Run Away

Don't you feel like just Running Away sometimes ?
Not that life is bad or someone is hurting you or you are in trouble ... just to go somewhere else.

To look at strangers everywhere instead of the Neighbors.

To smell new scents,

To taste new flavors,

To hear different voices.

To not understand what everyone else is saying ..

To get lost .

To discover delights while finding your way.

To rest at night in a strange place, not your own bed.

To fall asleep listening to strange sounds, or no sounds.

To spend hours in a museum .

To wake up in the morning and lay there wondering .. what will I discover today ?

Don't you just wish you could run away ?

love

Right In The Middle Of It

A BAND OF MODERATE TO HEAVY SNOW TO IMPACT PORTIONS OF THE MID
HUDSON VALLEY....LITCHFIELD COUNTY AND THE SOUTHERN BERKSHIRES...

AS OF 750 EST...RADARS INDICATED A BAND OF SNOW...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING
SNOWFALL RATES OF 1-2 INCHES PER HOUR...JUST NORTH OF A
POUGHKEEPSIE...TORRINGTON LINE...MOVING EAST NORTHEAST. IF THIS
BAND HOLD TOGETHER WILL REACH INTO MOST OF COLUMBIA COUNTY AS
WELL AS BERKSHIRE COUNTY SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 90 THROUGH 900 AM.

VISIBILITY IN THIS BAND WILL DROP TO A QUARTER MILE OR LESS ADDING
TO THE TREACHEROUS TRAVEL.

Yes, children, this is where I live ... this is where I am located .. right there in the middle of it all.
My mom always said I liked to be the Center of Attention ... well ... here we are again, right in the middle of it.

I am not panicked like I was last year when yet another snow storm hit .. but it did give me pause when I looked outside this am .. I knew something was up when I woke to total silence .. not even Minette was making noise!
The bottom steps have disappeared on my front porch.
The birds are hiding.
Not even deer tracks through the garden as there are every other morning ..

I feel as though I woke up in another world.
One where there is only Minette and I .. huddling with a cup of coffee and wondering how long it will take to be dug out .. will I see another human before Spring ?
Will there be a Spring ?
Will there   be a Summer ??

Yes, I woke up with more questions than answers .

I am listening to music from Argentina. It only makes me more homesick.
But I will keep listening ... better than the dead silence that comes with a foot of snow.

Take care, be safe, be warm ..

The Snow Chronicles ( or there is nothing else to write about )

It is bright and sunny out. Beautiful.
Even with nothing but snow in the view for as far as you can see.  But the sun is sparkling on the snow, the sky is so blue, birds are everywhere .. especially around my dining room porch where someone made really dark toast this morning and crumbled it up and put it out there ..there are no more bird seeds left.

They don't seem to mind.. those birds   haven't seen the ground in weeks either.

I am so glad that I   put out seeds etc for the chipmunks and birds  in Summer and Fall ... they need to be as fat as possible going into winter up here.
And since I have nothing else to worry about .  ... I worry about these little creatures starving in these long dreadfully cold winters.

If I am living up here next winter, there is a 99% chance that Minette and  I will go South.
How far, I am not sure of but I am not staying here through another long frozen isolated winter.

I thought I would manage better , this second winter alone.
In many ways I have ... Minette helps a huge amount ... but still .. she can't talk and she doesn't hold up her end of the cooking chores.

I am sick of my own cooking. I have no more ideas ..
I have no appetite so I end up eating miniature cinnamon rolls with gallons of hot tea.
Last night , I had broccoli for dinner. .. with cheese sauce.
And a cinnamon roll for dessert.

My young friend who lived up here and then moved to Florida with her husband, the young Marine.. is in labor right now.
A tiny little boy is on his way into the world.
I wish I were there .. I wish they were here .. you know what I mean .. what can cheer you up faster than a baby ? Especially when it belongs to someone else  ! you still get to sleep at night .. but you can enjoy that sweet little tiny being..

So .. the Weather Forecast is for more snow .. many inches.

See you in the Summer .. I will be the wild-eyed blonde, holding an equally wild eyed kitten, with cinnamon roll crumbs all over us.

Woodstock Farm and Sanctuary

The Woodstock Sanctuary

Sometimes it is not so bad, living out in the Country.