Upside Down, Nose to The Ground

I was talking to my Dad in New Brunswick a while ago and asked him about the dear situation. My niece sent photos and I heard many stories this winter of deer gathering in fields. The photos are from March, of a harvested cabbage field near Sussex. The snow in the woods was very deep this winter and deer were forced to stay outside. Dad says there are still a lot of deer visible in fields wherever they go. Though there isn't any on fields now, snow disappears from the woods last. Check out the body position of the deer near center in the top photo. Isn't that hilarious?

Another sunny, cool day. Very nice but you need a jacket or sweater, a tee shirt if you're a teenager or trying to prove something. Brrr. I did more gardening and am heading out again. Scallops for dinner tonight. I'm enjoying all the fish but miss The Son too. Heard through his sister that they were eating in a restaurant in Holland that he and she had eaten in when they were there before. I think my other son is heading to Europe this week too. If so and they overlap time they are not overlapping location.

I first think of Home on the Range by Megan Mullally from Will and Grace. Got that and then there's Buffalo Girl by Chris Bathgate. Got that. Instead how about two that you'll say, "Is this from Cuidado?" Bowie and Massive Attack with Nature Boy and Walk In the Woods by Shipwreck. What can I say?

Home Again, Home Again

This says it all! The end of my vacation was spent in the company of these little cuties and their lovely parents. I had such a great time with my grandkids. I was a playing and reading machine for one and someone new to melt for the other. We spent the whole day outside yesterday after a couple of days of rain. Grandma was happy!

I was moved many times as I visited the young and the old. In your fifties you really get to see both sides of life. I visited an uncle with dementia but watched his grandchildren flourishing. My father's partner was having serious medical issues so I was in frequent contact with him all the while visiting with my own grandchildren. Life and it's decline keep happening.

Coming home is always nice and a bit surreal. Everything you left is right there where you left it, metaphorically. There are always changes....there has been a death of a good friend's loved one, blank election signs are up, the 20 - 25 year can ban has been lifted. Life and death kept happening.

I've missed picking out music. After those last couple of paragraphs, I've chosen something light. Megan Mullally from Will and Grace ( did you know she could sing?) does a nice version of Home on the Range and Chantel Kreviazuk does an updated version of the Beatles' song In My Life.