Ramblings

Snow on the Kokosing River.
A little back water view.



It's been awhile and I feel like a ramble. No, that's not a typo. I don't want to rumble, just ramble about some of the things I've been thinking lately.

Weather first. Mid Ohio is covered in a beautiful, long lasting, deep, crap load of snow with layers of sneaky drop you on your can ice hiding therein. This is the first winter in awhile where the snow keeps coming before we see a melt. But, finally, there is promise that this coming weekend will bring temperatures in the 40's and all our beautiful white snow will turn to ugly mud. The only part I'll enjoy is the loss of ice. I took my camera over to the Kokosing River and captured the deep white blanket of snow and those pictures will be enjoyed when I have to scrape mud off my shoes. Oh, the joys of Ohio winter weather.

Actually the weather led to the second reason I was inspired to write again. I enjoyed my walk in the cold, but not enough to attempt it every day. So this morning, after Bear left for work, I decided it was a good time to clean out the fridge. I take pride in my organizational skills. I always know what is in that cold food saver and how long it's been there. Not this time. Imagine my surprise when I discovered a small covered Pyrex dish that still contained candied sweet potatoes left over from Christmas!! But that didn't compare to my surprise in finding that they still looked good enough to eat!!! Imagine, no mold or separation or yuk. No way was I going to taste test anything that had been lost to me for that long, no matter how good it looked. Shall I give credit to Pyrex? Or are the preservatives in this day and age responsible? That actually scares me. We've heard the jokes about all that stuff being in our bodies. Was it George Burns who said that was why he was alive so long? Yeah, alive, but pickled. That's how I see it. I threw the sweet potatoes down the garbage disposal, but I could not get them out of my mind. That's why the fridge job isn't finished and I'm sitting here telling you about it.

I wonder why my days go by and afterwords I can never figure out what I accomplished. I know I was busy.......all day.....but what did I do? I had time to think about what to put in my blog, but today is the first time in too long that I'm doing it. Surprise............time really does fly when you're .......................................old. And the memory really is the first to go.............Now what was I doing?


P.S. Went to the kitchen and now I remember what I was doing. Bear asked for his favorite cherry, cheesecake, graham cracker crust dessert. I told him I didn't have what I needed to make it. I forgot I'm so organized, and I found everything I needed. So the cooked thickened cherries are cooling, the crust is cooling and the philly cheese is coming to room temp. so I can mix it up. That's what I was doing. I started on the fridge, but got detoured when I found I had all my ingredients to make Bear happy....then I got on the computer.....one thing leads to another and most of my day is gone and lots of things are started, but the blog is the only thing finished. Or will be when I hit "Publish Post." (The day is not a total loss. Bear will be happy, if I get myself back to the kitchen.)