It is a NEW YEAR.

Good Morning and Welcome to the DEEP FREEZE.

ARGH, cold temperatures for the next week.

On the plus side our winter has been relatively mild until this cold snap.

Should we be complaining?

Likely not.

But will we?

Likely yes.

 

My carpool decided to take today off from work.

Usually this would mean that I would be taking the bus.

Lucky for me, my neighbour is giving me a ride to work.

I am on my own going home.

One way is okay.

 

Well this has placed a damper on our walks for the next days.

Usually Alvin likes to mull around outside when he is out doing his business or just hanging out.

Not now.

He does his business and runs back to the house.

Not much coaxing which is fine by me.

No offer of a treat to come inside.

Likely best for the waistline.

So we are playing more ….. Alvin is playing more if truth be told.

 

Tonight down comes the Christmas tree and then I will spend part/most of the weekend taking down the decorations.

Thankfully I only have a couple of items outside.

The wreath on the door and a small tree on the porch.

The wreath I can quickly grab despite the cold but the tree can remain on the porch until the temperature warms up.

It will be good to get back to the normal decorations although it does seem bare in the house for a few days.

But sometimes BARE is good.

Actually I have so  much Christmas ….. it looks like a store.

The rest of the year is much more low-key.

So that is good.

 

I was thinking of something as I was going to bed and of course, did not write it down.

A topic to write about this morning.

Note to self: when a great idea comes to your mind – WRITE IT DOWN, you silly girl.

 

I am also going back and forth between glasses this morning.

I have two pair.

One is older but as my prescription did not change, I can continue to wear them.

One pair has plastic frames, and the other are wire/metal.

The metal/wire frames sometimes bother by my ears.

But they have a slightly bigger lens and I like that.

I have to decide before wearing them for more than a minute or two otherwise will have a headache.

Small decision.

Will check out in the mirror and then decide.

 

What is new with you?

Did you set out with New Year Resolutions?

I did not, really.

I just try to do better than I did the year before in all aspects of my life.

Body, mind and soul.

 

Well almost time to head off downstairs.

On poop patrol.

Now those brown packages freeze before they hit the ground.

Easy to pick up.

 

I hope that on this cold Friday that you are warm and safe.

I wish that rain would extinguish ALL of the fires in Australia without massive flooding.

I wish that there would be PEACE in the Middle East and around the world.

I hope that everyone has a good day.

Yes, everyone.

Remember to breathe.

Go to the bathroom and fake yell if you need that release.

Shake it off.

Put one foot in front of the other!

Soon you will be walking out the door or opening doors to better things.

 

Happy Friday.

 

Always, Carol & Alvin

Thought for the day……

Last night as I laid down to sleep …… I thought of something great to relate to you this morning on my blog.

But alas, my memory seems to be on “slow recall” and those favoured thoughts have faded somewhere in between going to sleep and my dreams.

I know that I was dreaming ….. but of what !!!

I do keep a pen and notebook in my night table.

So the thought for this day is …… when you are going to sleep and get a grand idea for the next day or whenever ….. WRITE IT DOWN.

Sometimes depending on memory when you are going to sleep can be ….. well you get the picture……

I truly wished that I could pull those grand thoughts to the forefront of my memory ….. use some magic trick to bring them forward.

Oh well, no use “going on about such things” …..

I hope that you have a blessed and grand FRIDAY.

May you receive something special ….. today…..just for you……something that you have been wishing for …. for a long time…..

Happy Friday….

Keep your thoughts good …. because your thoughts do become the things of your life.

I know this for sure…..

 

Always, Carol

 

P.S. Both Alvin and I slept until the alarm clock went off …… oh, I didn’t count the time that I got up (around 3:00 a.m.) to go to the little girl’s room.  LOL

Perhaps that was sharing too much.  But as you get older …. it happens….. O Happy Days…….

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