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Sleeping with Bread -- Springy Short Stack
03/28/07

My Sleeping with Bread refused to be deep and thoughtful this week. I actually wrote it Monday afternoon at the cafe but between obsessing over my baby and being overwhelmed by the blogosphere ... well here we are ... again ... Wednesday.

Blessings:

Hints of Spring

More birds

Little gray squirrels

Deer visitations

New Friends

The New Computer arrived safe and sound! Happy Dance!

Missing:

Dogwood Trails

Bluebonnet Trails

Dallas Blooms

Ok All Texas Wildflowers!

Thunderstorms -- real ones that last hours

Hail Storms (some poor NYer traveling through Texas)

I'm giving tornadoes just a passing mention

Let's not forget Main Street Ft. Worth Arts Festival (which was completely obliterated one year by a sudden combo of the three items above)

And then there's Family

I started down that slippery slope of homesickness when I was reading my National Geographic Adventure Magazine and noticed an advertisement for TravelTex.com. They proudly proclaim:

Who am I to argue? So I checked them out. It's a fairly decent site actually. The screen saver download was disappointing since they don't use images that are actually large enough for my monitor.

But! I found out that I can control a camera in Texas from New York. It's rather fun. But be patient with it. The camera really does receive every request you make. Every left and right and every zoom. Alright, if you want to play with the camera, click to get in line. Literally. You're looking for a button that says "Get in Line."

Oh and you should also know that by mid-May, I know I'd be ready to come back to my "Southern Fringes of Upstate NY!" Or maybe somewhere even cooler. So obviously I just have a small case of Texas Spring Fever.

The Sleeping with Bread meme is propagated by Mary of Life, the Universe and Everything. It gives us a chance to stop and consider God's blessings and a chance to evaluate what is giving us pause or grief.

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Last comment made by Sarah O ~ 04/07/07

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Sophie 03/28/07

Wait a minute, do you mean to tell me that there are places that don't have long thunderstorms, hailstorms, or tornados? I'm just a naive southerner, I guess. :-)

~ Yes, Exactly. Thunder makes Oregonians quake. Seriously. (Part of the problem is that it's usually just one huge bang that sneaks up on ya.) They have no idea what a tornado is. Sometimes they see "hail" the size of baby green peas.

New Yorkers have thunderstorms that last eh an hour give or take. And I don't think the patch I'm in now knows what tornadoes are. Although about 40 miles south of here they did have a tornado last year. First in about ten years. I'm unfamiliar with the stats here re hail. I suspect that that hail stone looked huge to the New Yorker. But you and I know that, while it is respectable, they ain't seen nutt'n yet!

And my friend in Colorado is also missing the Texas thunderstorms.

They all think they have excitement in their lives. Oregon is suppose to some day be wiped out by tsunami or volcanoes or earthquakes. New York is suppose to be eliminated by a hurricane. And, Colorado? Eh maybe they're safe but you know Yellowstone is suppose to blow up any day now ... so maybe not.

Anyway ... Sophie, the next time you're in bed, listening to the fifth storm of the night roll through, watching the ceiling while expecting it to leave you at any moment, and wondering if you have enough strength left to care if a tornado is on it's way ... cause all you want is sleep ... just remember ... there are people in the world who have no idea how majestic thunderstorms can be. ~pam << didn't find all of this out until she was uh over 40

daughterv 03/29/07

Ok, chalk me up to another texan missing the thunderstorms! I'm pretty sure we're past the 1 thunder clap this year - storms seem to be larger in the fall. Now it's cool sunny weather with a drizzle every other day.

I'm surprised you can't find dogwoods somewhere near you! Have you asked around? What kind of flowers/trees does your area have?

I was talking to GrandmotherH aka your mama on her birthday and she was telling in wonderful glorious detail about whats blooming in her garden - she even has some roses all ready! The irises are up she says. Then of course the bluebonnets along the roads and highways. I love that the "wild flowers" of Dallas grow on the side of the highway, lol. Also, that she's been to the Arboretum for the Dallas Blooms.

Okay, okay, I'm also home(family)sick!

~ LOL, I got the same review only much shorter. NOTHING except the grass (well and the evergreens) is green up here yet but there's buds on a lot of the trees and so I'm thinking that just any day now that will all change. I'm ready! I'm hoping for some dogwoods. ~pam

Kim 03/29/07

Just popping in to say "Hi Pam!" I'm going to try to play catch up on your blog now! I just can't hit them all everyday...life gets so busy!

~ Wow! Do I ever hear you! But the funny thing is that just in the last few days I was thinking of you and wondering if I don't have you in my feed reader like I thought I did because I know I haven't been by your place lately. Anyway ... It's very good to see you and I'll probably get to go out visiting this afternoon, so look for me on your blog soon. ~pam

Sarah O 04/03/07

Ha ha! We had the third thunder storm in a week here tonight. We watched the sky turn blue gray and the trees turn techni-color green as we ate dinner. ON the downside we did have endure terrible humidity and 86 degrees all day to get to this point.

~ Sigh ... I am soo Looking forward to some really warm days ... I'm sure it will bring the humidity again but ... I'm sick of the 40's already and they're talking of snow for the weekend.

Nice to have your company! Love ya! (Psst Everybody! This is my other daughter.) ~me

Sarah O 04/07/07

God has a way of bringing me down a notch when I brag. Today the high is 39 and the wind chill makes it feel like it is around freezing!!! Stephen said they saw quite a few snow flurries near his work this morning. I don't ever remember an Easter this cold! I'm wearing fleece, long johns, and my heater is running every 25 minutes to keep my heavily shaded little place at 68 degrees. The dog is wearing his coat, snuggled in his bed under a blanket. The humor of it all! Oh well, we are going to grill out hamburgers tomorrow come snow or high water!

~ LOL there are going to be a lot of disappointed people tomorrow -- all those thin little frocks covered over by coats. And either the toes will have to freeze to wear those sandals or clunky shoes will spoil the effect. Usually the cold Easters are the ones that fall in March.

I'll let you in on a little secret. Aside from the fact that minutes ago we decided I'm still contagious and me showing up for Easter services would be no way to spread good will through a very small church ... I was suffering from green envy until you wrote ...

I wanted to wear my little white skirt and sleeveless sweater and sandals ... but I knew better than to even think that way for Easter here. So, I kind of sort of feel better hearing that Dallas is going to have to make sacrifices to the cold ... but I'd feel even better knowing it AND sitting smugly in church (which would probably curse me with 4 more weeks of winter so it's just as well that I'll be sitting at home).

I can just see Crockett all snuggled up in his bed. He's such a cute big baby. ~pam