Really September

So hard to believe that the year is nearly over.  Seems like just yesterday spring was beginning and the trees were just getting their leaves and the flowers were blooming.  Oh well, as they say, "time flies when you’re having fun."  The summer has been very up and down but I hate to see it end.  Our weather went from unbearably hot to dang near cold.  I have been busy with lots of overtime and training some new dispatchers to take the spots of those who were done away with last year.

That being said I should try to put some of my summer experiences in writing for my later memory lapses.  Seems my memory gets worse as I get older.  But that’s another story all in itself.  The last entry I wrote was an emotional train wreck.  I had been having some serious episodes of deep depression.  I was very blessed to be turned over to a new psychologist for workers comp and I thing maybe, I can get back to the healing of my mind.  I know that sometimes just doesn’t seem possible.I have found myself to miss being here writing what my day to day experiences.  Seems when I used to write everyday, my thought process was better.  So maybe I need to get back in the saddle.  I have gotten away from doing most things that I used to really enjoy.

Two things of excitement upcoming are my niece Tiffiny will be getting married next weekend and I am struggling with watching her get married and not having my dad here to witness this event.  She was the first grandchild and she became very special to dad.  I am very happy for her and her husband to be.  I suspect that she wants another child, and decided that it was time to do it the old fashioned way.  Yeah, I know, she already has one child by this young man, but they have come a long way in nearly 5 years.  Corben, her son just turned 4, and she and Justin have been engaged for nearly 5 years.  But I can’t wait to see her walk down the aisle.  She is such an amazing young lady.  But I see a lot of tears and tissues next Friday night.

And tonight I took a big step into the 21st century and ordered a new digital 35 mm camera.  I have always enjoyed taking pictures, and still really enjoy my film camera.  But, finding places to develope film are getting harder as the years go on.  And I have some things that I want to expand my photography skills, so I took the plunge.  I bought a Canon which should still interchange lenses with my old 35mm.  And I will keep the old film camera handy also.  The local vocational school has some photography classes that I may go take.  I have no formal training, but many of my pictures of the past have been really good.  So we’ll see in a few days when it comes and I begin to play with my new toy.

When I worte my last entry, I was just days away from vacation.  Let me tell you, sitting in a chair in the ocean can do more for the soul than all the drugs and doctors could ever do.  I came home totally destressed and ready to make some changes.  Well coming back to work sure shot that in the foot real fast.  But I am trying to take each day as it is and make the best of it.   Some aren’t as good as others.

Once again, for the second year in a row, not one of my tomatoes has ripened as of yet.  My grape plants were just getting good when I left for Florida and I don’t thing Julie watered them while I was gone.  So now there are starting to come back again.  But my full size plants are yet to give me anything but green tomatoes.  I suspect that like last year, just before the first frost, I will pick them all and put them in the cellar to ripen during the colder months.  I had tomatoes last year in November and December and they ripened in the basement.  I even shared some with the mice that inhabited my basement. 

That’s about all that I going to write at this time.  I am going to try and force myself to come back and write as I have much more to tell.  I need to try and find the peace that I had when I wrote more often.  I can go back to my old writings and relive those days gone by and still remember those days like they were yesterday.  So I hope everyone has a great Saturday.  i should be at home by now, but my relief called in sick at 3:30 and I didn’t want to wake anybody up to early, so I’ll stay and get some overtime and then wake somebody up to come to work.  My puppies are wondering where mom is right now, but will just sleep until I get there.