Tulip Shadows

Thank goodness for the tulips because it is raining too much and too steadily to get a picture or, for that matter, go outside at all. Even Ozzie doesn't want to go out except for the necessary, which he does with dispatch and hustles back inside. The tulips have grown another few inches overnight but lacking sunlight have nowhere to turn but down toward the table.

We made a quick visit to Dana's to say hello to the boys, who are both home from school, and see the new car, a Honda Accord, Will got for his 21st birthday. 

OilMan and I had been married for two years when I turned 21 and we bought our first new car, a 1965 midnight blue Mustang convertible. We kept that car until the third child made it impractical, and we sold it to a friend for $200. I'm told that had we kept it, it would now be worth a small fortune. But life moves on and we can rarely predict what will happen in the next hour, never mind fifty years in the future....

We stayed a bit longer to watch Planet Earth, narrated by David Attenborough on Jim's new enormous 'windowpane' television which is apparently the very latest technology with 4k pixels. Did I just write that? I have no idea what it means, other than the fact that it is more advanced than most programs which aren't 4k.  I loved Planet Earth the first time around, and I have always loved David Attenborough since he had his own program on telly in the '70's when we lived in Edinburgh. I don't know if what we were watching today was 4k but it was awesome. 

My family didn't get a television until I was 14 or 15 and of course it was black and white. OilMan and I bought our first color television, a huge Zenith console containing the picture tube, to watch 'Roots' in color when it showed to much fanfare in 1977. We actually had to get up and walk across the room to change the channel (I think there were three to choose from) or turn it off. At some point I think we did get a remote, but it wasn't wireless and required a cord stretched across the room from the couch to the television. Since the room was also something of a hallway with a door on either side this too was impractical but preferable to actually standing up and taking three steps. 

I spent the entire afternoon today making Nana K's cookie dough into hundreds of Christmas tree, star and ornament shaped cookies. The ornament ones look like little bombs, probably because I repurposed an apple cookie cutter, but I think they will look more seasonal and festive when they get frosting and sprinkles on them. 

Flour everywhere required doing a load of wash, mopping the kitchen floor and cleaning the stove. The self cleaning oven is now doing its thing which smells like toxic waste, requiring the noisy fan to be on full blast .

Better than opening a door into the rain. I think I'll go watch television. Too bad it's not a windowpane, 4k, smart one.....