I love a hot cup of tea on a cold winter day. And, baby…it is c-o-l-d! It is nice to just stay in and get stuff done around the house. Catching up on correspondence. Going through stacks of paperwork and organizing. Tossing old magazines. All things that need to be done and can be accomplished when you’re stuck inside.
I’m reading my friend’s final draft of her book so I can write advanced praise. You’re going to love it…I’ve cried ten times! I can’t wait to share it with you.
In the meantime, I was doing a little research yesterday after reading some of your comments on my post. I do that often. I came across an article in Psychology Today that I loved. As I read it, tears stung my eyes and I thought…whoever wrote this really gets it! When I got to the bottom, I saw that it was written by someone I know! Susan Heitler, PhD…a Clinical Psychologist in Denver. Susan had a little office located by the back door to the suite I worked in when Hubby #2 was in medical school. She often ate her lunch at the front desk in her office…the door flung open wide as if to beckon passers by to come in for a visit. I often stopped on my way to and from the cafeteria. Sitting for a few moments with Susan was like breathing in sunshine. I always left feeling really good about myself. I would have loved to bottle some of that up and take it with me where ever I went in the years since I last saw her. Here’s the article I read: https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/resolution-not-conflict/201202/psychological-diagnosis-dangerous-desirable-or-both
The last several days’ posts have been really heavy so I’m keeping today light on purpose. There is so much darkness in the world…we need a day of light once in a while. As I’m writing this, I’m listening to sounds of the woods. Water in a creek. Crickets. Tree frogs. Night birds. I miss those sounds. The woods are so quiet in the winter. The air seems dead as it is muted by the snow on the ground. It’s so cold my nose hairs freeze when I breathe in! Yet, I still have to sleep with the window cracked a bit. I have to have air. Mr. FixIt doesn’t like heavy blankets so I bought an electric blanket. It is the warmest thing I’ve ever had and not at all heavy. A good compromise.
I made Banana Nut muffins yesterday with blueberries in them. We went shopping at the department store that is closing and bought about $460 worth of clothes for $22…mostly for the great grandbaby! I’m researching how to make jewelry from broken china. I scheduled a camping trip for May. I caught a mouse in the attic. We watched a Reese Witherspoon movie. And I’m gathering the data I need to close out the paperwork from the car accident I was in last February. So far, it’s been a really good week! How about you? What are you doing to pass the time till spring? ❤️
“Fruit trees of all kinds will grow on both banks of the river. Their leaves will not wither, nor will their fruit fail. Every month they will bear fruit, because the water from the sanctuary flows to them. Their fruit will serve for food and their leaves for healing.””
Ezekiel 47:12 NIV
Well Ginny, I’m currently at a ski resort . Next week I’ll be home to check mail and do laundry. The following week I’ll be skiing again. Repeat that 3 more times and I hope spring won’t be far off! ?
I do miss skiing! ❤️
It’s the coldest it’s been here in Tampa, since 2010… 29 degrees! I checked where my daughter lives in Great Falls Montana..we are colder! Wish I could stay in, but a dentist appointment and nail appointment are on agenda, and the gym is first! Then it’s my least favorite job, that is always put off as long as possible- spreadsheet with hubby’s business expenses! Started yesterday and will finish today- it’s always a good feeling to have it done! One. More. Year. And then he retires at end of this year! Have a wonderful day Ginny! God bless you! ❤️
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You asked what was going on with us….Not much cleaning going on here. Monday was my longtime friend & neighbors funeral. She loved the snow whenever we seldom had it. Oddly, it started snowing as she died on Friday & then her grave was blanketed in snow Monday night. Before each of us retired (we worked together & retired at the same time) whenever it snowed we’d get out in it with our kids & play in it. During her death & funeral, my best friends husband had to go into ICU in critical condition with complications from the flu. I was able to get out yesterday & go see them at the hospital. So, this has been a sad week around here….
I’m so sorry for your loss, dear one. It makes the darkness of winter close in further. My heart is with you. ❤️
Sitting in a cubicle today, doing what I have done for 38 yrs…but you are my go to first. I start my day with your blog. I will have some coffee and what little something I have brought from home for my breakfast and then on to my paper shuffling here. Winter is a hard time for me. Hard to find cheer or happy. I hate the cold and its 8 degrees here this morning. Cannot imagine what the wind chill is. I know we have to have a season of rest for our dear earth, but it is a hard time for me. I want the sun and I want outdoors. Thank you for your words dear friend, I look forward to hearing them. Happy Thursday friends.
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At my desk working – LOVED the link article. Love and good cheer to you today Ginny – thanks for the blog. <3
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Worked up the gumption to tackle the MOUNTAIN(s) of junk mail that’s come since last summer. ( “Save the….!”)I have to shred because it all has my name and address on it in several places. I think that’s done on purpose. Have gotten about half done and made a mess of shreddies all over! But its a bit cathartic, I must admit. Planning a trip to do some out-of-my-patch birding up the coast aways. Writing letters, and making small valentine’s pkgs to send out. Encouraging a previous co-worker, who is like me, surrounded by too much clutter–wondering if I ought to contact her sister (who lives afar) to help her out. Like me, my friend is having physical trouble getting regular cleaning done. Counting my yard birds every day and submitting to Cornell Uni’s e-Bird citizen science web-base. Starting up my rounds of servicing customers of the seed company I rep for. After 6 years of drought, people are gardening again.
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We just joined ( for me rejoined after an over 20 year lapse) Weight Watchers. Our conversations are now sprinkled with points and changing our lifestyle. Change is good for us. We are weathering the cold and the 1/2 inch of snow dropped on middle Georgia. Ah, Winter❄️
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H Ginny! It’s so cold here too so I hate going out unless I have to. I did go to the Dr. For my regular appt. and all appears to be good, and then took the car for its first oil change. (I love my Subaru Outback) . But I also went through a huge pile of paperwork, quickly scanned a few magazines that I didn’t get to over the holidays and then tossed them. Thi morning I made choc chip cookies, and Poppy Seed Breads (more like a dessert than bread) and put together a Chemo bag for my friends first Chemo. She was just diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer in the lining of her stomach. Waiting for my vaca to Az. To see my Sister next week.
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