Coffee Time! #22

Hey, hey everyone! Time to grab a coffee and join me in some relaxing time. Happy last week of March! And it sure feels like it too, cold, cloudy and a bit of light snow falling. There is not much new snow, but enough to make everything look white again. This light snow is supposed to continue all day and tonight as well, so we might get a couple of inches (5cm).

It is quite normal to get some snow at the end of March, though normally it is quite a lot of snow, but this year the main part of the storm is happening east of us and they will be getting up to 20 inches (50cm) of snow. I’m quite happy that we are missing that snow, even though we do need it.

Looking out across the frozen and snow covered lake. This is from a couple years ago.

With no runoff from melting snow this spring our lake and river levels will be very low this year unless we get a lot of rain this spring. Muffin is enjoying her morning nap. Poor Muffin. She is really slowing down. She loves to jump and had her main bed on top of a cabinet in the bedroom.

So she would jump from the bed across to the window sill, 4 and a half feet, then jump from there up to her bed, another 3 foot jump. And she did it so easily, even at Christmas. But no more. She cannot even jump onto the bed, or her favorite chair in the living room.

Another look but a bit further to the right.

So I put a stool in each place so she could make the jump. She can only jump about 1 foot (30cm) now. She has no health problems, just getting older. She still likes to play a bit, but she tires out quickly. I know how she feels in that regard. I’m slowing down too. It is never fun when we have to stop doing things that we enjoy.

But hey, there are two ways to handle that. One is to mope around, grumble and complain which makes ourselves and everyone around us miserable. Or, we can accept the changes, keep that beautiful smile on our face (just like little Jasper on Sunday) and concentrate on what we can still do, and maybe find new things that we can do.

Here is a picture of my apartment building. My apartment is off the picture to the left at the top.

We will be much happier and so will those around us. I prefer to choose being happy, it is a lot more fun! Well, time for more coffee, thank you for visiting today, have a great day and God bless!

Steve and Muffin.

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