I’ve been tagged.  Bother.  I resist these things as much as I can, but this time I actually have been able to think of a few things…

1. We’re between dogs right now.  We talk about adding one to the family, but know that once we do we’ll lose some of our freedom.  On the other hand, it was always a great way to escape to say “Well, we need to go home ( Read more... )

You know you make my heart ache so.

How I hate to see your dreams sundered

Your hopes laying in waste about you

The tears in your eyes

Born of sadness and frustration

Question rise haunting

How long must I wait?

How much should I give?

How much can you take

Yet ne’er repay?

The well is dry

My heart bereft

The phone lies silent

The bell doesn’t ring

The ( Read more... )

 
It appears that April finally ended a week ago Friday.  The cold rains have ended and we seem to me making a mad dash to cram all of the pleasantness that May is into the week that is left before June strikes.

We celebrated the end of April by taking a trip to the shore a couple of weekends ago, beating the summer crowds by a week.  We ended up ( Read more... )

drifting ( Read more... )

 
We finished swimming early this morning.  Since the new guard gets there when he should, we’re taking advantage of the early chance.  One of the best parts of swimming this time of year is that we can see the dawn breaking as we do.  At the end of the pool is a window from floor to ceiling that looks out to just where the sun should come up.  As ( Read more... )

Sometimes my mind just drifts this way ( Read more... )

 I love winter.  Matter of fact it's been snowing lightly here most of the afternoon.  I guess that means no eclipse for us.  Or else the cloudy evening we'll have will be a little darker ( Read more... )

 
We finally went back to swimming today.  We went AWOL a couple of weeks ago, apparently right after they started taking attendance with a daily check off grid.  There were a lot of white boxes between check marks.  It’s what happens though when you’ve been stuffed up and hacking up a lung for the last two weeks.  My greatest fear is that it ( Read more... )

Sad to say, a lot of us commented about how fast the year slipped away. I think we waste a lot of our time on the things that don't matter so much that we become numb to the way it's whizzing by. (You could translate those things that “don't matter so much” as work, but since it keeps a roof over my head and food on the table, I shan't. *wink*) ( Read more... )

 
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