a saturday

it is supposed to snow today. It is cold. But my grass needs cutting! and the part I need has not arrived via the mail, so I will probably get the weed wacker out…if it doesn’t snow. That , my dears, is life in Colorado.

Its 5am and I am waiting for the dark to leave so I can see what the weather will be like. I have two rooms upstairs that I need to clean, laundry, dishes, …a list of household chores to do. I am just wanting to do yard work after a winter of waiting.

I woke up in middle of night (briefly) and counted my blessing for having 4 walls, and "things" ; while so many in the south lost everything, many lost their lives too. I connected for a moment with understanding what it might be like to NOT have even a change of clothes to call your own, let alone a place to sleep. all the precious things, your credit cards(if they were not on your body when you ran for cover), your pictures, your computer, your keepsakes… all scattered across miles of other peoples processions and memories. whole towns wiped out. It looked in the news photos much like it did in Japan a short time ago. houses wiped out, nothing but broken lumber, scattered brick, banged up over turned cars, dead trees stripped of their leaves. this last hits me, as my recent visit to the south reminded me of the forest of tall trees that make up the south. yet in the photos you don’t see any, except a few twig like things in the background. and nothing is said of the animals that have died or gone missing. horses, cats, dogs, cows, deer…. raccoons…. the south’s forest is well populated with critters. the human toll is huge, but don’t forget the loss to the animals.

My middle daughter’s old min pin (dog) died about 4 weeks ago. he was 15? about that. lump in his throat and on his kidneys. the vet said there was nothing to be done. we realized at that day that all our dogs are ancient, all over 12, and two of the cats also qualify for ancient.

my mind jumps around a bit this am…we do have tornado’s here in Colorado now and then. and like those in Georgia, all we could do if one hit , would be to hunker down and pray we survived.

the power of Nature, the huge crashing waves in a storm that I watched last Saturday, and the photos of the swirling cloud of a tornado… Nature in its fullest. we forget, we don’t control the earth.

well, I’ve rambles enough for a bit, and it is lightening up outside, no snow on the ground and skies are mildly cloudy. heater is coming on. guess its housework for this am.

take care you all