I woke in the early hours of this morning having a light bulb moment. My sister and I have lived together for so long I have come to count on her as my “rudder”. Since she has been in the hospital for the past week plus, there are periods I feel lost for focus and direction. I realize I am going to have to learn to depend more on my own decisions again as I did before she came to live with me. Tethered to that decision was realizing the fact that over the years I have collected too much “stuff” and am hanging onto some of them for dear life when they no longer serve the purpose they once did. A resolution or growth spurt or just plain intellect/common sense followed that light bulb moment. I am going to have to throw out or give away boxes of things. I will start today. I hope I can keep up my resolve and have the energy for as long as it takes to get it done. I think the name for it is downsizing.
January, a new month, a new year with more photo a day challenges. On the 3rd the challenge, theme, was black and white. I didn’t use the "black and white" feature to shoot the photo. I used the Photoshop filters to change a color photo to black and white. I used this particular shot due to the shapes and patterns along with the black and white.I just this minute found out that Sue is being transferred from the hospital to a rehabilitation center, one more step in the healing process.
I took time out of normal plans for today to have my hair cut. That was really a necessary, very necessary, thing for me to do. My hair is so thick that it looks like a bush on my head when it gets to long. I feel much lighter.
Now that I am home and had a little lunch, I am going to make the meat balls for the dogs. Sugar will be directly under my feet until they are in the oven. She waits for me to drop something.
The word is decent. A decent boldness ever meets with friends, Homer. A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization, Samuel Johnson. Whom do I call educated? First, those who manage well the circumstances they encounter day by day. Next, those who are decent and honorable in their intercourse with all men, bearing easily and good naturedly what is offensive in others and being as agreeable and reasonable to their associates as is humanly possible to be... those who hold their pleasures always under control and are not ultimately overcome by their misfortunes... those who are not spoiled by their successes, who do not desert their true selves but hold their ground steadfastly as wise and sober - minded men, Socrates. False modesty is the most decent of all lies, Nicolas Chamfort. It's an odd job, making decent people laugh, Moliere. In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years, Abraham Lincoln.
Today’s photo theme is “this year I’ll...”. Since I still have lots of boxes to unload from the storage this was a perfect shot to fit that theme. I will unpack and throw away unneeded things and try to "downsize."
I have never snow skied and I don’t like cold. I have water skied and found it freeing as I am sure those who snow ski find that sport. This article today is mostly about snow-making that helps the ski resorts stay open. December weather in Ohio hasn’t offered many ski possibilities but with the help of the ski machines the resorts have been able to stay open. Snow Trails opened with the earliest weekend since the 1960's. It opened for all week business on December 16. They began “making” snow on November 7 and let it become long piles called “wales”. Later the workers spread out the snow with equipment called “snowcats.” According to the article, Snow Trails have an expensive water-cooling system that chills 54 degree well water that is then shot under pressure from 300 horsepower pumps. At Mad River the snow machines can cover the slopes in 72 hours. Vail Resorts bought Mad River and sixteen other ski centers. This allows skier who have a Vail Epic Pass to ski at Mad River Mountain.
Pizza night!!
Joy
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