2022 Happy To Be Here

So many things are green in Texas. It is Texas wildflower month. That means there are shades of blues and reds and purples and whites and oranges and yellows.  They plant the wildflowers along the highways.  Things aren't yet as green in New England. TF even has roses blooming at her house.  It was a day filled with happy things. Today we climbed Enchanted Rock near Fredericksburg, TX. The rock is pink granite. I live in the Granite State . I'm not going to say there isn't any pink granite in New Hampshire (I don’t know), but it is Concord Gray Granite that the state is famous for. There is yellow granite on the property at home. There is a wide variety of granite that I wasn't aware of until today. At the bottom of Enchanted Rock, it was hot. The temperature was in the mid 80's and this girl from the north had a hard time climbing because of the heat. The higher we climbed the stronger the wind blew. There were a few times that I thought the wind migh...

For a little while at work this morning I did something they call push. It is basically trying to do the initial sort. Packages come into the building, get a sticker for sorting, and head down the conveyor. Sometimes they come through nicely spaced to make it easier to sort which conveyor it goes down next. Other times the packages become bunched together and are harder to sort.   All the time they come fast. For a while this was a fun rush as the packages came towards me.  Quick, quick!  Where does it go?  Other happy things from today: On the way to the airport Keziah and I saw a car with two huskies riding in the back. There was one with their head out of each of the back windows. It was the cutest thing.  It reminded me of a story concerning my dad and his twin brother.  They used to go camping together and owned similar station wagons back in the 1960's.  They pulled up on either side of a gas pump and got out at the same time, pumped...