Yesterday I was not SAD!!

My daughter sent me a text yesterday and reminded me that it was going to be cloudy.  She was right. And to also make sure that I had lights on in the house.

Now when I grew up, back in the days when the dinosaurs roamed the earth, we didn't---did not--that's DID NOT turn on lights in the daytime. I don't care how cloudy it was outside or how foggy or how smoggy--no lights until the sun went down. Whenever that was -- if you knew when it happened.

So, I was just doing what I had learned.

But then we lived in England for 6 years and it's dark there. It doesn't even get daylight until 9 or even 10 in the morning in December and January.

I should have known, BUT

We are all what we learned as a child I guess.

I am not opposed to learning new concepts--so they lights were on yesterday and will be again today.

It's raining!!

We really need it. If we don't have enough rain to fill up the pond I don't know if the fish will live much longer.

Now the turtles are a different story.

More later, Linda

I often wondered about that SAD stuff

You know that SAD -- Something Something Disorder where you get depressed when it's winter.

Well, today it has been very cloudy---as Our Lynn says. It's been a very British day today. We got up to fog and it was foggy until just a few minutes ago. And my whole thought process changed today. I got really put out about the littlest things. Like Jerry coming in the door and it scaring me. Mind you I did have my mind on a lot more than him coming into the house. But, that should not have put me into a funk.

But it did.!!

I think there really is this disorder and I will keep more lights on from this day forward.

More later, Linda

Have you ever just....??

Have you ever just wanted to scream?  For no reason just go outside and scream? So my question is -- why didn't you??

Have you ever made a huge mess of a dessert and served it anyway?  The best cake I ever made broke apart right down the middle as I was taking it out of the pan. Moist and lots of flavor--I'm glad I served it.

Have you ever made a long list of things to tell your doctor and when you got to the office you didn't have the list?  That's OK.

Have you ever punished one child and found out that the other one did it---but it was 20 years later?
That happens all the time. Just apologize and give hugs and kisses.

Have you ever found a library book AFTER you had to pay for it because you couldn't find it? Yes, I did!!

Have you ever gotten strange phone calls?? One time -- in the sixties -- we got a call from a lady who said, " This is Opal and I called to tell you that Roy is in the hospital." Jerry's granddad was named Roy and his Grandma was Opal. Turned out it was a different Roy and Opal.

Strange things happen and then again they may not be that strange!!

It's the times like these that make out lives worthwhile.

More later, Linda

Just in on TV

I just saw a young man who plays basketball on TV. He's fantastic!!

He only has one hand. And he was born that way.

Did that tell me something == or what!!

Yes it did. I don't have anything like that I could possibly use as an excuse to NOT do something with my life. So why do I hesitate??

This man does NOT let ANYTHING keep him from being who HE wants to be.

I am learning -- at 72 -- that I don't have to let THINGS get in my way either.

I got a card from my friend Donna a month ago and this is what I learned.

I AM SAFE!!

Obviously this young man learned that at an early age. I didn't.

But I'm making up for it. I have gone out on so many limbs that I should be on the ground by now.

NOT.

NADA!

NO WAY!!!

I'M SAFE!!!!

More later, Linda

She's either shy or MAD!!

Sometimes I don't know about Sarah. She can be so loving. She likes to lick on our legs which makes Jerry squirm.!

And she likes to sleep on his lap during the morning Western movie. It doesn't matter to her who is in it as long as its a Western.

And then there are other times like this---

She hides right up next to the TV..

She's really hidden isn't she?? Kinda like a little kid that puts their head behind the curtain and leaves their body out. And then hollers "Come find me!!!!"

And then there is the full hide. Head turned to the floor. body turned to the other side.

So, is she mad at us or just being shy??

Who knows.

I just know that's it cute!!

More later, Linda

Sarah!!!

We have decided that Sarah is a bed HOG!! She not only gets right in the middle she SCOOTS!!

You know what I mean. She scoots from one side to the other. But the best thing is -- she SLEEPS on her BACK!!



Which mean she takes up HALF of the bed. And that's okay except when she decides to move over just a tichy bit.

Right here is THE example of what Jerry has to put up with EVERY night!!

Do you see what's going on. He has about 10 inches of bed space left. I told him to just pick up the covers and roll her over and his response was-----I can't do that she's too comfortable.!!

Is she spoiled???

YES!!!!

But she does have this cute little thing she does. EVERY morning. She lays on her back and rubs her eyes. You know what I mean coz you do it yourself. To get the sleep out of your eyes.  Don't say you don't. BECAUSE you do it too.

Hand on her eye---rubbing the sleep out.

She got up right after I took this picture. 

She's so cute!!

More later, Linda

So today it's raining!!

Yesterday we were supposed to have lots of rain. And last night Jerry and Keith fixed the deer feeder so that NO one can mutilate it.  We have had to replace all parts but the solar panel now 2 times. And its was getting expensive. Now Keith has fixed it so that it is not gonna be a simple job to take all those expensive parts and mutilate it again.

It is so heart warming knowing that those beautiful deer are getting fed every day. I know that it's only corn, but as cold as it has been in the winter months they need all the fat they can get. So we feed them -- more in the winter than at any other time.

Last count there were about 20 of all ages.

Yesterday Jerry took all the corn out of the feeder and put it into buckets so that they coyld work on it last night. This morning he had planned to take those same buckets back to the deer feeder so he could put the corn back in. But with the rain it would have gotten wet and then soured. And then it would have spoiled.

But with the rain that has not been something he could do. It is now a waiting game.  While he watches Kermit and Miss Piggy.



More later,