I've been sitting around way too much this winter. I decided today that besides the fact I can now get out and walk in good weather, I need also to start an indoor exercise program.
Remembering this morning that I created an exercise routine for my sis, back when we were in our mid 50's, I figured that if I could find them again it would give me motivation to get started.
So I went on a search for some sketches. Now I can start to get healthy and fit again.
Hi to whoever stops by. I thought it was time to update my blog again seeing as it's March. I meant to do it on March 1, but time got away from me.
As far as weather where I am in the mountains in So Cal, luckily we have gotten only about 7 or 8" inches of snow all winter. We have mostly had a WHOLE lot of rain. All the lakes in the mountains up here are at full capacity as far as I know. I've only gotten over to our lake and Lake Arrowhead recently and hope to get out more and once the dry weather comes to get back to walking and hiking.
Toward the end of January I had taken these photos over at Lake Arrowhead. It's always so beautiful at that lake.
I know up north has really gotten hit with a major blizzard the last few days. I feel for them big time. Not fun stuck on highways with huge snow fall.
Hope is well with you and your families. It's a crazy time in the world.
Here are some photos from the latest snow storm we had which although it wasn't a lot of inches of snow it was so cold that the snow stayed on the trees for several days.
Is your year starting out like you hoped? My year so far is filled with thoughts of getting out to various places and seeing something different than mountain trees. I'm ready for a road trip but don't see that happening any time soon.
I think in a few months I will be going back to the central coast to offer some support to my niece and family in taking care of my brother-in-law with Alzheimers. They do need a break at times and it's something I can help with here and there.
So here's where my thoughts have been. On the road. I would love to have an RV and just take off whenever the mood hits. But...how in the heck do people afford the gas. At least in California it's still so expensive.
These are photos are people travel up the 101 in California.
Saying hello and I'm back after some time spent at my niece's house near the coast in Arroyo Grande.
I went for about three weeks to help out and enjoyed seeing them again. My niece was still in a grieving mode since my sister passed last December. We were able to have long talks and hopefully it helped her. She is the only child and doesn't have brothers or sisters to help support her. Along with her mother passing, her dad has severe Alzheimers so it's like she lost both parents. He is living with her but to me it's obvious he doesn't really know for sure who she is. I went there to help keep an eye on him while they worked and both she and her husband started new jobs which will give them a better schedule to help deal with his needs. I had to remind him often who I was even though my sister and I were close and often spent vacations with them at the coast.
Back home it's mountain chilly and foggy at times but recently several days of sun before a storm moves in tomorrow for several days. I don't mind the rain - just hoping we don't have a blizzard like last year when the snow starts at some point.
All is well here - just haven't been too inspired to blog. I was having trouble with blogger recently and finally today figured out what was going on. I hadn't been able to post photos to blogger or comment at other blogs using my google acct. It's all working fine now.
Maybe more news next time I post - something that would be interesting, lol.
Life goes on up here in the mountains at a much slower pace than in the past (Past meaning about 12 years or so ago when I lived down the mountain) . Back then I would often get bored and also had money, lol...to visit TJ Max, Kohl's, Marshalls and other fun places to spend money on useless items I didn't need. Oh yeah, don't get me started on Pic and Save which became Big Lots and was a black hole when it came to buying NOTHING i needed. Now my time is spent going through stuff and deciding what to get rid of. That's what keeps me busy or going through so many photo albums trying to figure out how to divide them up and give the photos to each kid without spending the rest of my retirement doing that (there are SO MANY PHOTOS)... now including photos of grandkids.
And to add to the above, my dad wrote out his biography a few years before he passed away in 2001 and it is very very long, many typed pages and handwritten pages also. With that, there is a whole lot of art work, poetry, and an album filled simply with his across country trip he took after my mom died. In that album are photos of each place he stopped, a poem to go with each state, etc. I literally don't know how to manage making copies of this for all four of my guys. The problem is a lot of it is handwritten and won't copy well so it needs to be typed up. Two of the guys especially want copies and I'm sure the other two would also.
I'll figure it all out next winter when we are snowed in again.
Thank God my mom didn't appear to have a lot of talents except cooking and playing the piano by ear. She could really honky tonk that piano. She didn't garden, paint, write stories, or put anything down on paper I would need to copy and put together. But, she loved to dance and really was a fun mom in her younger years when we were kids. She died in 1985 so as I got older I never got to ask the questions I would have but didn't think to in my 30's. Like who was she really - ...I have no idea, other than my mom.
Anyway a few photos from another trip down to Redlands to go to the Kimberly Crest House. I love to hang around the fountain and see the fish and lily pads. I've never taken a tour of the inside - one of these days we will. I believe the photo of the smaller building is in the back of the mansion and I think that is where some of the help stayed. Not sure about that. Next to this mansion is a beautiful park to walk through. I can spend hours down there.
