The things in my head go ’round and ’round

Taking it easy this Labor Day morning. I have some major housecleaning to do, but right now I am just hangin’ and watching the news.

Took a small journey through the past, looking at what I was doing last year at this time and it seems that I was just a might bitter about having to work on Labor Day.

I also had one of my kids celebrate a birthday.

I didn’t have a Sheetz burger last night, I had frozen pizza, but it looks like my eating habits haven’t changed much over the past year. Nor my way of looking at things.

MLW and The Princess are coming home tomorrow. Consequently I have to clean up the beer bottles, and do the dishes. We had folks in on Saturday who painted, and finished putting up the cabinets in the kitchen. Now all we have to do is to paper the walls and the kitchen is done. That is exciting. We also upgraded the electrical service in this house finally. Now I can run the dishwasher and the microwave without popping breakers.

Looks like things are looking up.

What is going on in your world?

Namaste.

It is raining here in Penn’s Paradise.

Get it? Penn’s Paradise? William Penn? Penn-sylvania? Sylvan, paradise?

Sometimes I amuse the heck out of myself. Not having grown up in Pennsylvania I didn’t learn this in school. I had to figure it out all by myself.

Well, actually MLW told me about it one night when we were talking about words and their roots. We do those things every now and again. We are cool that way.

So what are you up to today?

I am going to be checking out some more of my Celebrity Vampires over at Outta My Mind in Mechanicsburg.

Cause, that is how I roll.

namaste

Driving home the other night, yes it is another communting discussion, I drove through a what I thought was fog but actually turned out to be wood smoke.  From someones fireplace, thankfully it wasn’t from someone’s house burning.  Though you would know if it were from a house burning due to the black smoke that a house fire produces, and the smell from a house fire is much different than the smell from a wood burner.  The smell from a house fire is much more acrid.  Bet you really wanted to know all of that, now, didn’t you?

Moving on.

As usually happens to me with smells or music, I was transported.  Not physically, but mentally, back to the mid-80’s.  Somewhere around ‘85.  I lived in a small town in Michigan called St. Helen.  Ok, so they actually spell it Saint Helen, but what the heck.  This is where Charleton Heston was born.  You know Charleton, he was the star in the movie “The Omega Man“.  This was the original version of “I am Legend” that stars Will Smith.  Who was not born in Saint Helen, Michigan.  Enough history and movie facts.

When you live in northern michigan you  usually have a wood burner.  And when it is cold outside you can smell the wood burning every where.  Strangely enough, it is to me a very comforting smell.  A smell reminiscent of a Thomas Kinkaide painting.  Brought back memories of driving through the snow going to friends house, seeing the snow on the ground, the lights in the windows of the houses, and smelling the wood smoke.

All from getting a whiff of wood smoke.

The mind is amazing.

Namaste.