61 degrees this morning, felt colder, probably due to wind and cloud cover. The roofers are already working on the house next door. Almost every house in our subdivision has had a new roof except ours. Not quite sure how our roof escaped the storm, although it probably is the right people haven't checked it out!
Last full day of Fall 2013. I have to admit, I am ready for 2014, and even Winter to begin, since it means the Spring and Summer is only closer. I will see some major changes in my life in 2014 (or that itself will be a major change!). The shortest day of the year tomorrow (I believe Winter actually starts at 5:06 p.m. or something like that, but as far as I'm concerned, it is the first day of Winter.
Didn't bicycle this morning, just too windy and I was concerned abut it raining.
In the late 80's, I started collecting ti-shirts (either "event" t-shirts or promotional t-shirts, with the thought then I walked and exercised I would wear them. I probably have over 300 such t-shirts now (sometime I will have to count them), including he ones I put away as way too big, although I like large t-shirts.
Of course, now I wear only "athletic", "wicking" special t-shirts/jerseys etc. when I exercise! Which means I have all the t-shirts for daily wear, so I have a lot t-shirts that never see the light of day. Like my books, I have an extremely hard time "weeding" my t shirts, especially the "event" t-shirts and even the promotional t-shirts to a degree. I like the idea of giving them to someone who can and will use them (the t shirts) and read the books!
Now that I have time (or at least expect to have time, it hasn't happened yet), to read all of those books "when I get time", I will see which ones I actually need to keep!
When I was about in the third grade, I was bored to death (no TV, computers etc) and I started reading my brothers and sisters high school literature books. I started collecting them years ago and finally have all of them I believe. I still have a lot of nostolgia about them. "Alas Babylon", I didn't understand until I read it years later and I was scared every time I read "The Tale-Tell Heart" and "The Hitchhiker" etc. I am amazed at how the meaning of the stories changed as I aged and I looked at them from a different perspective of both age and experience. For the most part, I think I did understand "The Most Dangerous Game", "To Build a Fire", "Our Town", "The Road Not Taken" etc. I wonder how they shaped my life and thinking.
The last day of Fall 2013 "and how the time does pass".
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