On the 14th we had an inch of new snow to which was added some light rain, just enough to make a mess of slush.
On the 15th it began snowing again.
Light snow yesterday with fog following. Just enough to leave a thin ice on the Village streets.
The Old Farmer’s Almanac says “Fog in January brings a wet spring.”
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I watched a PBS presentation which was part of the “Secrets of the Dead” . It was about the history of Stonehenge.
It has been nearly 20 years since I went with some friends to visit Stonehenge and had an unusual experience.
As I was walking around the site I suddenly felt that the Henge was much smaller than I had expected. Then I realized that it wasn’t smaller but that I was too much bigger.
I started to cry and had to leave the area where I sat on a curb in the parking area, crying, until the others began arriving back to the meeting place.
The PBS article was about the wondrous amount of past history which has been discovered in the intervening years and that the history of Stonehenge begins so much earlier than anyone had even imagined. The history has been traced back to the Neolithic Age around 3,000 years BCE where the small blue stones, which are part of the Stonehenge tourist site and which had been unexplained until Archaeological digs in both Preseli Hills in Wales and Wiltshire in the UK learned much about the circle of the smaller blue stones around the larger more well-known circle.
I had not noticed the smaller blue stones when I was there, but maybe the strange feeling I had felt was a reaction to their presence.
A phrase used by the title character in the play Hamlet, by William Shakespeare, in which Hamlet suggests that human knowledge is not limited when he says “There are more things in heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”
Want to know more?
Watching and reading these sources of previously unknown information may have provided an explanation for the experience I had those many years ago.
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Still haven’t made a walkabout in several days.
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Sunday the 15th I accidentally watched “Sunday on CBS” and was blown away. Three stories caught my attention.
- A 5th grade class of children in a Minnesota School felt it wasn’t right that three of their classmates in wheelchairs were not able to join them on the playground at recess. They talked about it with their teacher and asked why there was no part of the playground where their friends could play. Their teacher said probably because it would cost too much. They asked how much and the answer was about $300,000.00. The response to that information took many fundraisers but the children raised more than their goal with money to spare and as a result not only their school now has the requested playground but the fundraising has spread and there will be other schools revamping their playgrounds.
- A social group of five older women who liked football (American not British “football”), especially Tom Brady. There are now only two of the original five left but a film titled “80 for Brady” has been made about them with a cast which will amaze you and is due to be released February 3rd.
- A tale about a husband and wife who ran away from slavery before the Civil War, and how they managed to make it (the fair complexioned wife posed as a Master with her dark skinned husband as the slave) to non-slavery New England without being caught and returned to their master.
Two of these made me cry and one made me laugh out loud.
You can see them all on the CBS Sunday Morning web site at …
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/this-week-on-sunday-morning-january-15-2023/
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Now that I’ve already sent you on a chase around the net, two items I found there reminded me of a song which said “Everything old is new again…”
Night Court is coming back on NBC with a new Judge Stone and Netflix is updating the family sitcom from the 50s Show to the 70s Show.
I’ll watch the first couple of episodes of each to see how they do.
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The small birds which had been checking my front porch for a bird seed feeder still haven’t been back since the feeder was filled and hung out and the series of storms started coming through.
I’ll keep watching to see how long they stay away.
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Britain retired the RED telephone boxes in 1985 but don’t fret. The blue Tardis isn’t going away anytime soon.
I have three favourite Doctors … Christopher Eccleston, David Tennant, and Matt Smith.
How about you?
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The BIG box I received yesterday contained ONE towel rack for the bathroom and a lot of packing bubbles!
Go figure.
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And to end the week…
Don’t wait for things to get simpler, easier, better. Life will always be complicated.
So ‘til next wednesday …