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I don't feel like making New Years' resolutions anymore but had promised myself to start posting more on here than I did last year - at least one post a month. I had meant to do it at the beginning of the month/year but it's taken me this long to manage it.
For me, posting in the morning always seemed to work best since I've always felt sharper in the early hours, but the only way I am going to be able to write these days is at night. I'm sure it's because when I was still working I was far more disciplined with my time. Now I find the couple of hours before bedtime is the quietest and thus easiest to get my thoughts together.
What should I write about? A lot has happened around here since Christmas. And the weather has been crazy so maybe I should start with that.
This is the GTA - Greater Toronto Area - it should be winter here! But we have not yet experienced appropriate weather except for a couple of snowfalls that melted almost immediately afterwards. Last weekend we got our biggest snowfall on Sunday which stayed around until now but the past few days have been very mild - in the 40's Fahrenheit - so it's melting. The grass under the snow is still green! It never went dormant yet! Some of my deciduous plants have not lost their leaves!
I don't know what to expect from my garden. The plants are probably all confused so I'll be interested to see how they do this year. It's a bit scary.
My son and his lovely girlfriend went to New York between Christmas and New Year's and came home on New Year's Eve Day because they thought it would be too crazy in NYC to stay for the New Year celebrations. They came to us after a 10-1/2 hour drive from where they were staying in Princeton, New Jersey. They took either an Uber or the train into New York to sight-see, feeling it was better to stay in Princeton, a town they loved.
They were most struck by Strawberry Fields, the tribute to John Lennon outside the apartment building where he was gunned down. I have a book about him that I wanted to give them but I couldn't find it after searching for an hour.
I decided that I need to clean out the basement. It's full of junk that has accumulated for years and most of it has to go. I dread to think of the horror it would be for my kids to have to clear out the house if something happened to Eddie and I. That's my main motivation.
My daughter in Vancouver wants to come home. It's rained there for 6 days in a row and she said she can't take it anymore. Since she suffers from depression (it's under control so no worries) she needs to see some sunlight some of the time. I told her, "Come! We are enjoying Spring already in January!"
They will probably head back when the kids finish school in June.
There's lots more to post about but I think I've written enough for now. I left out all the drama - and holy hell, there is a lot of it! I can get to that another day.
For me, posting in the morning always seemed to work best since I've always felt sharper in the early hours, but the only way I am going to be able to write these days is at night. I'm sure it's because when I was still working I was far more disciplined with my time. Now I find the couple of hours before bedtime is the quietest and thus easiest to get my thoughts together.
What should I write about? A lot has happened around here since Christmas. And the weather has been crazy so maybe I should start with that.
This is the GTA - Greater Toronto Area - it should be winter here! But we have not yet experienced appropriate weather except for a couple of snowfalls that melted almost immediately afterwards. Last weekend we got our biggest snowfall on Sunday which stayed around until now but the past few days have been very mild - in the 40's Fahrenheit - so it's melting. The grass under the snow is still green! It never went dormant yet! Some of my deciduous plants have not lost their leaves!
I don't know what to expect from my garden. The plants are probably all confused so I'll be interested to see how they do this year. It's a bit scary.
My son and his lovely girlfriend went to New York between Christmas and New Year's and came home on New Year's Eve Day because they thought it would be too crazy in NYC to stay for the New Year celebrations. They came to us after a 10-1/2 hour drive from where they were staying in Princeton, New Jersey. They took either an Uber or the train into New York to sight-see, feeling it was better to stay in Princeton, a town they loved.
They were most struck by Strawberry Fields, the tribute to John Lennon outside the apartment building where he was gunned down. I have a book about him that I wanted to give them but I couldn't find it after searching for an hour.
I decided that I need to clean out the basement. It's full of junk that has accumulated for years and most of it has to go. I dread to think of the horror it would be for my kids to have to clear out the house if something happened to Eddie and I. That's my main motivation.
My daughter in Vancouver wants to come home. It's rained there for 6 days in a row and she said she can't take it anymore. Since she suffers from depression (it's under control so no worries) she needs to see some sunlight some of the time. I told her, "Come! We are enjoying Spring already in January!"
They will probably head back when the kids finish school in June.
There's lots more to post about but I think I've written enough for now. I left out all the drama - and holy hell, there is a lot of it! I can get to that another day.