40% chance of precipitation.
Kali thinks I can control this. Poor puppy! At least the rest of us have places inside for our needs. One word: Piddlepad.
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Per Linda:
Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is โwire.โ Use โwireโ as a noun or a verb or any way youโd like. Enjoy!
More slipper socks finished. Yay!
And the snow is falling. About an inch in an hour. Here’s the latest of my porch banister that was just wet and brown an hour ago:
(revised edit: two inches now at the finish of the blog)
That is the peaceful scene I wished for in December or January. Here we are early spring and I wanted to start getting out for walks. But I guess it is helping all of us stay inside and meditate our lives.
You know at any moment we all could have died. Let’s say by accident or gunshot or our own stupidity. I guess the risk-takers would have been more prone to death than those who live from a cautious point of view. It’s all according to how we are wired.
Heck, we have enough coyote-to-roadrunner ratio here that we could have been hit by:
The loss of life from any or all those incidences are devastating. Yet, they happen every day, bar the anvil. We try to protect ourselves as best we can from any of these, yet our thoughts don’t stray to or remain on the what-ifs.
Our new shared reality is built of constant worry on top of the regular worries of paying bills and surviving winter.
Some of us are wired to be gregarious. We must be around people at all times. Others of us are more of quiet wiring. Many taught to greet with a hug or handshake are shaken to bows or not even meeting people. Besides, who has toilet paper these days? You don’t want to shake that hand!
This is a time for the introverts to enjoy not feeling guilty for staying home, enjoying our own company. This is a time to reflect on how death has always been just around the corner. But facing that it may or may not be your own is hard to grab onto.
We came into this thinking it one more hoax, one more conspiracy. A joke. But even if so, life has come to a halt. Many I know are finding people they know have the virus. Many have it that can’t be tested. It is fear upon fear.
It is like we just opened a new book and we find ourselves in The Walking Dead or something like it. Panic is our worst enemy. Take a lesson from the disaster movies. Stay put and use your time to ponder.
I am finding it hard to listen to the constant fears of others. I’m 70 after all! I have lived a wonderful life. I have a great extended family and fantastic friends. I would hate, at any point in my life to have lost any of them.
At the same time, I have been the young mother as my young children romped about me. I chose not to take my children to see grandparents if any of us were even the slightest bit ill. So I don’t believe in my heart I cause their demise. Yet, at my age, I have lost many I have loved. This is something you never get used to. I assume if it happens on a large scale the loss will be overwhelming. Let’s hope that that doesn’t happen.
Meanwhile, what if we only have a few days to be alive? A few days to enjoy the amount of health we do have? Why spend our last moments worrying. Outside of proper precaution, what more can we do? I’m not saying ‘eat, drink, and be merry,’ I’m saying love your people. Spend as much time as you can by connecting in the ways earlier pandemics didn’t have: Skype, FaceTime, google chat. Talk on the phone if you can handle it. Write out your thoughts, email. If you are so inclined: write letters. I don’t know if sending the letters is advisable as others will have to touch and handle the mail to their detriment. But once this passes, and it will pass, there will be ways to reach out or remember each other.
I do believe we are wired to LOVE.
Going Bovine by Libba Bray
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
This book was recommended to me by a very good friend. I couldn’t afford to buy it at the time. Luckily the library had the Kindle and Overdrive versions. I seemed to like listening to the audio more than trying to track the Kindle.
Guys doing girl or women’s voices as it always sounds condescending, to me, but Erik Davies (Narrator), kept my interest and I soon lost the distraction of his female voice.
Though a serious subject matter, this story has you wondering what is happening and nearly breathlessly following the characters on their adventures to save the world and the main character, Cameron’s life.
It has been labeled “Quirky”. I agree! It is certainly worth the read.
Drums of Autumn by Diana Gabaldon
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Oops! I nearly forgot to review this one. I just moved into the next read (a library book).
I really wish I would have read this before the series on television. I liked the rhythm of the story better. I like the viewpoints presented here as Clair’s rather than Bree. It is different not having the information that comes with the daughter making the voyage back in time and back to America.
I think we got into Roger’s head a little more, too. It doesn’t take away from the show. It is actually interesting the take the directors and actors took the storyline without losing the story.
No spoilers here. Just glad I read (listened to the Audible) it and can’t wait to get into the next one!
Take care of yourself; live today and not the worries of tomorrow.
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Kali!
What?
Kali, we’re going Bye-bye!
Really?
To the vet?
Bleah!
But the trip in the new to us car was so smooth and we listened to music from my phone. No pain! The people at the vet were so sweet to her and she seemed happy to be there. Even the shots and nail trim didn’t seem to phase her. So she’s good for another year (three for the rabies shot). And I am not so scared of that long drive because it was nearly painless. Yay! Thanks to Kali’s Alma Mater I only had to pay $8 for the last part of the bill. Let’s have another YAY!
Now Kali sleeps.
Though painless the trip is long for all of us. I, too, had to nap when I got back.
I can’t think out a better post for this day!
I am runningย so lateย today , I haveย not hadย timeย to write a postย forย International Womenโs Day. I thought I ย would re-postย an SoCs from November 2016. Inย that post I paid tribute toย the ย womenย ofย WW1 ย and ย WW2 who ย took over ย all ย the ย jobs ย that the ย men ย who ย had ย been ย sent ย off ย to ย war ย left ย empty here in what ย was ย known then as ย Great ย Britain.
Not only did the women do these , sometimes very dangerous jobs,but they looked after the families and homes. Now I do not wish in any way to detract from the huge sacrifice of all the men who fought for our countries during the two wars .
First a poem.
Remember the women left back home.
They made the ammunition for Tommy
Dangerous work,they died too, it was not funny.
Women became officers of the law
Something never heard ofโฆ
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I love it when family and friends come to visit. I absolutely turn to jello and can’t find my keys to the new-to-me car I’m so sad.
Then I spend the ride home thinking about the good feelings of no bra, no shoes, and sweatpants. And fish and chips. And a wonderful newish car. I look at it and even though I am comfortable and self-soothed, and Kali snuggles, I miss the daylights out of my family and friends. Even the recommended Daylight Savings Time nap didn’t take away that sad.
Back to life as we know it. Watching Doc Martin season 9 while knitting and snuggles. I am feeling grateful for all the love, happiness, and health that surrounds me. I wish it for all of you, too!
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Per Linda:
Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is โfigure.โ Use the word โfigureโ any way youโd like. Have fun!
I didn’t know how to start or flow with the word figure. After all, that is more a left-brain sort of word rather than the right-brained sort that would work for me. So I looked at Pixabay.com and found this:
And it is amazing that today I got a gift from a friend via a mutual friend who came visiting today.
It had this in it:
I figure a friend who would send something like that to me knows me and loves me. What do you figure?
I figure I’m pretty lucky to be surrounded by love. And Christmas is going to be quite the tale (tail).
Sending out the love to all of you. Especially, my mermaid friend.
Hat number two with same Caron Simply Soft acrylic yarn. Soft Pink, Orchid, and black. It is a soft yarn. But I don’t think that it is a good sock or slipper yarn as it isn’t very stretchy. Because of that, I chose to use the e-wrap knit stitch. The brim was a garter stitch which is one row of knit, one row of purl. The rest just the e-wrap mentioned before. I made this one the same KB white loom, 72 pegs, fine-gauge that I used for the hat just before this one. I’ve started another with the black yarn hoping to make a hat for a little boy. I hope I can finish by tomorrow.
I haven’t decided whether or not to make pom-poms those the girly hats look like they might be even cuter with them. I’m not a fan of pom-poms but I love making them on the little tools for them.
I get to see the family tomorrow! I can hardly wait! Snow is expected so praying for a safe drive.
Hope you all have a wonderful weekend. Keep safe and healthy!
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