When it’s height of the pollen season–not the best idea to see about tapering off on the pills.  Ha.  Cough.  Sneeze.
Last few days have been awful, but getting better again.

Mockingbird singing on my porch at 3AM, with babies peeping along.

Red rose bush out front needs stakes to hold it up.  So many blooms it’s about to break apart.  Irises that haven’t bloomed in years are blooming this year.  One out front has huge blue bloom.  Dutch Mini irises blooming–blues and yellows.  Other roses blooming–purple, red, white, yellow. 

Happy Full Moon!

I guess three months is the longest I’ve been off on here.  Azaleas and dogwoods blooming.  I’ve been working at a sports merchandize place.  The type of pricey stuff with the shiny franchise labels on them.  One coworker has left, so more hours for me.  Only have a bar stool to sit on, which is a little hard on the back.  Got gang banged a few weeks ago–grab and dash.  Wasn’t fun.  I have lion whips and tasers now. 

Well lets see. I brought the cold weather back with me from Indiana late December, and it was a deep freeze for here for about two and half weeks. Somewhat warmer now, relatively speaking, but right now is windy, rainy and in the 30s. Green tips of crocuses, daffodils and hyacinth slowly working their way up. Too many squirrels, but I’ve been told the hawk is back. Neighborhood cats have discovered my birdfeeder, and like to stalk the buffet.

Garden Ridge had the holiday remnants of Halloween, autumn and Christmas for 25 cents apiece, so I probably got several hundred dollars of decorative debris for 16. The black and silver bows will go well for Halloween, with the sprays of metallic purple pink berries. This year was a minimalist Christmas. I looped some lights on the porch, and inside the house spread around some of my mother’s hand painted holiday ceramics from the class she went to when my father was getting the chemotherapy–that they hid from me for years back then. And the tree was a ceramic tree with lights she also did. I took the rubber gargoyle off its Grecian pedestal column in my bedroom and topped it with said tree in the living room. Next year I think I’ll do the Halloween Tree thing again, and just leave it up. The year before I had a Halloween Tree, then a 60′s Christmas Tree, then a Mardi Gras Tree, which is why this year I felt taking a break–haha–

Yankee Candles has their spring line of inflammatory delights out now. “Beautiful Day,” “Early Sunrise,” and “Midnight Jasmine” are in the running. Haha

I worked out yesterday for first time in too long. End of summer I’d lost so much weight and was getting big arms then–drum roll–poison ivy–and down hill from there. I had great momentum and lost it. But time to roll back up the hill.

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Carmina Burana–by Carl Orff

1. O Fortuna (Chorus) (O Fortune)

O Fortuna O Fortune,
velut luna like the moon
statu variabilis, you are changeable,
semper crescis ever waxing
aut decrescis; and waning;
vita detestabilis hateful life
nunc obdurat first oppresses
et tunc curat and then soothes
ludo mentis aciem, as fancy takes it;
egestatem, poverty
potestatem and power
dissolvit ut glaciem. it melts them like ice.
Sors immanis Fate – monstrous
et inanis, and empty,
rota tu volubilis, you whirling wheel,
status malus, you are malevolent,
vana salus well-being is vain
semper dissolubilis, and always fades to nothing,
obumbrata shadowed
et velata and veiled
michi quoque niteris; you plague me too;
nunc per ludum now through the game
dorsum nudum I bring my bare back
fero tui sceleris. to your villainy.
Sors salutis Fate is against me
et virtutis in health
michi nunc contraria, and virtue,
est affectus driven on
et defectus and weighted down,
semper in angaria. always enslaved.
Hac in hora So at this hour
sine mora without delay
corde pulsum tangite; pluck the vibrating strings;
quod per sortem since Fate
sternit fortem, strikes down the strong man,
mecum omnes plangite! everyone weep with me!

Well–on the edit page the two columns I spent a few minutes separating the text into show, but not as such on the public page.

Haha

I guess the actual translated lyrics aren’t very cheerful–but you know the dramatic music when you hear it.

As the wind outside rattles my windows.

( I guess I’m not on xanga much–but seems in the olden days of yore–they had more edit functions–like for centering, and paragraph indentation. Or maybe it’s not working tonight.

I hope everyone had a great Christmas. I greyhounded back up to Lafayette Indiana again. No storm of the century where I was at, though it was cold and windy and periodic snow. Got back in yesterday morning. The bus isn’t the most comfortable thing, but it is the least expensive. And you meet interesting people–haha– On the way up for part of it I was with several Marines on the loose from Camp Lejeune, and some young lady telling alleged stories of the Zurich sex entertainment business. I kind of think she was making up stories to stir them up–haha–but–it was interesting.

Very foggy here. Going to Shorter AL tomorrow to the casino. Really–it’s more the buffet–just camp out in there. Other than that–play the nickel and penny machines and see how long I can make it last. Last few times I’ve come out ahead, but I’m not a high roller.

Yesterday afternoon it was 44F, and for a while was sleeting and snowing. More daffodil and crocus tips coming up. I still have some new bulbs to feed the squirrels with–I mean–plant…

Happy New Year! And–Happy Blue Moon!

Yip, howl, bark–

Wil

Watched the solstice sun set through the tree limbs last night. Had flashback that I’d done the same last year but had forgotten about it. Sort of otherworldly orange in another world or time.

Still some leaves on trees, though green daffodil tips and crocus tips have been coming up for sometime. Gray cat makes the rounds of checking out the environs of the birdfeeder.

The usual odd mixture of feelings this time of year.

But–I hope everyone has a great Christmas weekend!

Was warm and windy the other night–which made for nice walk to look at neighborhood lights. Supposed to be 20s tonight–which will make for nice walk to look at neighborhood lights. haha

Since finally had hard freeze, killing frost, I can now clean up the flower beds. I did have a lot of summer plants still blooming–marigolds, white impatiens, red salvia, elephant ears, and a pink begonia–but no more– Roses took a hit too–but buds might still bloom. Camelias aren’t dong anything.

Is Christmas Eve only two weeks away? Hmmm

A number of daffodil spouts are up, and I found some crocus green shoots too.

My massive butterfly bush I trimmed back. Different to have so much space now.

Hope everyone had a fattening food stuffing day. We ate at Blue Willow Inn east of Atlanta. Always good, and I was an ever so stuffed turkey–haha–

Drinking coffee and watching birds at my refilled bird feeder. I wish they’d quit flying into the windows though. The loud thwacking thump noise startles the frak out of me–haha–

Wil Carter—- I hope everyone has a good Thanksgiving! If you live in Atlanta–the space station and shuttle will pass overhead from NW to SE almost directly over head around 6:40 – 6:41 PM, like 2 bright stars.

I guess if anybody’s listening or watching–I could surprize with a blog.

No particular reason for the gap–other than time goes by.

Cut some shrubs today, and put up some holiday lights. Going for the blue and white lights 60s look this year. And the multicolored Christmas ball wreath, inside the larger wreath of white lights.

Working on yard now to get ready for spring, instead of waiting until February to plant (fatten squirrels) bulbs.

Halloween was rainy. Had about 26 treaters. About same as last year, and way down from 64 before that.

I think we’re going to Indian Springs State Park Saturday. Get the medicinal sulfur water. Lunch at Buckner’s in Jackson. All you can eat place.

Went to my first Powwow last weekend at Stone Mountain Park. Colorful and interesting. Would like to do more, but I guess the season is over for now.

Weekend before that we went to Helen GA for the last day of Oktoberfest. Had some street performers there. British guy wearing one man band devices like from a scene in Mary Poppins. Sweet, petite French woman was making balloon hats and the like. To have so little and be living such a hand to mouth existence–they seemed to have better attitudes than most people.