It's a bright sunny Saturday morning here and I am sipping coffee and playing on the net. I have only stopped now and then to take photos and make and get more coffee ! Some laundry is whispering behind me, but I'm pretending I don't hear. There is cleaner in the twalette doing it's thing till I come back and give it a scrub and there are numerous other cluttery places that are requesting to be addressed, but they can wait, they really have no choice in the matter.
It snowed again last night. That makes two weekends in a row ! I know to those folks that live farther north, what we have right now would not give you a moment's hesitation to go out and take care of business as usual, but we don't get that many snows here and most times not notably deep, so since we aren't use to it more frequently, it pretty much shuts us down.
This morning it was so beautiful all around, a bright, sunny 15 degrees(F)! I took this photo from my front porch. Again the horse are lazily grazing as if there is no snow at all.
Last night when it got dark between 5:30 and 6:00 pm, not a flake had fallen. Later though, when I turned on the back lights and looked out, snow was happily twirling down. I guess you can imagine I had to go back to look again and again as the evening and early hours of the night and morning went by. Something magical about snow. I prefer it in the day where I can enjoy seeing it more, but for some strange reason, I am not in charge of the timing of the weather. 😄
That also meant that I had to step out now and then and take some photos. Below are a few snow features that were on my back porch. I had wished this morning that I had tried to take a photo or two without the back light on, night time photos if you will, but honestly, it is nearly pitch black outside at night here. Alas, I didn't think to try.
I have added some random thoughts and maybe some silliness between each photo, that has nothing to do with them..... because I can.
First thing this morning, FB notified me that it was the birthday of a friend from the past. I lived in San Antonio, Texas for 6 years in my 40s, my midlife adventure and the last 4 or so years I was there, I shared the office with a young man named Joseph. There were just the two of us sharing that office, our computers in opposite corners which caused us to sit with our backs to each other. We got along famously. I had not heard from him in a couple of years and his phone number had disappeared with a stolen phone. When I got to his FB page I found that someone had posted that he had passed..... last February ! ....only 46 years young.... and I had not known it. It made me sad. Maybe I will make a post one day just to memorialize him on the chain. RIP Joseph
A little while ago I think I found a small potato chip crumb in my ear. Tiny and just on the edge. I did eat some chips last evening, but I swear I didn't eat them like Cookie Monster eats cookies with bits and pieces flying everywhere. All the same, it was there. Now I can't swear it was a potato chip crumb, but that is what it looked like and I wasn't going to eat it to find out. 🤣
When you are disenchanted with this world, can you just decide to move over to a parallel world you make up? Is that what people you see as "crazy" have done? Have they just move into a world of their own choosing and escaped from this one?
This week I became debt free. I have been nearly debt free for several years, but I have a credit card that backs my Amazon and Paypal, so there is nearly always something on it and I haven't always paid it completely off every month. I could have, but I didn't. This week I decided to clear it and I did. Of course I still have to pay my rent, utilities, insurance and the such, but no extra payments of any kind. I don't know how many years it's been since I was at point zero on that. Of course I might need to buy something else soon. LOL !!!!!
I've temporarily lost my purple pair of thermal pants. I did a load of laundry a couple of nights ago because I had worn my last clean pair. I wear them under my loungers during the day for warmth so I am not tempted to turn the heat up more. I hunted and hunted. They were not in the dirty clothes hamper and not draped across anything in my bedroom or wadded in the floor. I never wear them out of the house, so it's not like I could have taken them off and left them somewhere else. LOL !! I finally gave up. I know they are here unless I suddenly have thermal gremlins. I admit life throws in some curves, but thermal gremlins ???
I see the HIVE value plummeting. I have never cashed any out, still, I enjoyed see it fly, well, fly for me. When I came to HIVE it was about 80 cents. It went way down pretty fast after I got here and has stayed in the pits most of the time since I signed up, till the recent boost. It was fun seeing it go up and languish for a while. I liked the numbers that showed in my wallet. It was fun while it lasted.
I'm frequently a creative slacker. It is not a matter of having no ideas, I think of many, they pop through my head, but then I don't create them. Later I forget what most of them were. Sometimes I have jotted down an idea. Sometimes I have done a hurried sketch and noted colors. Later when I come across it again, the vision is not still there or it doesn't feel like anything good anymore. I still continue to jot notes and do quick shakey sketches.
Sometimes when I close my eyes at night, visual ideas pop up one after the other on the inside of my eyelids. I couldn't create them all even if I jumped up and ran to the art table ! The next morning?.... not there. I need something that will make a video of my visions.
⛄️ *The below photos I took this morning.
I just want to feel good. I just want to be happy. I don't ask for a lot.
I wrote the following sentence once and thought I would one day work it into something else I wrote. I don't remember now exactly what prompted it. Was it something on TV?.. the net?? I don't know.
"Her wrinkles matched her constant scowl."
I just remember it was a woman's face at rest, no smile, no expression, just her face, hanging there. That happens as you get older you know, parts of your face skin/muscles stop resisting gravity. I try to keep a barely perceptical smile on my face to make sure I don't look mad when I am out and about. LOL !! That is funny, you know it is. My droopy beginnings are not from scowling though, that is for sure.
You should be nice to yourself. You should do for yourself what you would do for others you love if they asked or came to visit. You should treat yourself like company.
Sometimes you just don't realize how good normal is, until things aren't normal anymore.
I would like to be a happiness enabler. Sometimes I think my natural humor makes me one.
I was walking through to get more coffee a while ago and this unfinished snowman painting told me I should take it outside and take a photo of it with real snow in the background, so I did. I hope it's happy now, because I didn't have on any shoes and that porch was COLD !!!
Ok....I think I'm done for this morning, that is now past noon. I hope that wherever you are, that you are well and that your heart is happy.
