It’s amazing how easily your mind can play tricks on you. Certain events or holidays trigger an automatic response, right? For example; before Thanksgiving dinner has even begun to digest, we kick head-long into preparations for Christmas. April arrives and we think “taxes!”. It’s habit. It’s what’s next. Well … the last weekend of FebruaryContinue reading “Mind Games”
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February Choices
February has been a month of introspection, making life-changing choices and beginning to come to terms with those choices. It has also been the first month in nearly a year that I’ve felt a noticeable lessening of stress (in me) caused by the pandemic. Jerry and I qualified by age for our 1st covid-19 vaccineContinue reading “February Choices”
The Morning Buffet
I awoke to a fresh winter wonderland this morning – and some very unhappy birds! Their feeder was buried under 2-3” of white, fluffy snow and not a sunflower seed (their fav, hands down) to be had! Not exactly a blizzard 🤷♀️, but sort of inconvenient for the smaller birds. A few intrepid chickadees triedContinue reading “The Morning Buffet”
If I Could Be Anywhere …
Cabin fever usually hits Alaska some time in February. It looks like I’m diving in a few days early. ❄️ It’s not that I don’t find Alaska beautiful any time of year. And winter, in particular, is often truly spectacular. But there really can be such a thing as too much of a good thing.Continue reading “If I Could Be Anywhere …”