Figuratively speaking, I will be all over the map with this blog. This post will be a hodgepodge of anything and everything, which is pretty much how my brain is functioning these days, a jumble of this and that.
I don't know if it is the time change, the lingering winter, the sleeplessness or post Costa Rican blues, but my focus is just NOT the same. I think I have spring fever in reverse. THIS Stella is having a hard time getting HER groove back. So follow me as I amble along in this blog, OR.... you know what to do!
New in my life? These two things I had NEVER seen together... a leaf rake being used to rake SNOW off a front lawn. I have used a shovel, but NEVER a rake. I saw a clever lady doing just that on one of my daily walks with Vimy this week.
Something that should NOT be seen together? Brand new, bright green blades of grass pushing up next to a HUGE snowbank of ice and dirty snow.
NOR should people be wearing tuques and gloves in MAY! On yard duty at 8:00 am Wednesday, I had gloves on, because it was 4 degrees Celsius, and therefore, COLD! At 11.30 am I was in the school yard again, and it was now 18 degrees Celsius. Does that make sense? The temperature went up to 21 degrees Celsius that day. The next morning? 3 degrees Celsius. WTH?
A NOT so cute quote from a student in Grade Three this past week, when I asked students to tidy up the classroom at the end of the day: "It's not YOUR class." CHEEKY little thing!
One of four eggs hard boiled this morning, came out a solid caramel colour when peeled. I have NEVER seen an egg this colour. Weird! I gave it to Vimy to eat. I will eat dead lobster off the back of a truck, but an egg the wrong colour? Nah!
To cheer me up on a cold, cloudy May day, I went tramping in ditches with Vimy. In those ditches, I picked up all recyclables, such as empty Micky bottles of vodka, that are littering our beautiful neighbourhood. I picked up a dozen of these little red bottles. Did I mind that people might see this little, old, white haired lady, up to her knees in ice, snow and water,in a ditch, picking up these bottles? I didn't give a TINKER'S TOOT! This garbage was hidden under the snow, but is now very visible everywhere, and very ugly. Which makes me UGLY!! :)
So I DID end up standing in a ditch full of water, but at least I was not standing in four feet of water in my basement, like some poor New Brunswickers are right now, with the horrific flooding in the southern part of our province. For ONCE, I am TRULY, and ETERNALLY grateful, that I live in the north!
Lovely Lady, you are as sharp as ever. We are all tired of this winter. You are not the only one in that frame of mind. Yes, you may be a little shocked with the snow you have, but after your awesome vacation you had for a month, who would not be shocked. As far as the egg goes, I have never seen a brown one like that and would not have eaten it either.
ReplyDeleteWith regards to the garbage, people are just downright ignorant. They are to dam lazy to put things in the garbage themselves. If I saw anyone dumping garbage like that, I would pick it up, follow them and throw it in their yard. I always look for named letters with garbage.
In response to the little one in class, that is just kids. But they can piss you off. LOL
You are such a strong and Lovely Lady, you can handle these things. Always vent, it is good for you.