QuidNunc/QuidTunc?

I think I am on a roll. I picked eggplant and tomatoes out of the garden. I made yummy pizza margarita for lunch with eggplant , peppers, basil and tomato, all freshly picked out of the garden. Well, the polar bears’ loss is my gain , I guess.

A chance of snow showers??????? Maybe that’s whay the juncos are hanging around. Better check my bird food supply and make sure the rats haven’t gotten into it! Oh , Jo-el…….

Out my big picture window in the living room were what I call “All the happy , little juncoes.” I love juncoes, I am sure I have said it before. They travel in groups and flit around so fast that if you run for the camera, they will be gone. They seem to be cold weather birds. I never see them in the summer. They are charcoal colored and I love to watch them find the bird seed on the white snow, but today they were finding plenty to do in my driveway and around the pond, including catching a sip of water. Then there were a couple large flocks of geese, one has been grazing the freshly harvested corn fields and the other was in formation going somewhere…. the next corn field maybe. It is not hard to catch a squirrel or two running around with a nut in its mouth this time of year. A few minutes later I looked out again and there was Mr. Redtail Hawk, sitting on top of the backboard to the basketball hoop, leaning forward and peering into my house! The picture window was a straight shot for him! I watched him for a while, seeing the breeze catch his feathers and watching him turn his head all the way around like owls do, must be a bird of prey thing. Then I thought about my little fishies and moved enough to watch him fly off. My apologies if ‘he’ is a ’she’. I really can’t tell.

So I have been on the job hunt lately. I haven’t got a job, Nor am I waiting for something I am excited about. It is educational, however. I did have an interview for a fairly nice job this week, but it boils down to working in a small warehouse. I have spent the last 6 years in a windowless classroom and I am NOT going to do a warehouse job. The other warehouse had windows, but it was noisy. Not doing that either. So next week I am going to apply for making salad  and cutting desserts. At least I will have something pleasant to look at. I just can’t do something right now that takes a whole lot of brains. It just feels so overwhelming to me. At the beginning of the week I get all excited and by the end of the week I think, “I Don’t want to do this!”

I bought one of those nice leather journals you get at mega bookstores last summer and I began it last week. It is not a normal journal. It has categories, with tabs dividing the categories. I wanted to record things like the books I read. Sometimes I can’t remember!! The things I did in the garden, what was fantastic this year, and what I wish I would have done. Music I hear on the radio and wish for that recording, household hints and food tryouts I want to remember for their worth or lack of it! R. gave me a little ‘Florentine’ book years ago which I have kept in my Bible for a spiritual journal, and I have just filled it up. So I have a section in my journal for that as well. I hope it will be a treasure. When I was homeschooling the kids, we read a journal kept by George Washington’s grandaughter, whom he and Martha raised, along with her brother, at Mount Vernon. We loved that book and I thought that if no one had taken the time to write it down, we would have missed that pleasure 200 years later. The power of writing things down.

Happy November, everybody!