Countrymouse Posted November 2018
On My Mind
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Replacing the much lamented 'On My Mind' profile option, this thread is for musings, jottings, whimsies, preoccupations and the rest of the thesaurus for anyone to jot down anything they please.
I can't remember what the maximum character count was before, can anyone else? But anyway it wasn't very many so let's keep to that.
We flew into Boston. We also went to Lexington, Concord and Salem. I loved the clam chowder! We don’t have clams here. We have oysters, shrimp and crawfish 🦞 and crab.
New England is beautiful in the fall.
I am surprised that my daughter is loving the snow in Denver. She doesn’t seem to mind the cold.
I do feel the job opportunities are better for her there. She loves her job.
She says that she doesn’t miss our humidity.
She has a few friends that she went to college with that are living there too.
She isn’t socializing with any of them because of Covid but they talk on the phone.
She is working remotely. She doesn’t mind working at home and her company supplied her with the computers and monitors needed.
She says that she loves seeing views of the mountains. Even rescued a Siberian Husky dog that loves the snow! LOL
What happened to the southern gal that I raised? LOL, just kidding, I want her to be her 😊.
Good for you and your DH with the first class travel.💜
The coastline was really pretty. The lobster was fantastic! The bed and breakfast were lovely.
So long ago. We were young. No kids. Sweet memories of our youth.
Those were the days when airline comps were fantastic!
My husband used to travel with work so much, tons of points racked up due to long international travel.
So our airfare, (first class) was free! Discounts on certain hotels and car rentals.
No discount on B&B’s but they are so charming in New England that we had to stay in a few of them.
A cousin's son and a close family friend have a maple sugaring business. We have some that will keep for a long time. Nothing better.
No thanks to hot weather! Pass - I need AC for the humidity of Maryland.
Not to mention the delicious Vermont maple syrup, right? Yummy!
We took my mother to the Mt Washington Hotel on her birthday in her eighties. We absolutely loved the area. I used to ski Mt Snow in VT and Mt Mansfield in Stowe VT, Stayed at the Von Trapp Lodge on occasion. I love Vermont especially in the fall, when the colors are so vivid and beautiful.
Years ago my husband and I stayed in a quaint bed and breakfast in Jackson, NH. It was located at the foot of Mt. Washington. Very small town!
That was a fun trip. We flew into Boston. Went to several places in Massachusetts, Stowe, Vermont, Kennebunkport, Maine and Jackson, New Hampshire.
You are so dead on! You’re absolutely correct about kids!
Snowing is so rare here! Usually, only a few flurries.
Well, one year when I was a kid, sorry I can’t remember the exact year. I know that I was young though.
We had a fair amount of snow, and my younger brother and I wanted to go play in it. My mom said, “No, you can’t. It’s too cold!”
Daddy was always respectful of my mom but he told my mom that he wanted to show us how to build a snowman and said she could make sure we were bundled up enough so we could go build a snowman.
Mom told my dad that she would get out our hats, mittens and jackets on and then we could go build a snowman with my daddy.
It’s still one of my very favorite memories with my dad. I was having so much fun that I don’t remember being cold 😊.
I remember not being bothered by the cold as a child. I ran and played outside.
As I grew older, I became more sensitive to the cold.
I have super cold hands if it is cold. If my feet are cold I am miserable!
You’re a tough cookie regarding the cold weather!
I am such a wuss! LOL
That’s wonderful news! My second vaccine is in March.
It will be fabulous when the majority of people are vaccinated, right?
We will be able to breathe a bit easier.
My cousin now has to be under the care of a pulmonologist. It breaks my heart to see people suffering with COVID-19.
Sure, some get over it fairly quickly but others don’t. Some don’t even survive 😞.
Have some hot tea 🍵!
That is too cold for me!
At one time my husband was offered a job in Massachusetts. I didn’t want to endure the cold New England winters.
Now though, I am sort of sorry that we didn’t try living in an area that experiences all four seasons.
We have visited during the autumn season and it was truly beautiful, as if God took a paint brush and painted all the leaves.
It was such a treat because we don’t see fall foliage here.
The snow is what scared me off the most!
re the self driving cars - it's the trial period which concerns me most. Nothing is infallible, though they may, in the end, be safer than humans driving.
I think that stifles creativity and coping mechanisms, as well as basic daily activities, but that's just my opinion. I decided years ago that I wouldn't ride with anyone who couldn't read a map but relied solely on the talking headless device for directions. That's soooo irritating when riding in a car.
Perhaps this willingness affects political issues as well, and demagogues will use this (as they already have) to their advantage. That's really frightening.
I was thinking the other day how much the CPI has and/or will continue to change to include presumably necessary tech devices. However, I'm not aware that affects SS benefits though. I certainly don't see much more than a nominal increase in mine.
This is particularly annoying, in part b/c the rush to go "everything tech" raises the issue, as someone else posted, of registering for a COVID vaccine. I refuse to register online, just as I refuse to use online "resources" as a substitute for safer ones.
I did relapse at one point last year b/c I couldn't make payments (taxes) at the municipalities b/c of their closure. It wasn't long afterward that I began getting spam, which I've never had in the last several years. Tracing them back showed one was from a source in Argentina, and I can't remember where the other one was, but it wasn't the US.
It might be that municipalities don't have the ability to make decisions that commercial entities do. I wouldn't expect the amateurs running the local government to be on a level with Chase Bank, which I would trust for protection of personal data.
And think of the derivative issues of tech devices: Computers and smart phones emit blue light, so now we have to get glasses for protection against that (although I'm told that smart phones do have blue light protection).
What do people who don't wear glasses do? Buy glasses just for blue light protection? After I got my last pair and dug into the itty bitty print, I learned that the glasses only provide 20% blue light protection. And what about e-readers? How much if any blue light protection do they provide?
So (a) reading (b) watching tv and (c) computer use now require blue light protection. I've read that some devices have filters that can be turned on, but I haven't found them yet, especially since there seems to be a trend toward not providing readable manuals; it's all online or in the device, which means spending more time looking at a blue light device while trying to figure out how to activate the protection against blue light eye damage. Smart? I'd say incredibly stupid.
What I haven't seen mentioned in the glowing accolades of the benefits these devices provide is the issue of tech device recycling and disposal.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=electronic+waste&t=h_&ia=images&iax=images
Those images are terrifying, even if there are methods of recycling. Granted that new industries have been created to address this, but the issue remains that tech devices still create a lot of e-waste.