“I see great things in baseball.”
The sun has appeared. The ice and snow are actually melting. How lucky for us it will get cold again tonight and all that water will freeze. We are on a treadmill. Last night there were flurries. Tomorrow night will be the coldest night yet. If I go to a dictionary to look up winter, I’m going to see a picture of the pile of snow at the corner of my street, the icicles on my house and my car stuck trying to get up the hill. Winter has been redefined this year.
Gracie and I are going out later. I need cream for my coffee and cat food. I also need food for my soul. I’m thinking of my favorite sandwich and a whoopie pie. We are going to the dump first as we never made it last week with all the snow. Gracie will be glad. Me, not so much.
I seem to be talking to myself a whole lot more since my involuntary hibernation, but I am not yet hearing responses. I figure if I do, I’m probably too far along the crazy spectrum to find it peculiar. I might even enjoy it.
My inside winter uniform never changes style. I wear socks, slippers (alternating between my two pairs), a t-shirt with a sweatshirt over it and kick around the house pants, mostly flannel. I am not dressed for company, but I don’t worry as I don’t expect any. I am wearing my Red Sox sweatshirt, the most hopeful sweatshirt I own. It speaks of spring and summer, a reminder that someday Fenway will be clear of snow, hawkers will be selling Fenway franks, and we’ll be hearing the crack of the bat hitting the ball and maybe, just maybe, watching the ball sail over the Green Monster.
“Hope is the thing with feathers-That perches in the soul..” I always think Emily Dickinson is right and her description perfect.
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February 19, 2015 at 12:09 pm
Maggie and I freely acknowledge that Miss P is a beautiful hound and a worthy winner of the Westminster Dog Show. We would have appreciated a better effort from the Westie in the Terrier group but were slightly smitten by the Welsh Terrier that finished second.
It was cold this morning as we visited her run. I have just come to grips with the idea of Polar Vortex, and now I am told it is no such thing, that in fact we are the victims of the Siberian Express. Apparently if you loiter outside for 15 minutes you will be subject to frost bite, so Maggie was encouraged to show some urgency which is usually lacking
Van Morrison sent me an email announcing a duets album from his back catalog. He offered me the chance to listen to “Real Real Gone” with that Bubble fellow who has the Christmas specials. I really wished that I hadn’t. I was in a meeting last week with a chap from Belfast who knows Mr Morrison and promptly described him as “Rude and Unpleasant”. Bit of a pisser that.
February 19, 2015 at 3:15 pm
My Dear Hedley,
That was a beautiful Beagle. He was adorable. Boxers are seldom in the running, but they should be!
It is 27˚ right now and the sun has disappeared. We had snow squalls for a while earlier. I think I heard screaming just as the snow started. It ill be 0˚ tonight and even colder tomorrow night.
The Bubble fellow is so far off my radar he’s on another planet. I have’t really been much of a Van fan either.
February 19, 2015 at 1:25 pm
It is so warm here now that I walk barefoot when I’m at home and the roads are wonderful to drive on since all snow is gone. We can strill get real winter until late April so I won’t shout hurray yet. Strong winds all the time though but as long as they come from the right direction so I only hear them I won’t care.
The influenza is hitting Sweden right now so I’m just waiting for it to hit me too 🙂 I might already had it though, the cold I got before Christmas hasn’t left me yet, it’s amazing how persistent they can be!
have a great day!
Christer.
February 19, 2015 at 3:24 pm
Christer,
Where are you? It sounds like a tropical isle. If I went barefoot, my feet would freeze and my toes fall off. The winds have stopped finally.
The flu has been around all winter bouncing from state to state. I had my flu shot but found out it isn’t good for this strain of flu. Luckily I didn’t get it.
Have a wonderful evening!
February 20, 2015 at 8:34 am
None of the flu shots they have here are good for any strain that hangs around 🙂 I read about it a few days ago.
February 20, 2015 at 10:38 am
Christer,
As I said, it is the same here.
February 19, 2015 at 2:41 pm
This is a bit of Lesley Gore trivia (although I hardly find it trivial).
In 1996, Lesley wrote the lyrics (music by David Baerwald and Larry Klein — Joni Mitchell’s ex) to a song for the soundtrack of “Grace Of My Heart.” It’s a beautiful, personal song that Lesley struggled with until she got it “right” because of the subject matter, which pretty much mirrors her own struggles with her sexuality. The song, “My Secret Love,” is performed by Miss Lily Banquette (Liz Cox), singer for the group Combustible Edison. To my knowledge, Lesley never recorded it herself.
February 19, 2015 at 3:26 pm
im6,
“Girls like me have to hide our hearts away,” is really sad. The whole song is actually with words like secret love and causing you. I can understand why it took so long to write this. It had to have been painful just putting the words down.
February 19, 2015 at 3:31 pm
Hi Kat,
I’ve run out of energy to scream about the weather. It started out sunny after leaving 3 inches of flurries overnight. It soon clouded over and snowed off and on for most of the day. The sky is brightening now but it’s not sunny.
I tried to use this not so cold day to shovel off the back steps but I was not able to get all the way down there.The back door remains blocked by a huge drift of snow that covers the stairs and half the height of the door. The stairs are quite high off the ground, too. After the rain that’s expected this weekend, it’ll be frozen in place until July.
Being a hermit is not all it’s cracked up to be. Knitting tonight for the first time in a month so I’m going. Real people will be refreshing. 🙂
Enjoy the day.
February 19, 2015 at 3:34 pm
Hi Caryn,
I can see the sun getting into setting position. It is a giant light behind the clouds.
Gracie and I got a lot done today. She came with me into Agway and enjoy our shopping expedition. At Rings, I bought her 2 special biscuits. She waited while I got my sandwich and didn’t even touch the food in the car. Either she was very good or I’d hidden it well.
I am happy to be home as it was getting colder. Gracie is napping and I think it’s good idea.
I could never survive as a hermit!
Enjoy the evening.
February 19, 2015 at 10:29 pm
Next Friday the pitchers and the catchers will report to Surprise Arizona to open Spring Training for the Texas Rangers. I assume the rest of the teams will also start their Spring Training. The best day of the year is opening day of the regular season because every team is in first place. Hopefully they will have removed the snow from the out field in Fenway Park by opening day. 🙂 The way this winter is going you might have to eat frozen Easter eggs.
Today the sun was shining and it was 60 degrees when I headed home at five thirty. There’s another winter blast coming on Sunday with a chance of sleet or snow flurries on Monday morning.
February 19, 2015 at 10:37 pm
Bob,
I am reading baseball news already. Many of the Red Sox reported early. Truck Day was last week. It has become a tradition for a crowd to celebrate the equipment truck leaving for spring training-only in Boston.
You’re right about the field at Fenway. It is so filled with snow I can’t imagine it being gone by opening day. The Easter egg hunt can be for frozen eggs in snow piles.
We are expecting bitterly cold weather and snow flurries. It will be 0˚.
The mayor has warmed college students to stop diving from windows into the snow.