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“Sometimes it takes sadness to know happiness, noise to appreciate silence and absence to value presence. “

April 28, 2020

Yesterday was the watershed moment for me. It was the I can’t take it anymore day. I yelled at Henry and Jack. I would have yelled at Gwen but she was upstairs. I admit a few expletives escaped from my lips aimed at nobody, just the situation. I watched a movie I don’t even remember. I just remember it was a terrible movie, and it made me cry. Movies don’t make me cry. Situations do.

Today is a different day, at least for me though not for the weather. It is dismal, cold and damp. Right now it is 40˚ and showers are predicted for later. I have no outside plans, just inside. I’m okay with that. I vented well yesterday.

The dust has returned. I am losing the battle. I’m going to clean the house a bit today in case of company. That last sentence was sarcastic.

I’ve almost reached the clean out my cabinet stage of isolation. Periodically, when I get massively bored, I check the expiration dates on jars and such. I have found jars in the back with dates like 2017 yet I still load from the front. It is just easier.

My bananas are almost black so banana bread is in my future. I guess I have reached the frenzied baking- cooking stage.

Henry has been with me two years this month. He was a skinny 8 month old puppy when he came here. He has grown to be a handsome, muscular dog, but he still has his quirks and still growls at the front door when someone is there. That’s what we’ll work on next. I haven’t told Henry yet, but he is due at the vets for a shot and a nail cutting. He does hate the car.

It is often still cold, especially at night when it goes down to the 30’s, but every day more flowers bloom. Color has come to the front garden.The grass is growing, my day lilies have buds and the ivy is growing way up the pine tree’s trunk. Spring is really here.

Life Is a Waiting Game

April 23, 2020

Sorry about the music. It will be posted later. Right now I have to change the litter, consolidate trash bags, fill the car and get to the dump. The music will be back later this afternoon.

See you then!

For the Roses: Joni Mitchell

April 7, 2020

Don’t Forget to Turn Your Clocks Ahead!

March 9, 2019

Rockin’ Bicycle: Fats Domino

February 23, 2019

Stardust: Nat King Cole

February 21, 2019

Fly Me To The Moon: Frank Sinatra

February 19, 2019

Our Movie: Glen Campbell

February 16, 2019

“The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.”

February 15, 2019

Earlier I had an errand at a local library which is the reason for the lateness of my post. I got dressed and left even before I’d finished the papers. It was sunny and 45˚ when I got into the car. All of a sudden it was cloudy and rainy, a light rain at first then a heavy rain then it stopped almost as quickly as it had begun. Now the sky is cloudy and a strong wind is blowing. I don’t care. I’m home and comfortable and going nowhere.

Here is my bad movie for the day: 500 MPH Storm. The scientist saves us all by directing a beam at they of the storm. He is with his wife and teenage son, probably 17 or so, saving them from the storm. The kid is a whiner castigating his father the whole way. He cries and calls for his mother. I’d have let the storm take the kid. I began to think of him as storm bait, maybe a sacrifice like a virgin thrown into a volcano to please the gods.

Winter makes me lazy. A freezing day keeps me inside. I want warmth and comfort. I want chicken noodle soup or maybe tomato soup and a grilled cheese sandwich. I want my afghan wrapped around me and my dog beside me. Languid is the word of the day.

I don’t mind eating the apple peel, and I like the crusts of bread toasted. I used to spit out orange seeds. Now there aren’t any. Because I hate cutting around the pit of a mango, I looked it up on Google and watched a video, but I still think a mango is a lot of work. Bananas should be peeled from the opposite end of the pointed tip. Most people don’t peel their bananas that way. Monkeys do. You need a sharp knife to cut a pineapple. I buy already cut fresh pineapple. It’s far easier. When I eat fruit, I have to share with Henry. His favorite is kiwi.

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”

January 21, 2019

This tribute is from last year’s Martin Luther King Day.

Today is Martin Luther King Day. These are excerpts from Martin Luther King’s speech delivered on August 28, 1963 at the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington.

“And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.”

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

I have a dream today!

And this will be the day — this will be the day when all of God’s children will be able to sing with new meaning:

My country ’tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. 

Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrim’s pride, 

From every mountainside, let freedom ring! 

And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true.”