Spring?

 I have lived in Missouri all my life.  I know how Winter's go around here.  I have a feeling that we will have at least 2 more snows, and at least a week of really cold, before Spring arrives for real.  

Or, hopefully, I am wrong, and the way the weather is being manipulated these days, who really knows.

Maybe the Old Farmer's Almanac doesn't "predict" the weather.  Maybe it's just their way of sharing the script with us.  You know the rules, they have to show us what they are doing, but we have to be smart enough to figure it out. 

Last week was Spring, the weekend was winter (even snow), now we're back to the 70's, with the chance of snow tomorrow?  

On another note.  My neighbor has been diagnosed with Cancer.  In her lung.  I have been trying to help by feeding her cat, but he's missing her something fierce.  She says she might be coming home today, but that might be wishful thinking on her part.  

I had some thoughts this morning, about friends and losing them.  Through death or disagreements, so many of my friendships have ended, to the point that I really don't have a "real life" friend group.  I've only known my neighbor for a couple years, we really don't have any memories together, but she's right next door, and she'll be gone pretty soon.  It's a loss.

I can only hope that I had some positive impact or influence on the lives of those that are no longer in mine.  

People come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. 

The reason is to serve a specific purpose or help you through a particular time in your life.  The seasonal ones are temporary and may last for a shorter period, like a few months or years.  The Lifetime Friends are long-lasting.  They are there for the duration.  

As it turns out, my lifetime friends are also family, which I am very thankful for.  

I have had a few reason friends, and a few seasonal ones.  Those...for me those have usually ended on a sour note.  There just comes a point that sometimes both of us didn't want to be friends anymore, but we had been friends for "so long..."  You know...then feelings get hurt, things are said...and boom, that's it.

Oh dear!  My neighbor just called!  She's coming home today.  She sounds so much better, she told me she had so many infections in her, they finally got her cleaned out.  She still has cancer, but she's not deathly ill at the moment.  

 Awww, in the way that hospitals work, she has to stay in the hospital.  She said they are going to put something in her lungs, either today or tomorrow.  She's pissed.  I'm glad I didn't tell her cat yet.  

That's about it for now.  I'm gonna get to work on a burning.  

Play Nice!  xxoo

Monday Monday

A gray day here, blowy and chilly, but in the 40/50s.  I ran a few errands today, paid rent, popped into the grocery store, car wash for quarters, and back homey home.  

One of my neighbors stopped me to ask me about my neighbor, wondering if she's ok because she's been parking weird.  I know she's been sick for a bit, but she and I are both pretty solitary.  

I did send her a text, asking if she was ok over there.  I see her cat out every night, so I know she's at least up and letting him in and out.  She will probably take a while to respond.  

I am calling my first Big Burning finished.  I learned a lot, and am ready to start on Young Son's.

Just checked the weather.  Rain starting tonight, all day tomorrow, then turning to snow Wednesday morning, 1" at least accumulation.  And as I am writing this my gardening next door neighbor is mowing his lawn.  He can't wait to start planting, and the weather last week got us all in the gardening mood.  I knew we were in for some more Winter weather.  I have lived in Missouri my whole life.

My next Big Burning project.

Play Nice!  xxoo

Already March!

 This past week was pretty good.  We were lucky to get some Spring like temps for a few days, even up to 70 degrees on Friday!  Mother Nature does this to us every year, though.  She puts us in an Arctic headlock for a week or two, then trickles in some warmer weather, even flat out right in our faces try to make us believe that Spring has arrived.  

But I've lived in Missouri all my life, and I know her tricks.  

"I saw my first robin!"  Yep, that means within the next 3 weeks we are going to have such a snow storm!  Then it will be too cold to want to go outside for any length of time, but yeah, the days are getting longer, and they are just a little bit warmer every day...

Then here comes April, and maybe even another snow storm.  It's happened before.

But anyway...I learned how to enlarge my patterns for burning, which is very exciting for me!  With this new knowledge I have already started a large burning of my favorite, the jackalope.  

This was taken day 3.  Yesterday was day 4.  

I ran some errands on Friday.  Mary decided to sleep in, so I visited with Young Son, then I went to the lumber store and got a piece of plywood cut into 8 pieces.  Young Son has already commissioned a piece from me, so after that...I don't know what my next project will be.  But I can tell you it will be big!  

A great big milestone this week, I was finally approved for Medicaid!  After working on this for 6 months, I had a nice lady help me and we got it done!  That's quite a blessing and I am so thankful!

I'm going to make my kitchen table area an office.  A trade is planned for my table and bench seating going to a guy that will give me his mom's old desk.  It's fairly modern desk, , and not a big, bulky piece of furniture.  I'll move the computer from the living room to the new office area.  Lots of moving of furn and equipment, slowly but surely I am making this space mine.  

I don't have company.  I eat in the living room at the coffee table.  The only thing I use my table for is as a work space, and I have a folding table under my bed that will take the place of that.  

I ran a couple more errands, then I headed for home, and haven't needed to get out again since.  I like it that way.

Nothing planned for this week coming up, thank goodness!  I can be ready for anything in about 30 mins, though, if something comes up.

Play Nice!  xxoo