Steve`s Country
For a smile as wide as a country sunrise
Winter Daydreams. I think.
Well, here we are. Another month. Another winter month. Another cold winter month. Another very cold winter month. And it just doesn’t seem like we are getting any closer to spring. The only thing to change over the past month is we have more snow. Lots of snow. Snow means cold. Very cold. And it certainly is cold. Not as bad as it could be I guess. But it just doesn’t want to go away. And we still have another 2 months or more to go. Sigh. Okay, maybe I talk too much about the cold. But, hey, it’s kind of like a hobby. Personally, I would like to be in Hawaii right now. AAAAhhh, just think of it. Laying under the palm trees. Enjoying all that warmth. Walking along the beach, no one else around. After all, who wants a beach full of people. This is my daydream. I enjoy the quietness of a stroll along the beach, a gentle ocean breeze, the only noise is that from the birds flying overhead, and the gentle lapping of waves on the beach. Then going for a walk along a nice trail through all that tropical growth, plants, trees, flowers, and more birds singing. Of course, this might be best done in the early morning and then stopping somewhere for a nice breakfast overlooking that beautiful blue ocean. Such a nice thought. Why would anyone want to live anywhere else? This is the place to be. Then checking out all that beautiful scenery that fills this group of islands. Not just along the shore, but inland, with its mountains, hills, valleys, lowlands and tropical everywhere you go. Okay, maybe not on the mountain tops, but I won’t go up there. Well, okay, maybe to check out a volcano. Just so restful. So enjoyable. So warm. A good place to spend a month or two while winter rages on in my own neck of the woods. Who cares about winter in a place like that? Can’t even imagine winter in this gorgeous location. Does it really exist? Or is winter just a terrible dream? We can wake up and it’s not really there at all. Let me open my eyes and…sigh. It’s still there. Just as brutal as ever. Snow, ice, cold, very cold, always cold…sigh. Oh well. Maybe one of these days. Right. But dreams can be nice sometimes. Especially in the middle of winter. Which is where we are at right now. Okay, maybe not where you live. But here. But the birds are still around. And the deer. Amazing their skinny legs don’t freeze solid in this weather. They just walk around like there is no snow or cold, munching away on whatever they can find. Usually just twigs this time of year. I hang out fat for the birds. It is well liked by many of our winter friends. Chickadees, nuthatches, downy and hairy woodpeckers, grey jays. They all enjoy it, gives them some good winter warmth, and those poor little critters need all the help they can get. Had a wolf around the other night. He is huge. His feet are also huge. Poor Muffin. She likes dogs, but wolves are a different thing altogether. She gets terrified when a wolf comes around. Which doesn’t happen often. Probably a good thing. He’s likely hungry this time of year, and he might not be too picky about what he has for supper. Always makes me a bit cautious coming around the corner to my deck at night. What if he is on the deck? He might not like being cornered like that. Might get him excited. In the wrong sort of way kind of excitement. Sigh. Would like to get a picture of that one though. But from a safer location. Oh well. Guess I should stop once again. Nice to just babble about nothing in particular once in a while. Until next time, enjoy your week, think warm and God bless!
Steve. And Muffin. And critters.
It’s International Cabin Fever Day!
Well, here we are. It’s the last Friday of January. And that means, of course, that it’s International Cabin Fever Day!! Wheehee!! And a great big HAPPY CABIN FEVER DAY to all my brave readers!!! Believe me, if you are reading these ‘musings’ each week, then you truly are brave. Or perhaps crazy like me! I know that some of you have actually been with me ever since the very beginning. And that was a long time ago. Amazing. Some of you need to get out more. I hope you have been enjoying your Cabin Fever Day. You know, presents, birthday party (hey, this is CABIN FEVER we are talking about here), paper party hats. Muffin ate hers. Well, she tore it apart with her teeth anyway. She always likes to do that. It’s the lion in her. We played games, like her favorite, Skiffleball. Then we chased each other around the apartment. That doesn’t take long, this place is quite small. But it does have it’s cozy feel. Which I like. The chase was going well until I tripped over the stool in the bedroom and ended up smashing against a cabinet, then bumping into the bed, then landing in Muffin’s water dish. So much for that water dish. She now has a new one. Hopefully I wasn’t the one that put that dent in the washing machine. Who puts a washing machine in a bedroom anyway. Should be in the bathroom. Okay, the bathroom isn’t big enough. But a minor change would have fixed that little problem. Even the birds got a treat today. You should have seen them. Bouncing around out there on the feeder. They seemed to be quite happy. Yes, I know. But it is terribly hard not to feed them when they sit out there all day long, looking in the window with those sad eyes, cooing so softly, looking over at the empty feeder, then looking in the window again. Kind of gets a person. Muffin agrees. She wants me to feed them more. Get them nice and fat. Then invite them in for supper. She can’t fool me. I know why she wants them inside. HA! Like I’m really that stupid. Well, okay, maybe sometimes. Fine, most of the time. Well, sometimes I’m not. Sigh. It’s winter and I’m, I’m…ready to bang my head on the wall, pull my hair (what little I have left), roll on the floor (okay, already did that one today), and, and… AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It’s okay. I’m fine. I’m calm. I think. Sigh. And there is still so much of winter left. I don’t think I’m going to make it this year. Every year it gets worse. Muffin agrees. She used to need a reason to bite my foot. Now, it’s just because it’s there. We just sit here staring at each other, rolling our eyes, sticking our tongues out at each other (yes, she does that), jumping up and down for no reason (well, I have a reason, my foot is sore), then we both lay flat on the floor and don’t move (that is easy for me). Sigh. At least it has been a bit warmer the last few days. But next week, back to the deep cold. Sigh. Then there is Fuzzy, to the left, I hope. Depends if this works. Otherwise there will be no Fuzzy. But I will still be here. I hope. I see it didn’t work. Sigh. Fuzzy always enjoys coming for a visit. And being petted. And of course getting ‘scritched’ around the ears. All deer like that it seems. She always comes running up to me as soon as I go out (which is only as often as necessary this time of year), her tail wagging, much like a dog. Amazing really. Muffin always likes to say ‘hi’ to the deer also. But she doesn’t get to see them up close anymore since they rarely come up on the deck now. Speaking of sleeping. I’m not. But I was. Sleeping, that is, last night, which is quite normal for me to do, and I woke up just after 1am, I’m just laying there, still not quite fully awake, when suddenly it hits me, something is burning. Now, I don’t know about you, but that is not something I want to smell anytime, much less at 1am. Woke me up fast. Smelled sort of like plastic, or maybe wires, burning. No smoke though, and I couldn’t find where the smell was coming from. Still, I had to stay up for awhile just in case. Good way to end sleeping for the night. Finally decided it must be from outside. So went back to bed. Muffin couldn’t figure out what was going on, I don’t normally get out of bed so quickly. Sigh. Speaking of bed. No, I will save that for another time. It’s time to call it quits for today. The sun has set, just to the right. Hopefully. If it doesn’t I think I might cry. Or scream. But screaming scares Muffin. Okay, it’s below instead. This idea obviously isn’t working too well. Sigh. I hope you all enjoy the rest of your CABIN FEVER DAY and your weekend. God bless!
Steve and Muffin. And a bunch of other critters. Wheehee!!
10 extra points if you can guess where that pic is taken, a special gift to the one who answers first!
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