#1 It’s dark by five now. I can still see the sky through the trees a bit, but the birds have tucked in after eating half of the full feeder. Maybe that squirrel helped which makes me feel kinda helplessly rage-y, somehow. But yes, it’s dark early again, like every winter does in November here.
Elv asked me if I wanted to walk after supper. Actually he said, “Do you want to walk in the dark?” I knew he meant to say “take a walk in the dark”. And I didn’t want to, because I was “on my feet all day”. Which is another excuse I have for not wanting to walk down the back streets of Northwoods Beach after dark even if it is only six-thirty PM.
Lance sold us his exercise machine. Because it’s too big to simply pick up and carry indoors to a designated spot, which I believe said spot is going to have to be most of one of our rooms in this house, it is broken down into many pieces and parts. Never mind where it’s being stored, but in order to use this machine, hauling and assembly are required. And space. If all of these problems can be comfortably overcome, we shall be able to get our exercise without having to walk in the dark or do stairs. I don’t do stairs unless it’s on the way to somewhere and back about something in the ordinary outworking of home keeping or life. Mindlessly tramping up and down and up the stairs isn’t my thing. Elv carries it off with aplomb. Good for him. He usually listens to audio or watches a movie the while.
Okay that was sort of two things.
#2 Today, I forgot what I was supposed to be doing and went out of the way to pick up the check for depositing. I realized this with chagrin. All that wasted time and gas. Oh well! So I decided to take it easy, take the woods road past the lake and stay calm. Who cares! I was rewarded with the sight of a pair of swans on Windigo Lake. They sidled away from my car, eyeing me anxiously. And I remembered the time we were woken in the night by another pair a few years ago with their trumpeting. Since when do we have swans in Sawyer county!
#3. We’ve had our first snow. And there’s ice on the shallow ponds. It’s deer hunting season in Wisconsin and Minnesota. There’s a puzzle being worked on the coffee table. The bird feeders are busy with chickadees and nuthatches. I put my first little plans about Thanksgiving Day out there on family Whatsapp. There’s yarn on my crochet hook. Things are shaping up for winter, for sure.
#4 When is it okay to decorate for Christmas? I added white trees and a red bead garland to the mantel this week. And I hung a wall hanging of a snowy winter lane through the trees.
I’m looking for new, nice Christmas-y carols and chorals and music for this year. Please build me a playlist in the comments.
#5. Somehow, the government is planning to open up today. It was really getting clunky for a lot of people all the way from layovers to food programs. This Thanksgiving, we will all be extra thankful, right?
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