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Solstice. Do you know what the solstice is? Did you know there are two? Does anybody (other than astrophysicists) know what the solstice is? I didn’t. I’ve heard about it all of my life. Yes, I know, winter solstice is the shortest day of our year. December 21 or 22 of each year. Well, that is if we live in the Northern Hemisphere. In the Southern Hemisphere, your shortest day is in June 20 or 21. It means – winter is here!

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Once again, we have reached that day in the calendar when we celebrate Thanksgiving. Thomas Jefferson thought that the holiday that was first held in 1621 as a three-day harvest feast should not be declared a national holiday by the federal government – separation of church and state was his reason. It was okay for each state to have such a festival; just not the federal folks.

When I was a teacher at a nationally recognized hospital for patients with respiratory disease, we had an incredibly creative music teacher. One year, she decided that the entire hospital should celebrate Thanksgiving – patients and staff joining together for the event. At that time, the patients – children and adults lived for months at the hospital. There was no going home for the holidays.

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Several days ago, my eldest granddaughter celebrated her birthday. She is in her first year of graduate school in another country. Her goal is to be an astrophysicist and teach at the University level. Here is her birthday letter – by e-mail, of course.

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It is not a secret that I talk. To relatives. To friends. To strangers and to the dogs that visit me when their moms and dads leave town. And, I talk to myself. Do you? Talk to yourself?

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Daughter #1 planned an early Christmas present for both of us. Because Grand #1 is going to school in Germany and her family will travel there for this Christmas, Daughter #1 and I will have our Christmas without them.

She has never taken the Durango Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad trip. I took that train long ago with Larry and his parents. In the southwest part of my state, taking the train requires careful planning, a day by car each way, and overnight stays. Daughter #1 did a good job with the planning. As I said, we decided that this trip would be our Christmas present to ourselves.

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Some People Are Only Happy If They Are Unhappy

My dear friend voted for Trump; he’s an old farm boy and now he is unhappy with his choice. I have an e-mail friend in another state, who is not happy unless she’s got three dozen doctors to see.

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Be prepared for a rant!

Being a very old person, I do spend quite a bit of time watching television. It’s not that I have nothing else to do. The sound of the TV makes a good “white noise” that, honestly, helps me concentrate while creating on my computer. So, of course, since Hallmark is one of the channels that I “watch” most, I watch some of the programming over … and over … and …After watching the same movie or program over and over, it is easy to see the errors in that movie or program.

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I wrote to my blog computer man with this question. I’m really puzzled about it.

I have a question about where the blog is posted.
I, in error, posted today’s blog to be sent at 10 pm, rather than the 10 am, that I usually post.

It just dropped into my e-mail at about 4:30 pm. So, I decided to find out where the heck it is 10 pm in the world right now.

I looked at the world map of time and found this:

Reykjavik was listed as 10:35 pm
Azores was listed as 10:36 pm
Nowakchott (whereever that is) was listed as – I can’t remember and can’t find it on the map, again. But the time was about the same.

So, my question: where do these posts get posted from. A couple of the time locations were in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.

Where? Does some foreign company / city get our posts and send them out? Who is really handling this work? It was like this with the last company, as well. I’d post for 10 am, and I know that when it was posted somewhere where it was 10 am sooner than here. Interesting??

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Anniversaries come and go. October 3 would have been my sixty-eighth wedding anniversary. We all miss Larry – the hurt remains. It only diminishes a little over the years. We no longer think about Larry every day, but often. Sixty years is a long time to live with someone through “thick and thin.”

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The Cloud was pink the day the convention was held. After all, most in attendance were female. Yes, there were some male voices, too. But, they were few and far between.

Echo claimed the podium; after all, he said, “I can see all of you as well as my people. My people are posh – you know, fur coats and such.”

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