The Wind Of Change
What sight greeted me this morning as I swept the curtains aside?
Snow, sweet snow! Not a lot of it. But it’s better than nothing. I do love the snow.
I’m not fond of the cold, howling winds however. Especially on laundry day, which today happened to be. I don’t like doing laundry. Dragging the laundry back and forth. Going shopping while it washes. Just too much walking back and forth, especially in the cold, cold wind today. But the snow was lovely and it was good to get the laundry done, so I’ll try not to complain.
I’m just glad that I’m able to do it, the laundry. It seems silly now but before moving out it was one of the things that seemed scary. When you’re not used to taking care of anything yourself. I was used to the food magically appearing in the fridge and the clothes magically appearing in the drawers and the dishes magically cleaning themselves. Now if I don’t go shopping then there’s no food to eat and if I don’t do the laundry then there are no clean clothes and if I don’t do the dishes then the flies start buzzing. Just how it’s supposed to be.
Before I go, a big shoutout to my man Luis. He sent me a very cool card. With movable penguins. Sweet. Dance, penguins dance! Plus a little Futurama comic booklet. I love Futurama! I am so happy they’re back, with Bender’s Big Score. Thank you Luis!
It’s the christmas that wouldn’t stop christmassing.
January 4th, 2008 at 3:45
Dancing penguins, way too cool! That LuisLemmings is something else, isn’t he?
Yes, Iowa is caucasing tonight. We were busy working late, eating supper, and playing with the goatzies, so we didn’t get involved in that. We do plan on voting in November though.
We do get tired of all the election phone calls with the recorded messages. Surprisingly enough we have had most of the major candidates visit in our area. We have about 900 people in our closest town and nearby towns are anywhere from 10,000 to 25,000 people. So the candidates have really been getting out to us “little people” as well as the bigger cities like Des Moines, the capital of Iowa.
LuisLemmings is probably laughing himself silly: 900 people in a town, why there are that many people on my block! You, too Plumey! You live in a big city, don’t you?
Anyhow, I wouldn’t want to live in a really big city. Wouldn’t trade our snowy gravel roads (we do have a major 4 lane highway nearby), seeing pheasant, deer, bald eagles, and quail everyday, and probably knowing about half of those 900 people in town.
Everybody knows your business almost before you do, but neighbors are quick to lend a hand when you need help. And everyone waves at each other when you’re on the gravel roads, because they figure they either know you, know your relatives, or should know you if you’re driving on their stretch of the road!