Winter...Phyllis

Summer is over and it’s time to close up the house. There are still a few warm days left, but soon there will be icy drives home at midnight, snow to scrape from the car before work, alternating snow and mud in the backyard and drying clothes in the dryer instead of on the line in the backyard. It usually means the cats are stuck in my workroom, unable to go in and out the open window as they please through the winter months.


We can’t do anything about the snow but today, Sue and I installed a pet door in my workroom window so the cats can still go in and out when the window is closed. This should make for a much easier winter for them and for me. Muffin took to it right away and has been using it all day. The others are still a bit timid. If they could talk, would they thank us for making their little lives a little more pleasant? Yes, I think they would.

Sue has made the living room look like new with the steam cleaner and some elbow grease. She washed the walls and ceiling, the blinds and everything else that she could put steam to. She even made a new Autumn flower arrangement that looks great with the new lamp she bought yesterday. I slept through all that.

There is one advantage to the winter months. They don’t sweep the street from November thru April, so we don’t risk getting parking tickets when we forget to park on the other side of the street on the 4th Wednesday of those months. I’m thinking hard for more advantages, but none are coming to mind. Living is so easy when it’s warm outside and a little more difficult when it’s cold.

I finally received my first issue of Now Playing, TCM’s monthly program guide with interesting articles, rare photos and a challenging crossword puzzle. It’s all it promised to be. So I will be going through it with my yellow highlighter soon so I don’t miss anything. Although, I’ll highlight things and then not really watch them. I rarely sit down in front of the TV and actually watch anything.

This isn’t very funny and not at all interesting.