“Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.”
The day is sunny and is supposed to be in the high 40’s, but the wind is making it feel far colder. Gracie, though, has been outside most of the morning. I guess wearing a fur coat helps.
Oh the pain, the pain!! My Red Sox lost the opener. Jon Lester was off his game and Carl Crawford didn’t get a hit. He actually struck out three times. The highpoints were few but heartwarming. David Ortiz hit a home run, Adrian Gonzalvez went two for four and Jacoby Ellsbury stole his first base of the season. My friends and I wore our Red Sox sweatshirts and socks and cheered and moaned in unison. We ate appetizers and then had pizza delivered. If it weren’t for the loss, the evening would have been great fun.
Today is my do chores at home day, but I can’t really complain as I have so few of them. Most times my stay home day is reading and lounging and being a sloth. Among my chores today are laundry, trash and litter boxes then it’s back to being a sloth.
My front garden has blooming flowers in yellow, pink and purple. I don’t know the names of all of them, but the crocus have been up a while, and I can see the flowers of the hyacinths so they aren’t so far away. I planted these bulbs last year, but I thought the squirrels had eaten most of them. How lovely a surprise to see so many survived.
I can still see all my neighbors’ houses through the naked branches of the trees in the backyard. Once their leaves arrive, though, the houses will disappear, and I’ll sit on my deck among the trees and think I’m Tarzan and Jane’s neighbor. Gracie and the birds will provide the sounds, not quite from the jungle though, but still enough to make me think I’m far away from my street and my town and the suburbs.
I have organized all my Ghanaian pictures on my new Mac. Next I’m going to figure out how to add music. I’ll then make a duplicate with captions and send it along to Tim, another RPCV from Ghana. He has already made a DVD from his slides and those of two other returned volunteers. Peace Corps Ghana has been asking for archival items as part of the 50th anniversary. I hope to bring them copies of my slides and the combined ones. I look at my slides and can’t believe how young I was. Forty years has passed far too quickly.
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April 2, 2011 at 11:33 am
It has been a gray and somewhat foggy day here, but we actually reached 56,4F!
Sorry about Your team loosing, it seems the Pirates won´t play until later today. Looking at the statistics they won´t win though 🙂 :-). But at least the season has started.
I really would like to vacuum the floors now, but since Nova is terrified of the vacuum cleaner I´ll have to bring her out to the dog yard and that can´t be done now when it´s so close to the surgery. So I swept the floors with a tiny brush instead 🙂 🙂 🙂
Have a great day now!
Christer.
April 2, 2011 at 7:23 pm
Christer,
Wow, we haven’t yet been that warm though I think we did hit 50° once this year.
I did my chores and felt quite noble. Tomorrow I have to go to the dump to get rid off all the trash bags.
Today I spent the day watching the scifi channel. It was meteor day and in every movie, the Earth was saved!
April 2, 2011 at 11:34 am
It’s okay. John Lackey is pitching tonight. And I’m sure D-Bard will get a stern talking-to. The last time we lost a home opener was in 2007… so maybe this is a good sign?
April 2, 2011 at 7:24 pm
toosoxy,
Thanks for the 2007 reminder. I figure D-Bard will only be one of the players having a heart to heart with Tito.
I’ll be watching tonight!
April 2, 2011 at 9:53 pm
Lackey sucks. I knew this and yet I STILL somehow managed to draft him on my Fantasy Baseball team.
Waivers is what pitchers like Lackey was made for.
s
April 3, 2011 at 11:41 am
S,
Lackey sucked at the beginning of the season last year but had a good August. I, however, haven’t the patience to wait!
April 2, 2011 at 7:05 pm
When we talked about early retirement plans, travel the world why you still have your health, we built this house on an acre and a half and are totally secluded from neighbors and street noise. It’s a long walk to the mailbox which is why we jump out of our cars to check it as we come and go. I don’t think I could live in the burb again. This place has spoiled us. But no one knows what the aging process has in store for us. I hope the plan for me doesn’t include a nursing home.
April 2, 2011 at 7:26 pm
Z&Me,
I live on a very quiet street with only 8 houses. Two of the houses are second homes so they are seldom occupied. I think my deck is about the nosiest place in the summer.
I never thought of early retirement as it hadn’t been offered in years. When it was, I was astonished but leapt on it right away. I am still thrilled with my choice.