IT WAS A YEAR AGO TUESDAY A HOT AIR BALLOON NEARLY LANDED ON TOP OF JEEPERS NEAR SEDONA AZ…KELLY IS ACTUALLY BEHIND THE JEEP BENDING OUR BIG WHIP AERIAL DOWN
Just gotta love these mid to upper 70’s day time temps & 50’s night time temperatures. Sunshine every day & the 10 day forecast calls for more of the same. Spring is well underway here in Arizona:))
A YEAR AGO TODAY IN SEDONA
I’m afraid since returning from our fine boondocking week away my days have been melding into one kind of long sameness of which most of my time has been spent just simply sitting in a chair reading. Now that’s Okay of course for maybe a few hours here & there but my eyes are worn out, I’ve got sitting callouses you know where & my legs have stiffened up like a couple old rusted door hinges. My mind has been entertained but not challenged. Feels like my ambition has been dropped into yesterday’s dumpster like tomorrow’s trash & any creative urges I have felt the past few days only resulted in me trying a dusting of cinnamon on my shredded wheat this morning. I’m going to have to shake some of this Arizona dust off. Something tells me I am missing my Bayfield country road Jeep drives with the Pheebs which in turn tells me I am beginning to cast my eyes northward anticipating next months long journey home to the land of Pine trees, large lakes, endless gravel roads, forests & fields of green. There comes a time each Autumn & each Spring when like a migrating bird it is once again time to move on. I welcome & always impatiently look forward to those changes of routine each & every year…………….
A SEDONA CAMPFIRE
GROANER’S CORNER:(( There's a little fellow named Junior who hangs out at the local grocery store. The manager doesn't know what Junior's problem is, but the boys like to tease him. They say he is two bricks short of a load, or two pickles shy of a barrel. To prove it, sometimes the boys offer Junior his choice between a nickel and a dime. He always takes the nickel, they say, because it's bigger. One day after Junior grabbed the nickel, the store manager got him off to one side and said, "Junior, those boys are making fun of you. They think you don't know the dime is worth more than the nickel. Are you grabbing the nickel because it's bigger, or what?" Junior said, "Well, if I took the dime, they'd quit doing it!"
The analogy of being like a migratory bird is excellent! Even though I no longer travel in an RV, I get the urge to look to the east shortly after the New Year, and then back to the weat coast in mid to late summer.
ReplyDeleteI read some kind of medical piece recently that said that it isn't so much that exercise is good for you, as it is that sitting is bad for you.
ReplyDeleteThe time is coming when it will be your turn to head north with all the other 'birds'
ReplyDeleteAre you kidding me.... they have snow measured in feet back there..........!!
ReplyDeleteHopefully by the time you get home the weather in Ontario will be better.
ReplyDeleteMy Dad would have said about Junior,"He's not as green as he's cabbage-looking."
We know we are here, nothing but many feet of snow and way too cold, don't rush those thoughts too soon.
ReplyDeleteMaybe a slow leisurely drive back here would be nice, like via Florida and visit Aunt Jean, lots cool places to explore and a nice change of pace. Wish we could do that right now.
How about one more outing to cool those traveling pangs? Weather is wonderful here at the beach in southern California.
ReplyDeleteSounds like you should take another trip or two before heading back north. Itc's not the where so much as just the going.
ReplyDeleteI so agree with Merikay - our planning and getting there is always so exciting.
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I recognize those feelings of change come spring and fall. Come end of April I'll be back at the canyon and under the tall pines. In the meantime, I want to soak up the desert heat. Hike today up Palm Canyon for wildflowers.
ReplyDeleteAl, I think your biological clock is running a bit fast. Do not hurry back north just yet. :-)
ReplyDeleteWithout other "schedules" to keep, we would naturally be looking forward to the change that comes with the equinoxes - and spring is a month away now :-) I don't imagine you want to be back in the snow, but are seeing with anticipation all that spring and summer will be in Bayfield. For sure there will be plenty to keep you busy in that forest garden!
ReplyDeleteand it's colder than a... well I won't go there.. record breaking cold here to say the least!!
ReplyDeleteAl, the ice cover is actually increasing on the Great Lakes, as we speak. Gary and Merikay might be onto something.
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