It is a beautiful day today. Sunshine pouring down from the clear blue and the temperature outside is 60F. In this bipolar winter we have going on here, this is a wonderful respite. The next few days are predicted to run between 60's to 70's before we dip back down to the 40's and maybe lower by the end of the week. Crazy rollercoaster for here.
The weather doesn't usually buck around like this. It pops down for a day, maybe two, and then it's temperate again. Not this year. All the hard freezes we haven't seen in years seem to have ganged up on us this last month. All the tropical vegetation - delicate palms, giant massive-fronded bananna plants, all the unhardy greenery that usually trives here, anything too big to protect from the series of frozen nights and days - all brown and dead. You see people all over the area out today, debriding their yards and gardens of years of emerald lushness turned to debris, hacking and raking and bagging and putting it all to the curb, working in the lovely ironic warmth.
I have been what I consider to be uncharacteristically good today. I was up before dawn, a weekday habit that sometimes intrudes into the weekend. I did two loads of laundry. I tended to the cats' garden of defecatory delights. I fixed the smoke alarm that's been hanging by its wires since I knocked it off the ceiling last week (as punishment for the crime of crying wolf one too many times). I got my rump up and out of the house. I did something slightly social. (I have to work so much harder on that. Being as asocial as I am is unhealthy and I know it.) I got in some serious exercise despite the less than exertion-compatible backbrace and my slothlike enthusiam for wasting energy.
Hmmph.
I started this entry thinking I might have something to say, but I kinda don't. Just a snapshot of the day and a list of the to do's I've done.
Whatever. I'll be interesting tomorrow.
Maybe.
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