Good and hot

Today has been both good and hot. It has been a really good day - but then I guess everyday we have should be viewed as a good day one way or another. It is just that some days you have to look a little harder to find the good. Today it was right there in black and white.

It has also been hot. Fabulously hot. Now I am a winter girl. I like the cold frosty weather but it has been so chilled and dank and dreary I am really loving the sun and the heat at the moment. Long may that continue.

My photo of the day is my car display when I set off home tonight.

29 degrees. WOW - awesome.

My feet, however, haven't cottoned on to summer yet and I now have a splendid collection of blisters where my namby pamby winter feet, used to have=ing socks or tights on, have softened up over the winter and the first rub of a shoe blisters them. It's quite funny really. I had a rub on the top of my toe when I came home. It was a blister that broke pretty much instantly. Last night we went for a wlk and I didn't want it to rub so I put a plaster on it.

The plaster rubbed undeneath qorse than the top was to begin with so now the middle toe on one foot has a raw patch on the top and the bottom. And I have a new one on the other foot tonight.  No doubt they will harden up soon!

I also had a drama today on the way to work as I had another massive nose bleed - this time a real gusher and I was driving so it was all very dramatic. I wish I knew what was causing them as I could perhaps be a little prepared.

I have a page to share today which is another made with one of the Pickleberrypop Pickle Barrel sets, this time one from Dee Bee Creations

 

The photo is of us at Pamphill in the Bluebell woods.

Today I am thankful for

• kindness
• recognition
• praise
• warmth

 

“There are two kinds of people,” a friend of mine told me a few years ago as I was approaching my 40th birthday. “People under the age of 40 and people over it.”

After 40 arrived, I couldn’t help but notice that the age really was the milestone it’s always made out to be. Almost as if on cue, my knees started bothering me if I jogged for too long, and my hair, graying around the temples for some time, started changing color a little faster. Long taken largely for granted, my body was beginning to assert itself as what, in truth, it always had been: a fragile and temperamental piece of machinery destined ultimately to break down.

This year, I turn 45. Over the past couple of years, as I’ve gotten used to being a member of the second of those two kinds of people, I’ve started to notice that people over 40 can also be divided into two general classes: There are those who are clearly worried about age and all it brings with it, and those who, though perhaps not delighted with the gradual failings of the body, aren’t undone by them, either. With faith, with the belief that life’s end is not really an end at all but only the beginning of another infinitely larger life as yet unknown, gray hair and achy knees are not weighty and terrible events, but markers on a journey far from over—indeed, hardly begun.

Lord, keep me ever mindful of the larger life that lies beyond this one.

 

Comments

[Sandi]

I used to have nosebleeds as a child. The doctor cauteurized the weak spot inside my nose and that helped. When I was at an interview in my 20's, I got one and had to dash for the restroom. Supposedly it was related to stress. I got the job! Hope you find out the cause....

[Barb in AK]

Wow! That's almost 85°F!!! It is humid where you are? Generally the heat feels so good here, but then the humidity settles in and it becomes very uncomfortable.
Your nosebleeds don't come at convenient times, do they! I wonder if it has anything to do with your blood pressure? I'm sure your doctor has helped get that under control.
Do take care.