It’s been a fairly uneventful week, and I am thankful it was. This little visit from Old Man Winter has me feeling all crummy, achy, stiff and sore. I wish the Nebraska weather would just pick a season and stick with it for a while. A tropical vacation is sounding really good right now. I think I have just enough cash to make it somewhere warmer, although I would have to stay and live in a box on the beach because I wouldn’t have enough to make it back. I wonder? Could I make a box on the beach work? LOL!

When it’s not wintertime cold, I love fall! It’s my favorite season. I love watching the grass and trees change colors, and I love the smell. The air is crisp and smells wonderful. I had walked across the street to Mom’s the other day. As I was coming home I caught the smell of the leaves. I probably looked silly, but I reached down and grabbed some out of the gutter and breathed them in. I wish someone in the candle business could get that smell right. None of the “fall scents” do it justice.

My pup was full of energy last night. I had to take him out a little after midnight and play with him for about an hour before he would let me go back to sleep. I’m not sure what got into him, but he wanted to play a lot rougher than I did. He found out quickly that Mama could hold her own. He is teething and constantly nipping at me. He has a soft mouth and would have possibly made for a good bird dog, but every once in a while, when he is playing, he bites down a little harder than he should. He was doing just that last night, and I wasn’t having it. So I shoved my whole fist in his mouth a couple of times. He got the hint, for the time being. I dropped him off at the vet this morning for a little snippety snip, I’m hoping that calms him down just a bit.

I detest watching and reading the news. It’s depressing, and I’m doing my best to stay out of the psychiatric ward. Despite all that, I have been trying to stay up to date on what’s happening in the world, and especially Israel, without making myself ill. All I can do is pray, pray for the innocent, pray for the guilty and pray that this senseless violence ends soon. X’s & O’s.