Musings on a Small Life

We're still here and, I think, holding our own. Derry was enjoying the sunshine one afternoon last week. Work is scattered right now, at least for me. I'm juggling a few things, and one big university-wide project we're a part of is coming to an end soon. But it will be a last-minute scramble for me during the week of November 30th. Still, I'm off Mondays now through the end of the work year, to use up vacation days I can't carry over, and our Christmas break will be here in another 5 weeks or so. Yay! This morning's best cell phone snapshot down at the swamp, below. It was chilly! So cold that the water was partially frozen, but with no wind it still was lovely. I've spent the past couple of weekends busing and taxiing all over the city, stocking up on everything I could possibly need in terms of household goods for the next, oh, two or three years, plus picking up some needed items for the holidays. All that just in case we end up in another lock-down befo...

I'm not sure if I should write "happy" as it pertains to November 1st, as it's typically a dark and dreary month here. But whether the beginning of this month is a happy occasion for you or not, I hope we'll all embrace it, or at least endure it. It certainly looks like November here; it's a wild, blustery, rainy day, and a lot of the trees are bare now, or almost bare. The pics below were snapped yesterday morning, as I was walking through the swamp. It had been minus 7 overnight, so even at 9 - 10 AM there still was frost in shady spots. Halloween seemed quiet; I neither like it nor celebrate it and didn't notice many kids out and about. Some of the residents in this complex did have their units decorated and were doling out candy, presumably in a socially distanced manner. I'm just glad it's over for another year. Now my mind has turned toward the winter holiday season, with its decorations and lights. I put up two of my warm white light strings...