Norma's Wanderings around a small section of Montana |
Merit badge challenge Would you rather: a) Go back to being 10 years old but all the knowledge you have now, or b) Skip forward 10 years but have $50 million in the bank? SO, to answer Elle's question on the newsfeed, I think I'd like to go back 10 years. Answer A. With all the knowledge I have now but live back then, well now life would have been so much different. Of course it would. But would I upset the time/space continuum if that would be possible? I don't want to gamble on that money being there in the same form in 10 years. And besides, what is money anyways. It can't buy much these days. |
It's Easter Sunday. Those of us who are Christians celebrate the resurrection of Christ. It's a big deal, the resurrection. What to me is NOT a big deal is all the chicks and bunnies, the colored eggs, the Easter baskets, an Easter egg hunt, the chocolate treats, the ham dinners. Easter any more has taken on the secular trappings of Christmas. More about the hoopla and less and less about the actual reason for the season. I don't do a big ham dinner, we are two people. I don't eat pork. We don't do colored eggs or hide them. And anymore that is just filling plastic eggs with candy, which kids don't need in abundance. Real eggs are food and food is getting expensive. It's not a game. Chicks and bunnies, the same thing. People here buy baby chicks, they come by plane or in the mail. They are babied along in an incubator to become chickens to produce eggs and eventually meat. Or some raise them from eggs. Same thing with rabbits, raise them for meat. Right now we still have 3 inches of snow on the ground. Tradition says to plant potatoes on Good Friday. I still have my seed potatoes waiting. Once the snow melts, I'll have to wait for the ground to thaw. I figure I'll be about 2 weeks behind on that chore. Guess I'm a bit grumpy. So I'll stop with the lecture. The sun is out. Christ is risen. It'll be a nice day. |
Looks like it's been a while since I posted on this blog. I was busy in the Banana Blog for a time. Let's see, we're waiting for a winter storm. Yeah, right. It probably won't do much. They always threaten storms lately but we never get much of anything. This area sure could use a good rain or snowstorm. The drought here is severe and going on three years. I am still involved in planning a Renaissance Festival for September. Some of the planners have dropped off the radar screen, but not before accusing me of being the most hateful person on the face of the earth. Hmm. First I was the death of civilization as we know it. That was the accusation from a person on that Amtrak trip to California. Now I am considered the most hateful person on the face of the earth. Goodness gracious. Those are some pretty ugly accusations. Let me just say, I am not perfect. No one is. I apologized. I said I was sorry for whatever I did that irked these latest accusers so. But, whatever it was, they still hold their anger. So that to me is a bigger storm than this blizzard that may or may not form. A word to the wise - don't hold your anger. Be humble. Apologize. No one is perfect. |