Friday, January 26, 2007

Staying Warm

We finally get some cold air, n it's record-breaking extreme, well below freezing-temp air!
Some how, I'm not a bit surprized... I've officially learned to expect the most unusual weather unpredictable!
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Two pants, two pairs of socks, five shirts (one is lined), are keeping me comfy inside the house today. It's toasty in this chair, with Mischief cuddling up to me n the bottles filled with hot kettle water in the corners. Outdoors, polar fleece is the only way to go- (Thanks again for making me that scarf, MB)!
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I wonder if the ice has re-formed in the Artic Sea yet so the polar bears are happy feeding...

Photo by SnaggleTooth 2007












Stay warm

... with warm thoughts of:

... warring factions deciding on peace, not death
... realistic, down-to-earth leaders coming soon in the USA
... lifting hard-working folks up to a better paying job above poverty
... hitting a large prize in the lottery n quiting that tough job
... Working to make yourself rich instead of the share-holders of some huge corporation
... having the ability to help everyone deemed worthy (to me, this is the warmest thought)
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Sending positive, warm thoughts forward, presenting them to the universal energies, to assist them to happen, n leave the cold ineffectual...

Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Powdery Frigid Crystals

Photo by SnaggleTooth 2007

Overnight we got an inch of snow!
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All week it's been required long-underwear weather here, in the teens n 20's. The Cape finally got some of the ocean-storm precip that's been backing mostly into Maine from the Atlantic.
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At midnight I got to clean off the truck windows before going home early.
They let me out for a Jury-duty call. Back in March on the night before, the Jury Commish cancelled it on me, but this time was a "go."
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I had a tough time getting to sleep 'cause usually I'm still working at that hour. Waking up after only two hours of sleep was a major challenge, too.
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Never mind staying awake during hurry-up n wait-around in a small, crowded room all day, during my normal sleeping-hours. The chairs were not comfortable for me, n my eyes were too sore to keep reading, which was the popular main activity. I counted five people getting in naps while I was fighting with my sore parts to stop complaining.
The only small-talk engaged in during the nothingness concerned how the Patriots let the last football game Sunday slip from their control. Everyone is still depressed about being let down.
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My number was middle-range. After empaneling a couple of six-person juries, they stopped filling seats on the number directly ahead of mine! What luck! (Note: I wouldn't mind doing it in more rested condition, but I mind like this).
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TG I got to go home without having to go to work for the night. Rest-up time much needed, round two coming up very soon on the docket.
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On the way home I stopped again at my fav beach for a "Jette in the Snow" shot in the overcast daylight. There were tons of geese n gulls hanging out at the water's edge, too. I didn't disturb them from keeping their seats warm.
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The inch of snow is shrinking away already. Normally there's some large ice flows in the water by now. Maybe after another deep-freeze week of Artic air.

Low Tide n Temp

Photo by SnaggleTooth 2007












This is a pic of the sunset I watched at the same fav beach, on the same day of the previous post.

Friday, January 19, 2007

Healing

Photo by SnaggleTooth


The Place with the blue open flag was transplanted uptown into my small village from elsewhere a few years back. So many sharp victorian angles in such a crowded area make an interesting architectural location for shops. This was taken the week before Xmas when it was a toasty 60 degrees F. (Notice the decoration on the lamp-post).
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I've finally cleared up most of my sinus discomfort of the past week, just today.
I'd raise the flag, but I'm too pooped!
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I'd lost my voice for a few days, n couldn't even answer phone calls. At work it was very inconvenient trying to get loud people to listen to me n I relied on people close by relaying whispered messages.
I had to go outdoors on that one very frigid day here of zero windchill, 13 degrees F. deep-freeze. I wore layers n layers, but still, my lips got so chapped they're now still painfully crackling with scabs from being freeze-dried...
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I'm thankful some of my aloe vera plants survived this year, put into use to naturally sooth my raw lips n nose. I got the original plant from my mother's neighbor in the early '80s. Now only a few of the twenty+ I once had propagated from it are left. Over the years they've helped heal up many hurtful burns, sunburns, n skin abrasions. For me these plants are necessary household equiptment.
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All the things which got put on hold have not begun to clear-up, tho-. Mail to be read, bills to be paid, no chores completed, some left in a half-way state that normally would drive me nuts. The frig needs cleaning, cause I couldn't eat the food in so long. There's stuff to go into a box just sitting there next to the box...
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But am I getting back to all that? Of course not, I'd much rather write a few things, like my blog. It's been too long since I've felt this comfortable to do anything. It is a day off, after all, n I can finally breath or even bend-down (without gushing forth) if I need to.
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I made it outside during daylight n walked up the hill inside the woods for a few moments. I had to go deliver a payment across town n made an excuse to sidetrack to my fav beach for sunset. It was 30 degrees F. out, with a gusty windchill in the 20's, at low tide.
I love the deserted beach this way. Even one other person somehow feels intrusive to me. I tried to ignore the two other folks with the same idea. I walked over the huge piles of washed up red n green seaweeds with attached shells to the wet sand zone n kept company with the gulls awhile.
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A bit cold, but so beautiful a setting... It's my method for celebrating my life. A way I thank the Creator for allowing me to be here, n for healing me once again. These surroundings comfort my spirit, even in the harshest wind, in a way man-made places never have...

Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Blah-zzz

Photo by SnaggleTooth


On the news, everywhere U.S. but here, where it'd be normal for now, is having the freezing snow n ice-storms with power-outages.

On my way home at 3 am the temp read still above freezing, at 44 F. It's been pea-soup Fog here all night. The weather is expected to catch-up with the Cape finally by tomorrow. Just in time for my two early shifts when I open the factory for the production day.

I'm still working on catching my runny nose n using up tons of paper products. Of course, a little thing like being unable to breath never stopped me from attending the job- I hope this one throws in the paper towel soon, before my nose falls off...

Photo by SnaggleTooth
Here ya go, Neo- here's the main set from "The Blair Witch Trials."

Actually, I did shoot a movie in there once, of a bunch of high school students including my two girls.
"Scenes from Hamlett" was for Mr. White's English class. It's still in my home VHS pile, n makes me laugh like crazy everytime I watch it! It's so lame, n the sound stinks- but it's a riot when bikes ride down the path in the back-ground, the helicopter is all you can hear, n seeing a magic-marker beard (on BBM). But my fav part, is Ophelia's leap off the D-bridge... very artfully done if I do say so myself (ha-ha-ha-ha!). (No floating dummy corpse, either)!
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The scenery difference was of course, sunshine. The bare trees n piles of leaves have been changed to protect the innocent...
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N now back to our previous program, sniff, cough! Kleenex! Tea!

Thursday, January 11, 2007

Hace Frio!

Seems I've been waiting eons for a snowy photo op to go with the season...
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(Note: Be careful what you ask for) Day two of the local frigid air sans any fluff, in the 20's F. range, n I'm finally feelin cold! I mean the head, runny nose kind... Just in time for the day off- it figures, eh?
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There're several areas at work where I get blasted with cold after the baking heat, after getting soaked, which didn't help at all fending off this currently circulating viral attack. Right after my lunch-break last night it hit me like a ton of brick-blows over the head. One co-worker from my production line went home sick last week n hasn't returned, (Maybe they quit). I'm hoping it doesn't get that bad for me, I've kept up the nutrients, vitamens, soup, n tea.
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The tough part for me is the dizziness! It's tough getting the chores done in this condition. I did errand runs, n I was guilt-ridden with thoughts of infecting others, so I tried to stay away- (Another little kid, quick! Scoot five feet over)!
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So yes, I need to go visit work on my day off to pick-up my check! (Note: This is how you effectively ruin the free feeling of a day off). They were missing so many people, they asked me to work, but I had to decline. That figures, 'cause I could use the OT pay they haven't been allowing lately. I know my contaminated nose isin't up to it, n really all the muscles are very sore. Again, I feel guilty knowing they're in a lurch. It may be my problem soon, when I get this unwanted sinus-guest to ah-choo check-out.
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I've cancelled all my plans for the evening n hope this all blows over to allow some important chores to get accomplished tomorrow. My list is extensive!
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At least I can still blog when I'm dizzy...
N it's finally freezing cold outside (cold in my head too) .

Grey


Here's a pic of my deck view for the first week of the year... Very murky!

The flash lightened up Maple-beard for this shot. The exposure without the artificial lamp had zero definition.

Friday, January 05, 2007

Cool or Warm?

"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has in life, but the obstacles which he has overcome."
- Booker T. Washington
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Today Deval Patrick was sworn into the Governor's office. Good Luck to him, my expectations of the quality of his work are very high...His success may help make mine, also...
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A fellow blogger asked us this week- "Do you feel Lucky?" I remarked I did feel lucky to have made it through my life to this point. I've been through much trouble to be here right now. I don't feel lucky enough to win a high-stakes poker game, tho...
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Another wrote of his success this past year, n I commented about how I feel successful without having attained the monetary award yet. See, I still expect I'll get the cash at some point! When the economy will finally sustain for me more than my living expenses, I suspect to be in for a hugh, rolling snow-ball effect.
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Of course, some one has to make that first ball that'll roll down the mountainside to start it off on the right pathway- I have to get that ball just right, no matter how many tries it takes. Then the conditions down the way have to prevent it from busting up before it reaches the size it needs to be to become part of the total snowman.
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Once you have the large, stable base, you can build the middle, n once that is secure you can get the head on, then it's time to tweak all the peripheral details.
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We're experiencing one of the warmest winter seasons ever thus far here. It's way too warm for business success n snowballs. Poor Frosty never got built. It seems all my recent snowballs keep melting before they're formed or allowed to grow.
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But when I consider I'm well able to make a snowball, were there snow to make one, I do feel Lucky. I still have my mind, my hands, my talent, n the motovation. I'm confident I'll be successful measured with dollars as wished upon me by my dear friends. The part in question is:
When will conditions become friendly enough to allow me my snowball making?
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Then I'd prefer to become luckier n more successful, to feel that entire effect at once.
Where's the snow?

Thursday, January 04, 2007

Fall Deck View

Photo by SnaggleTooth



Now this scene is colored grey...