Mindless Wanderings

Does your mind go wandering around sometimes, stopping for just short moments on topics and then move on to something else?  Mine does, especially on snowy mornings when I am not in a rush to get moving for the day.  Today is one of those days.  Here it is near the end of March and still winter.  The positive is I have more time to get some inside things done.  I have plenty of paperwork for the campground to last me the next three days of snow and then some.  I need to paint between my upper and lower kitchen cabinets - you know over the stove where the grease spots are and over the sink where the water spots appear.  As a lover of books I have plenty of reading material.  I am forever buying books at the Friends of the Library ongoing book sale at the library.


I was talking to a friend yesterday and she said she shed some tears when she realized we had another round of winter weather.  I told her I was sure the last day of March would be gorgeous, after all if March comes in like a lion it is suppose to go out like a lamb and so far March has been mostly lion and very little lamb.  Even with that, I can not explain where time goes - it seems to just zoom by.  Some time is taken up with going to the Wellness Center for rehab with Bob.  He is doing better but the progress is very slow.  He still needs two liters of oxygen.  Then of course there is grocery shopping and cooking.  Speaking of cooking, there is a Facebook site called 100 days of real food.  I think we have just about made it 100 days with real food.  The interesting thing is now that we have eaten so much real food, I have lost my taste for for fast food.  Now if I could just shed some weight while eating real food.

Another thought on food, I hope you all enjoyed my very long food blog.  I am not going to write on food this time - just know I am still reading and learning.  It is so fascinating.  I truly believe if I were starting college today I would consider a career in nutrition,

Just got back from walking Sigmund.  What a beautiful day for a walk.  It is about 32 degrees, the wind is not blowing, the soft gentle icy/rain sprinkles on my raincoat hood made me almost sleepy.  Sort of like listening to rain on the skylights in our sun room or on a tin roof.  The moist air was cool on my skin and led to many mind wanderings of walking in the snow.  I even noticed that our footprints in the snow going up the mountain wandered to and fro - a stop for Sigmund to sniff this or that - maybe smelling last night's coyote, possum, raccoon, or feral cat.  Of course he has to leave a frequent marker of his presence on the trail.  hmmmm I may have to have a nap.

Longing and Belonging

While I am typing I am having a cup of Yogi green tea.  I save it for special occasions such as a reward when returning from a peaceful walk in the snow. Yogi tea is always fun to open because of the sayings on the tag attached to the tea bag.  Today's is "The art of longing and the art of belonging must be experienced in life."   Lots of food in this quote for thoughtful mind wandering.

This is about three days later from when I first started typing this blog.  Hope your week is going well.  Ours has been a little slow.  I have to admit I am looking forward to a little sunshine on the mountain.  We have about eight inches of snow and thanks to the wind some knee deep drifts.  Sigmund and I were exhausted when we got back from walking through the snow drifts on top of the mountain yesterday.  Sigmund says, "speak for yourself, Mom I was not tired."  ok ok so I was tired and Sigmund was not.

I do want to get his posted so I will let you go.  Have a wonderful cup of coffee this morning.  Cheers to all!!