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Daily Pics 2020…#24.
Good morning on this another mild January day! Happy Cabin Fever Day!! It is really hard to believe all this mild weather we are enjoying right now. And in January yet, that makes it even more amazing. But I’m certainly not going to complain. When I think of January last year, wow, what a difference! It was cold. Very cold, last year. Most of the winter in fact. Plus a lot more snow than this year. I know we still could get more snow, but once January is done there isn’t much chance of getting too much of that brutal cold. It can still happen, but it shouldn’t last very long at least. It has actually been a long time since we have had such a mild winter, so it’s nice to have one again.
But now, it’s time for some summer beauty with some more wildflowers…
Here we have the pale yellow “clintonia”. These flowers are very waxy, almost plastic looking. But they are very pretty. After, they produce fairly large blue berries that are not good to eat. They can make a person quite sick.
And here we have a very dark orange, almost red, “wood lily”. This beautiful large wildflower, once picked, will never bloom again. They are found in orange (most common), dark orange, red, and yellow (least common). Mainly found in fields or open clearings.
Well, there we have our wildflowers for today, I hope you have enjoyed them. Happy Friday to everyone and God bless!
Steve and Muffin.
© 2020 Steve McLeod.
Cabin Fever Time.
Here it is, another day, another winter day, another day to stay indoors and drink coffee. Lots of coffee. Sometimes, however, it is necessary to go out, otherwise Muffin and I would get hungry. And that is not good. Especially when Muffin gets hungry. That is really not good. Especially for me. And my feet. Speaking of feet. It has been suggested to me that I should go barefoot, and then I would not need to worry about getting wet socks and changing those socks so often. Right. Me go barefoot in the winter. I don’t even go barefoot in the summer. Bad thing to do. For me at least. Just not going to happen. The floor in here is way too cold anyway. My feet like to be warm. And safe.
I’m looking for something at the store, can’t find it, so I ask. And the person, who supposedly works at the store, just stares. Like I just dropped in from some other planet and I’m asking for some strange object. And the person I asked is trying hard to think of something to say but doesn’t really know what to say. Therefore the person finally just says something like, ‘I don’t know, not my department’. Yet that person has been working in that department for the past 6 months. Or they might say, ‘we don’t sell that anymore’, when in reality they never did. Or they might say to try a different store, which translated means, ‘go away, I don’t want to talk to you anymore’. Sigh.
I phone some restaurants and ask if they have any gluten free meals and they say, “what is that?”, which answers my question. Or they ask if that is some kind of foreign food, which on one hand it really is, and again, it does sort of answer my question. But there are some restaurants that offer such meals now. We have one. Well, okay, there are 2, though one has 2 choices and one said yes, we have several different salads that are gluten free. Salad. I am asking for a meal and they suggest salad. That, to me, is not a meal. Sigh.
It has been a long winter. And it’s still only half way. It’s definitely CABIN FEVER TIME!!!!! And I have it. I’m ready to climb the walls, bang my head on the ceiling, fall down (what do you expect?), roll on the floor, and, and…AAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It’s okay. I’m calm. I’m fine. Soon it will be International Cabin Fever Day. That’s the last Friday of January, which is tomorrow. It’s a time to be crazy. Have fun, dress mismatched, different colored socks, eat cake. Do something different. I think I might go on vacation soon. No, I can’t actually go anywhere. Muffin and I will just stay home. Lock the door. Don’t answer the phone. Just stay home and look at pictures of Hawaii. And Muffin adds…eat.
I will have to make sure I buy a lot of food ahead of time. My vacation might last a month. I get “cabin fever” every year, but some years are worse than others and this one is probably the worst in a very long time. It started early due to my injury which kept me indoors earlier than normal. Muffin has “cabin fever” too. She gets that look. It’s a special look. Fortunately I wear slippers now that winter is here. Helps to protect my feet. From cold. And teeth. Okay, I’m just kind of babbling today. Thanks for stopping by, have a great day and God bless!
Steve and Muffin.
© 2020 Steve McLeod.
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