Musings

Tree to self a year or so ago, in a moody rumble: No one walking by on that sidewalk looks up at my green mop and crowning glory…what to do? Aha, I’ll send sprouts out of my bark at eye level.

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Getting clean…a fine idea for beginning the new year.

Traditional Southern New Year’s meal, also a fine idea.

As to the title, we were driving back to ATL from our tasty luncheon in the late afternoon. It turned out that we were driving into the sun, which on several stretches was directly in our eyes. This was additionally tricky because we were on a two-lane relatively rural road with no extra space between the pavement and the ditch. Tricky. The technical term is a sunshine slow-down.

A bit further along, we happened on lines of cars pulled off the road (just barely: narrow road, remember) and parked almost in the ditch, with people standing next to road or walking in the lanes to join clusters of loiterers. Very strange. We eased our way along, passing dozens more vehicles. Increasingly strange. Then, coming at us, driving slowly, we encountered a police car with flashing lights. And around another curve, we found a line of walking Buddhist monks, maybe a dozen, with a dog on a leash, following the police car.

I’m taking all this as good omens for our 2026.

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We had some fine times this year (on a personal level). Still, I’m very much looking forward to 2026.

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This morning we headed out on an errand and I noticed several houses had shrouded shrubs, mostly a white material, but sometimes black. A bit farther along, I noticed another black shroud, but it looked funny, so I looked closer, and discovered it was a covered motorcycle.

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The rising sun appears cheerful and upbeat for this shortest day. I’m anthropomorphizing again.

This evokes winter…with brown dried petals, and green lawn peeking through…so upbeat, despite the hibernal times.

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I’m calling this autumn gold. I find it much more approachable than Silver Glow, um?, nope: Cloud Dancer. That’s a shade of white being promoted for 2026, and that’s a purely dopey name.

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Our neighbor went for the easy, low-degree-of-difficulty, outdoor seasonal lighting. It’s a light with a slow-spinning color wheel in front of it pointed at the front of his house. Side benefit for us, the moving points of light come in our windows, too. [I would not be pleased at all if they came in the bedroom.]

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Grocery shopping almost always tops the chore list after a trip, as it did this morning. I looked in the fruit fridge display and thought, hmm, blueberry prices are cheaper, just a bit, but cheaper. Then, it hit me: the packages are the same, but now they have 11 oz, not 12. I’m still hot about it. [I tried to include the “flames” emoji, but my software won’t post it.]

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We rear-view-mirrored our A2 friends, and spent the afternoon (plus) with friends in one of the Grosse Pointes. We laughed a LOT, great fun.

This isn’t supposed to be frozen, but the heater conked out and the replacement didn’t work, and the replacement’s replacement is still in transit—if I have it right. Instead of sipping, the birds were busy at the feeders, and the squirrels were patrolling beneath them because they could not access the protected feeders.

We even got a chance to see their daughter’s new (to her) house, in which she’s installed an audio mixdown setup (I’m told that’s what it is). Need an album recorded? In our circle, she’s the one to call/text.

We’re on the move this evening, and I type this as we motor along parallel with Lake Erie’s southern shore. Yup, we sleep tonight in Ohio.

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Fast and _what_?

This was a manufacturer display we saw at a Meijer. This misspelling was on two of the four shelves.

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