暖冬cool夏
這裏一年四季溫暖如春，沒有酷暑沒有嚴寒......
因為家小，所以已經不添家具了。疫情在家上班，也就是在主臥一角靠牆處放了一張小桌子，上麵放上公司的手提電腦，和一些簡單的辦公用品。眼睛老花的加劇讓我越來越不適應手提電腦這樣的小屏幕，一天下來眼睛太累，不得已我架上了老花鏡。某人倒是說過給我換大屏幕，可想想桌子太小，加上拎著手提電腦上上下下很方便，就一直拖著。
後來公司說，另一處的辦公樓不打算租了，裏麵的椅子桌子可以送給員工。就這樣，我要了一把辦公室的好椅子(比自家Costco買的還要舒服)，一張很新的桌子，又問IT要了一台大大的monitor，就此準備長期在家備戰。
扛回家中，先暫時擺在樓下的客廳裏。長長的桌麵，靠窗擺著，坐在正對著窗的桌邊，感覺特別亮堂，一改坐在樓上小桌子前的拘束和相對的幽暗。因為桌子比較長，擺上了公司電腦後還有很多空地，還可以再擺一台自己的電腦，感覺真好:))
感恩節在家休息，早晨起來後一個人下樓，燉上一鍋粥後，便坐在了這張書桌前，拉開窗簾看書做筆記。冬日的陽光照著鄰家的黃瓦屋頂上，和聳立一旁的白色尖頂裝飾。湛藍的天空，一碧如洗。打開窗，秋冬清冽的空氣隨之而來，靜靜的四周間斷性地傳來鄰居家鸚鵡嘎嘎的叫聲。漸漸地，陽光開始照到我家後院，一點點從左邊轉到右邊，從火龍果枝條移到枇杷樹梢上。雖然冬日的陽光是照不進這朝西的窗戶和房間的，但是滿目的陽光已經讓我感覺到它的溫暖。
某人從樓上下來，看見了說，"這樣的桌子你一個人用很享受吧"，說完走近要重新擺一擺台燈，說要讓"暖冬居"更溫馨。可能"暖冬居"這三個字說出口又覺得有點拗口，馬上又腦筋急轉彎說，人家有"百草園"，你這個就叫"枇杷園"。
"枇杷園"，我抬頭看著窗外的枇杷樹，想象著它明年四五月碩果累累時的金黃，笑著說道，"名字不錯，就叫枇杷園，改明我出書了，也學別人落款--某年某月於枇杷園。我繼續自我嬉笑道。"隻可惜了這客廳被這一張桌子一擺，更小了，也有點不搭了"。
"你知道嗎，現在的新房結構已經把廳的功能弱化了......"某人及時地供應著新信息。
想想也是，疫情下人與人的交往隻限於空中，如果一切恢複正常，又有多少朋友會常來家裏聚聚呢? 人老了，其實朋友也少了。
隨後，我從樓上拿來幾塊我喜歡的石頭，放在窗沿邊，又找出2010上海世博會上浙江館送的兩個小陶瓷碟，盛上水，將其餘幾顆小的放入水中。並擺出裝有自己年輕時照片的相框，頗有幾分占山為王的架勢，臨近中午時分，已經很少拍照的我主動提出讓某人幫著自己和枇杷樹照了一張像，讓2020年十一月二十九日定格在了相片中。若幹年後看到這張照片一定會想起這一天，疫情下的一個周日，因著一張書桌，一個玩笑，有了這樣一段片刻的遐想......
When the new desk was fetched from the office in mid-November (11/14), we placed it at the living room, temporarily, as he thought of replacing his desk upstairs. But the empty white desk, long, clean and setting across the window, was inviting. One day I chose to sit by and work for a whole day. The striking contrast between sitting behind a small table against the walls and a long one against a window made me cling to it, and the fondness only grew by days, when my own personal laptop could now sit side by side without squeeze.
This Thanksgiving was quiet and non-festive. Though still some house chores around, the cooking wasn’t heavy. Alone downstairs in the mornings was my time of reading for the days. The crisp air was let in through the open window, along with sporadic sounds of the chirping birds. The neighbor’s parrot squawked occasionally, its noises loud but muffled from the closed window, breaking the morning peace. The sun came out early, soaking the neighbor’s orange roof, the nearby white spire and the distant pine tree top. The sky was cloudless blue. As the clock ticked by, the sun began to bestow upon my garden. It first reached the sprawling dragon fruit on the high trellis, and then gradually suffused the top of the loquat tree. The early bloomed loquat flowers are in its first stage of fruiting, but late bloomers are still flowering, attracting bees and hummingbirds for the honey.
He came downstairs for late breakfast. Seeing me by the table reading, he came over to better postion the desk lamp, jesting that if one day I were to publish a book, this dubbed “loquat corner”, as it faces the loquat tree in the backyard, should be mentioned in the preface :)
暖冬現在周末還爬山嗎？周末快樂！
問好！
都說世紀瘟疫過後，人的生活習慣也會改變了，暖冬妹妹的公司，員工在家上班，節約成本，效益猛增真是太好了！說不定暖冬妹妹以後一直就在家上班，少了很多交談，辦公室 politics 的麻煩呢。。也很美啊！
我也很受妹妹啟發，要把我讀書的地方也挪一下，改變采光和視野，是不是可以改變讀不進書人的讀書效率呢？:-(
周末愉快。
生活中的小故事很溫馨，把某人幫著暖冬和枇杷樹照的照片給我們分享一下啊：））
問好暖冬！
暖冬居，枇杷園，多麽溫馨雅致，喜歡！換季時可華麗轉身為cool夏苑。：）
Dedicated to My Love. ^_^
— 聽上去很美好
我在晚餐廳辦公， dinning table 很寬敞 ：）