The Dog Days of Winter
In the typical year here in southwestern PA we tend to have a three-week period of below normal temperatures. We're in it now. It always seems it will never end. We had a brief reprieve yesterday, and I did my best to enjoy it. It's nice to just be able to go outside and do a few chores without freezing. We are now supposed to go back into the deep freeze until February 9.
After going about some errands in the milder weather, I got to work on household chores. While Kimberly was out doing her errands, I logged onto www.rock-detente.com, a set of Quebec radio stations. Yesterday, when I clicked on the Ecoute en directe option, I got lazy and chose the Montreal station. Since bleuet. the Quebecois version of blueberry, which is myrtille in French, is my favorite word, I usually pick the station in Chicoutimi, up in the Lac St. Jean Saguenay region. I've visited it several times and like it up there, as long as it's not winter! They grow great blueberries up there and even refer to the locals as blueberries! Anyway, it was fun listening to them talk French in their Quebecois accent. I got to hear a few French songs, but they played mostly English songs yesterday. I tried to get in some dancing for exercise.
I ate fairly healthy yesterday. I got some millet and some whole wheat spaghetti. I also ate some raw vegetables, and I did a big supply of tofu. My birthday was on the 20th. I am an Aquarius by 5 hours, since that was the one year in every three that January 20th is Aquarius instead of Capricorn. I turned 54. Kimberly and I were very tired from the recent trip to the Hampton/Virginia Beach area over Martin Luther King Day to visit my mother in a nursing home in Poquoson. So we really were too tired to celebrate my birthday last weekend and decided to celebrate it a week late. Kimberly's birthday is next Saturday. She will be 52.
They celebrated my birthday at work on Tues. Jan 23. One of the young men I supervise had his the 23rd, so we had both together. My boss bought a huge cake. The young man is extremely huge. He is very tall, very big, wears a 6 XL shirt, etc. They took a picture of him with his arm around me, and you couldn't see much of me in the picture! Kimberly celebrated my birthday by getting me a card with a polar bear on it and giving me a beautiful mug. She really knows how to wrap presents too. I hated to open the package! She also baked a red velvet cake. It was delicious. She is becoming very talented at baking. Other than my whole grain corn bread, which I bake for my health, I try not to get much into baking, because I'm always trying to keep my weight down.
The Penguins have won two straight since the All Star break and they are in playoff contention! GO PENS!
After going about some errands in the milder weather, I got to work on household chores. While Kimberly was out doing her errands, I logged onto www.rock-detente.com, a set of Quebec radio stations. Yesterday, when I clicked on the Ecoute en directe option, I got lazy and chose the Montreal station. Since bleuet. the Quebecois version of blueberry, which is myrtille in French, is my favorite word, I usually pick the station in Chicoutimi, up in the Lac St. Jean Saguenay region. I've visited it several times and like it up there, as long as it's not winter! They grow great blueberries up there and even refer to the locals as blueberries! Anyway, it was fun listening to them talk French in their Quebecois accent. I got to hear a few French songs, but they played mostly English songs yesterday. I tried to get in some dancing for exercise.
I ate fairly healthy yesterday. I got some millet and some whole wheat spaghetti. I also ate some raw vegetables, and I did a big supply of tofu. My birthday was on the 20th. I am an Aquarius by 5 hours, since that was the one year in every three that January 20th is Aquarius instead of Capricorn. I turned 54. Kimberly and I were very tired from the recent trip to the Hampton/Virginia Beach area over Martin Luther King Day to visit my mother in a nursing home in Poquoson. So we really were too tired to celebrate my birthday last weekend and decided to celebrate it a week late. Kimberly's birthday is next Saturday. She will be 52.
They celebrated my birthday at work on Tues. Jan 23. One of the young men I supervise had his the 23rd, so we had both together. My boss bought a huge cake. The young man is extremely huge. He is very tall, very big, wears a 6 XL shirt, etc. They took a picture of him with his arm around me, and you couldn't see much of me in the picture! Kimberly celebrated my birthday by getting me a card with a polar bear on it and giving me a beautiful mug. She really knows how to wrap presents too. I hated to open the package! She also baked a red velvet cake. It was delicious. She is becoming very talented at baking. Other than my whole grain corn bread, which I bake for my health, I try not to get much into baking, because I'm always trying to keep my weight down.
The Penguins have won two straight since the All Star break and they are in playoff contention! GO PENS!
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