Loose Leaf Notes

AKA: What goes up must come down

“Come on! You’ve ridden horseback in Chile. You can do this!” I encouraged my friend Katherine as she made her way up the long construction ladder at the Hotel Floyd building site. She, who had taken time off from her job at the Harvest Moon to meet me, was wearing a full length skirt, a white tunic, and a long white scarf draped down in front of her like a vestment – not your typical ladder climbing clothing.

“We thought the stairs would be ready by now,” Laura, the Hotel Floyd building manager said.

We were there to see The Floyd Writers Room, one of the themed hotel rooms being built that Katherine and I, both members of the Floyd Writers Circle, are helping to design and furnish.

Louis, the man who is doing the hotel website offered a hand. Once we were all safely up to the second floor suite, he pulled out his tape measure, called out some numbers, and I wrote them down in my notebook. “This is a lot of wall space,” my voice echoed. I was thinking about the framed art we would soon be shopping for.

Katherine hadn’t been up and off the ladder long when her cell phone rang. “Can you hold them off for twenty minutes?” I heard her say. From what I could tell she was on call to perform a wedding in the garden in front of the Harvest Moon, and the bride and groom were ready.

Wondering if people were walking off the street to get married, when she got off the phone, I asked, “Is it a planned wedding?”

“As much as a five-minute wedding is planned,” she answered.

Photos: 1. Louis makes his way down the ladder with Katherine and my pocketbooks hanging from either side of his shoulder as Laura looks on. 2. I got distracted by a woman on a pink scooter and by the time I made it over to the Harvest Moon the wedding was over, but isn’t the scene where it happened pretty? Have Weddings Will Travel Part I is HERE. You can read the story I wrote about the Floyd Writers Room for the Floyd Press HERE.