Sunday, February 15, 2009

Has anyone else noticed or am I just the one?

The above question was not rhetorical.
It was an absolute conclusion of an observance that something was and is happening.
That our days are getting longer once again; I know it happens every year at this time.
So I suppose most of us have begun to take it for granted.
Well, just to make my observance clear and to be put on the record of recorded time last night it was still light at six thirty here in Florida.
Now I do know up north it was probably around five thirty that it stayed light until.
Why is that?
Does it have to do with us southerners being closer to the Equator?
Perhaps it does.
Well, spring must be on its way and summer is not that far behind for you northerners and you should be glad to know; to us it just doesn’t have that same affect.
So it really doesn’t make that big a difference to us is what it means.

Ah seasons, you all love them where you are up north, but here it’s just not that big a deal.
I suppose we have been through this before, but let me explain once again: Florida has just two seasons, wet and dry that is it; winter and spring for you are our dry season, summer and fall are our wet season, got it?

In other words this is probably when you should come down here for a visit, March is even better though the weather is pretty near predictable then; 80’s during the day and sixties at night with the humidity still rather low, just perfect!
Now, if I were a tourist that’s when I would come on down.

I think I did a pretty good job for the Chamber of Commerce, and I will now continue on with other topics of interest to me.

Laziness is something some of us strive for, but I prefer to call it balance after one has had a fairly busy day yesterday.
I did do some laundry, feed the outside critters and make two and one half of the meals today; my hubby did the barbequing of the turkey, while on occasion I enjoy the PBS programming of Jacques Pepin’s Fast Food, and the History Detectives, which have been welcomed additions to my viewing pleasures over the last several weeks.
I did begin to read my book today that I took out just yesterday from the library, but guess what?
I really should have known better it was from one of my favorite authors, and yep, you got it I read it already.
I really should have written down all the books that I’ve read, but now there’s no way to do that it would take years to do it now.
At one point I was reading a book a day and so the number of my consumption would be staggering.

What I do find myself doing though is going to the authors’ online sites to try and get ahead of the curve by checking the release dates on new ones that are about to come out then I know for sure that I couldn’t possibly have read them.
I am pretty well caught up on all my faves though.

The other thing that my hubby did today was weed the gardens, trim the bushes and plants. These are a few things that I did enjoy for years but now have become too difficult for me to do.
Aggravating and annoying, as well as frustrating that I cannot do what I used to love.
I’m sure there comes a time in every ones’ life when this happens but it still is bewildering and numbing just the same, realizing that you aren’t who you were.

Some things are just wrong the fact that I can’t reach up to put certain things away, not because I am too short I’ve always been short, but in truth I am even shorter now by three freaking inches, but that’s not it it’s my darn shoulders won’t let me.
They are in sad need of repair.
Standing too long cause the numbies and moving too much causes pain in my hips, thus my new ride, but not for inside, only outside.
I must recline for relief inside.
Looking in the mirror makes me long for an exercise program like I used to have when all parts worked and I could be a gym rat for an hour and a half five to six days a week, but no more the parts are just too worn out and bone on bone squeaks and creaks.

But I have the love of a good man, and a son who says he loves me too, and other family and friends, loving pets, and a cute little gem of a home with all my creature comforts, we can still pay the bills with not too much effort; life is good and so why complain.
And yes, that was rhetorical.

Good night to all and to all as I try to spread these words each and every night some words to live by: be happy and always, always count your blessings and I will too.

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