Something positive

In looking at the things I write about here, I realize that most of them are negative.  There are rants about politics, complaints about aging, and grief notes.  So, I am determined to find something positive to write about today.

This might be harder than I thought.

Okay. Here goes.

The weekend is almost here, and we are supposed to have beautiful weather.  I hope to be able to get outside and get some flowers in the garden, and maybe even get a small vegetable garden started.  I love flowers, lots of them. I have a small pond in the back yard with a little fountain spray, and a bench near it.  We live in a wooded area on a river.  The birds have come back, my feeders are busy every day.  We haven’t seen deer in a few weeks, but I know that they are around.  If it is nice enough, we will try to get out to sit alongside, or even in, the river shallows, and relax.  That is a very pleasant way to spend an afternoon.

Next week looks rather quiet for me at work, and my husband is starting to take some extra days off so that he won’t lose his vacation time.  We are hoping to do something at least one day that will be an enjoyable change of pace.  We may try to get to a state park, or maybe even a movie.  Even though we don’t have kids in the house any more, we need to work on spending quality time with each other.

In almost exactly a month, we will be traveling to Oregon.  This is a trip that I have  been looking forward to for several months.  I would like to get to the sea lion caves, Mt. Hood, and maybe Crater Lake.  It will make for a very busy time, as we also will be attending a graduation ceremony for our daughter and have other relatives to visit in Portland.  I may need to come home to recover from the vacation.  I am hearing that the weather may be unpredictable, but I think we could still enjoy most of those sights even in a drizzle.  It would be better, of course, if we had sunshine.  I’m keeping my fingers crossed.

Hmmmm more positive things……….

My mom will be joining us at the graduation in June.  I am looking forward to seeing her, and I think that she really needs to get away.  We are hoping that a friend of hers from California will also join us.  My brother, who doesn’t do a lot of traveling (he is still single at 45 and doesn’t enjoy traveling alone, I guess)will also be there as the assistant for my mom.  It will be nice to have so many of us together for a trip.

Just a few years ago, we had 14 of us traveling together in Ireland, and 8 of us on side trips to England, France, Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland.  We had a great time-exhausting, but a trip of a lifetime.  We are used to traveling in large groups.  We are tall and large people.  We make quite a sight when all of us come into a restaurant or tourist sight together!  It is funny to see people’s reaction.  Often, they look at us from the head down, looking to see if we are wearing high heels or something.  Nope. My brother-6’7″, my mom-6″2″, my son-6″4″, my daughter and I, both 6″, my husband-well, he is a shorty-about 5″9″.  Yup, shorter than me. That way, he has to look up at me…..at all of us!

Okay, that wasn’t so hard after all!

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