The Holidays are over! Thanksgiving where we stuffed ourselves, then Christmas when we shared our time with Family and Friends exchanging memories in many ways, and then awaiting the ball to drop to bring in a new year! Now that they are over things will return to normal!
The few kids that were in my life have returned now back to school and all the teachers "dirty looks"! Those who are lucky to have a week or two off from their jobs are going back, hopefully refreshed and ready to change the world for the better! Others are just happy that all the madness is over!
This winter so far has been very mild and not much snow, though we have had quite a bit of rain. Temperatures are much milder than usual too.I keep thinking, soon the weather is going to change into a wild and cold season! I have to admit though, I do like the snow! Not up to the rooftops, or icy on the roads, but the falling of giant white balls of fluff from the skies, slow and gently landing on the grass, branches and the seed heads of my perennials just makes my heart and soul skip a beat! If it falls like that at night, I like to don my boots and scarf and gloves and walk viewing all the little diamonds laying around for the taking in every yard!
It seems when I was a child we would have snow..Inches of it... that fell in December and never left until March! We would make forts, and 6 foot snowmen, complete with an old lid from a pot on it's head! With REAL coal eyes! You see, we used coal as a source of heat then, so it was easy to find pieces for the smiling, friendly faces in our yard!
My father was an artist of sorts..excelling in snow sculpture! He would pile the snow up and we would help pack it by jumping on it! The he would set to carving with a serving spoon, a knife from the silverware drawer, and maybe his pocketknife! Wow..we never thought of
those utensils as weapons, but creative instruments when not used for eating or whittleing!
When all was done there would stand a dog, with four free standing legs complete with ears pointing up and a tail! I'm sure somewhere in some family pictures somewhere in the family there are pictures of some of these creations! What is even more fantastic..No bratty kid in the neighborhood would come along and kick the dog and knock it down! Nor steal the hat from the snowman! You could trust people to be respectful then. Somehow, I miss those
days!
Yes, the holidays are over and things are back to normal! Now, for this time.... I'm Out!
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