forty five years have passed and now I can't remember what it was.

[Judith]

My toiletries. At home I have big bottles of shampoo, conditioner, body wash, face wash, and others. When traveling, I either take little bottles and fear I'll run out, or pack big bottles that take up precious luggage space. Yes, I could use the hotel shampoo and soap, but I sometimes end up with frizzy hair and itchy skin.

[June]

The Hansen spinner is a nice wheel. That's all I'm saying.

I pretty much haven given up the idea of travel for the next decade or so.