I was in the air last night fro the super bowl.. Ok.. i’m not a football fan.. but it do like those commercials.. And I have a guilty pleasure attitude towards lady gaga.. .. and I wanted her to say something political.. did she ?!?!
All that said, I was deeply happy when I heard that the Patriot won last night . Not because of my new england roots. .but because of something that happened in 1967 when My mom was bedridden during her difficult pregnancy with my beautiful sister SPG ! .. Mom was forced to lay in bed for the last 3 months of her pregnancy .. THat meant she could not chase after me and my brother ages 8 and 7. At the time my dad was workig for the football club the Houston Oilers.. One of their Linbackers, John Meyers, either liked us alot.. or h needed some extra money so he became our ‘Nanny’.. John was huge.. well over 220 pounds and 6 feet tall.. he had cool black rimmed glasses.. and was so nice.. He drove us around, fed us.. and di that sort of thing until my sister was born in april 1967.. Form that time on he was ‘nanny’ to us. Eventually Nanny moved away o play linebacker for the NE Patriots.. from that he went on to play for buffalo and eventually the patriots.. and then the packers…
On my way to Munich again.. reading a great book by one of my favoorite authors, Michal Carbon.. the book is called Moonglow.. and i’m finding that I like it more, the deeper I get in it. It was a bit of slow start for me.. especailly as I tend to read about 2 pages before falling asleep..
I wont give any spoilers here.. but it’s a story that evolves from fiction to fact without ever acknowledging it’s doing so.. In doing that.. it has triggered many memories I have of grwoign up in the space craze of the 60’s and 70’s .. it mixes in quite a bit of the zany neuroses of grwoign up with liberal jewish parnts.. and a little bit of magical realism.. I think.. or maybe just elements of a charmed life.
Their aren’t many characters. but I still get them confused.. they have complicated histories.. they are good people doing not always good things… trying to get by.
I only have a few more pages till its over.. and dont want it to end..
The ground is covered with a few inches of snow like it should be this time of year .. but we haven’t had any big storms or deep cold . It’s the second year in a row with basically no winter . That’s weird for us . Winter is basically why people like us love Vermont . It’s the time to climb around Jin the woods of crampons, skis or snowshoes and pull ice Lea from your beard . It basically the reason we have beards !
In finding it hard not to have a real winter . I’m still running rather than snowshoeing. So today we decided to go look for winter
We headed to camels hump Nordic ski area which is about 8 miles behind us in Huntington to see if we could find winter
It was there . The trail system there is about 1000 feet up … about 700 feet higher than us .. and that made all the difference . Where we had 3 inches of snow .. they had 6 . That was just enough to pretend it was winter . We were able to cover about 5 miles on skis without once seeing bare ground . That’s good enough to pretend it’s winter .. and that’s all I need !
remember yesterday I said that someone had tried to get one of my credit cards reissued to him.. He even called the bank and requested it.. well today.. the same someone (i hope) tried to open 4 credit cards in my name. Luckily I am strong in the defense against dark arts. I was able to detect the new accounts because they had to pull credit reports on me and I have an alert… but I had ot call 4 different credit card companies and hut the other bastard down.. it felt so … so.. so.. gross.. kind fun though..
I’m trying to think of soem sort of wierd counter spell to conjour up.. any ideas out tehre ?
