New Desk!

We’ve been having some wonderful Good Fortune since arriving in Marin. I will be writing more about these gifts here. The most recent occurred a few days ago when we went for a Sunday bike ride. Frequently I let Jeph choose a route for us, but something compelled me to suggest we ride over to Fairfax, which we had done once before, shortly after moving into our new home. It’s a nice flat ride and a good chunk of it is on a side road which gets very little through traffic. So, it’s quite relaxing because you’re not dodging cars, or climbing hills. The part of San Anselmo it passes through is a sweet little neighborhood, too; there’s just something about it I like.

As we passed through that neighborhood a flash of color caught both of our attention at the same time. We pulled over to find two old 2-drawer file cabinets and a white laminate desktop, set up as a desk and sitting there on the sidewalk with a big “FREE” sign on it. Oh My God – that is exactly what I have been envisioning for my office/our studio, for several years really and even more vividly since finding our fabulous home. There it was – my vision turned into form, and the magic word: FREE. Of course we wanted it – it was perfect – but we needed to ride home and get the car. So we wrote “Please Save for Foust/LaRue – we will be back in 45 minutes” on it, took a quick detour up a steep hill to check out a great view of the hills around us, then booked home, got the car and drove back. It was a relief to find them still there, waiting for us. They fit easily into the RAV (which always pulls through for us.)

Back at home, Jeph gave everything a good scrubbing while I cleared a space in my office.  The width of the desktop fits perfectly into the space between my desk and the side door. That’s more good fortune because there is Really no other place for it in the apartment. So there it is, the desk/workspace we’ve been wanting and needing for a good long time. Just like our new home, it was worth the wait.

A big THANK-YOU to the person(s) who made set it free so we could give it a home!