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A lot of random thoughts are going on in my head today.
Thursday was 95°. Medicine Lodge got up to 100°. I remember years when we still got 10-12" snows in May... And I guess we still might.
The wind is blowing so much today it blew the cable out. Not a big deal, not much TV watching on weekends around here anyway, other than my mother. There is a cool front coming in on this wind today.
The lilacs are in full bloom. I can't remember the last time they were in bloom for Easter. Not since I was a kid, I don’t think. I have a big armful of them that Rick brought me here in a huge vase on the computer desk ... You can smell them as soon as you walk into the room.
The sand hill plum bushes in the fields are blooming, too. I hope there isn't another freeze... We haven't had plums for several years. I miss making the sand hill plum jelly; it's my absolute favorite. I love driving out into the sand hills and picking plums, fighting off bugs, the thorns on the bushes and occasionally running into snakes... I remember the time Rick accidentally stepped on a snake he didn't see... You should have seen how fast he tore out of those bushes!
The Passion of the Christ is on Showtime tonight. I don’t know whether we will watch it or not. I haven’t seen it. I went once with my best friend to the Passion play at Eureka Springs Arkansas, and we both ended up getting very emotional. I am sure the movie will be even more emotional, as real as they say it is…
Am I rambling? I suppose I am. It has been a long, boring day. I have just been piddling around the house… Organizing a drawer here, or a box of stuff there… Put the crocheted afghans out on the clothes line to air out. They are very huge and too big for the washer or dryer. Guess I can go start dinner now, and then there will be dishes and helping Isaiah get to bed…
When you have no friends except the people you live with, and your 7 year old is in no extracurricular activities, and you don’t work, it’s like time stands still for you… The world around is rushing around, and doing things, and stretching themselves too thin, and here I am, looking for things to do.
Thursday was 95°. Medicine Lodge got up to 100°. I remember years when we still got 10-12" snows in May... And I guess we still might.
The wind is blowing so much today it blew the cable out. Not a big deal, not much TV watching on weekends around here anyway, other than my mother. There is a cool front coming in on this wind today.
The lilacs are in full bloom. I can't remember the last time they were in bloom for Easter. Not since I was a kid, I don’t think. I have a big armful of them that Rick brought me here in a huge vase on the computer desk ... You can smell them as soon as you walk into the room.
The sand hill plum bushes in the fields are blooming, too. I hope there isn't another freeze... We haven't had plums for several years. I miss making the sand hill plum jelly; it's my absolute favorite. I love driving out into the sand hills and picking plums, fighting off bugs, the thorns on the bushes and occasionally running into snakes... I remember the time Rick accidentally stepped on a snake he didn't see... You should have seen how fast he tore out of those bushes!
The Passion of the Christ is on Showtime tonight. I don’t know whether we will watch it or not. I haven’t seen it. I went once with my best friend to the Passion play at Eureka Springs Arkansas, and we both ended up getting very emotional. I am sure the movie will be even more emotional, as real as they say it is…
Am I rambling? I suppose I am. It has been a long, boring day. I have just been piddling around the house… Organizing a drawer here, or a box of stuff there… Put the crocheted afghans out on the clothes line to air out. They are very huge and too big for the washer or dryer. Guess I can go start dinner now, and then there will be dishes and helping Isaiah get to bed…
When you have no friends except the people you live with, and your 7 year old is in no extracurricular activities, and you don’t work, it’s like time stands still for you… The world around is rushing around, and doing things, and stretching themselves too thin, and here I am, looking for things to do.
posted by Amethyst Rising at 3:47 PM
5 Comments:
"I miss making the sand hill plum jelly; it's my absolute favorite. I love driving out into the sand hills and picking plums, fighting off bugs, the thorns on the bushes..."
Oh, you're bringing back some memories. Sand hill plum jam is the best tasting stuff in the whole world. Too bad Welch's hasn't discovered it yet! I used to hate the damn bees that flitted around us when we were pickin' those plums off the bushes on the side of the county roads. But damn, it sure was good on toast!
Life does tend to stand still when it's not as active as you'd like. I wonder how people got along back in the Dust Bowl days, or before then, or even before the internet?
But moving to a city's not the answer. Cities are Earth's nightmares. Perhaps join a book club? Or get a few magazine subscriptions? Might pass some of the time.
My daughter and her boyfriend have an xbox and I have been playing Mario Party...LOL I should be getting some more paperwork for the online classes soon... The semester starts at the beginning of June...
If the plums do well this summer, just send me your address Jas and I will send you some sandhill plum jelly...:-)
[gasp!]
Really? (squeaky, excited voice)
You're on! I'll send it to you shortly. God love you woman. Godddd love you.
What classes are you planning on taking? I think that's really impressive, taking college courses online. Keep me filled in, huh?
The degree I want to get is a bachelors degree in administration and managment... They listed my major as 'marketing'... I haven't heard from them on picking out the actual classes, hopefully soon...
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