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A Couple of Pictures, Not Much of a Post

Posted on October 12, 2022 by mohawkvalleygirl

Once again I have left it till too late in the evening to make a proper blog post. Oh, wait, it is Tired Tuesday! I am inadvertently appropriate. What is my excuse the rest of the time, you may ask. I will explain: shut up (with thanks to S. J. Perelman) (look him up) (or just wonder).

Where was I? Ah yes, tired Tuesday. My original plan was to go running and make a Running Commentary Post, using for illustration two pictures I took on Sunday’s cool down walk. I felt too tired to run (what a surprise) but managed a walk, thinking to make a Pedestrian Post . I took pictures on the walk and had some interesting narration in my head. But it is too long, which may be surprising for a 20 minute walk but not when you remember how much I like to talk.

I don’t know that I really captured the light.

I cut to the chase with the first picture from Sunday. I was struck by how the sun seemed to zero in on that one patch of color.

More than just a patch!

Walking up a dead end street, I found some more color. I spend a lot of time during the fall just staring at the trees knowing the beauty will not last.

I see professional and amateur photographers sharing their work on Facebook, and, yes, it is much better than mine. But I make bold to share my little contribution and hope you are all enjoying the season.

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Surely Everybody Loves Halloween

Posted on September 7, 2019 by mohawkvalleygirl

I do not want to get up early tomorrow and make a late post for today. Surely I can manage a Friday Lame Post (and I will call you Shirley if I want to).

My allergies have been kicking my butt this week. I can’t be too upset about that, though, because it means fall is coming. I love fall! After all, who needs to breathe? And the lightheadedness? I can handle that. Bring on the colored leaves, pumpkin spice coffee, and HALLOWEEN!

I guess they went on the South Beach Diet.

Here is a shot from Pumpkin Junction in Sauquoit, NY. I can’t wait to get back there again!

And here’s a friendly guy!

To continue the Halloween theme, here is an awesome decoration sent to me by my friend Marsha. At least, she sent me the pot. I added the orange stuff and vampire.

They look suspicious to me!

Here is a picture from a fall murder mystery, with a ghoulish theme. We are working on a new murder mystery (preview of coming attractions).

I guess all I am going to do today is post pictures and write a sentence or two about them. I find that appropriate for Lame Post Friday.

“Is this the blog post you wanted me for?”

I have not used a shot of Nosferatu in a while, have I? I do love to close with my favorite. Happy Friday, everyone.

Too Foggy to Focus

Posted on August 18, 2016 by mohawkvalleygirl

It’s not fall yet. We are just barely half way through August. Could somebody please explain to me, then, why my fall allergies have suddenly kicked in? On second thought, never mind. I don’t want to know why. I don’t care why. I’m just sorry that.

All this by way of introduction to, alas, another Wuss-out Wednesday. I’m sorry, but my brain is just too foggy to focus (Too Foggy to Focus might be a good title for this post). Could it be that my allergies are combining with menopausal brain freeze? I’m doomed!

The funny thing is, and I was talking about this earlier in a letter to my sister (ooh, must remember to mail that letter), when I first feel the twinges of sinus distress there is almost something exciting about it. Autumn has always been my favorite season. I enjoy the cooler weather, I drink in the colors of the changing leaves, and I adore Halloween. Additionally, fall has always felt like new beginnings to me.

This, of course, is a holdover from school years. Every September I looked forward to the new academic year. Because THIS year was going to be different. This year I was going to have my act together. I was not going to wait till the last minute to write papers and study. More importantly, I was going to wear the right clothes, say the right things, and have lots of friends. Maybe even… a BOYFRIEND. I don’t think I need to tell you that one of that ever happened. But I felt the possibilities, and it was usually a good couple of weeks before I realized I was the same geeky, awkward oddball that I have since learned to embrace.

But we’re not talking about me. Oh, wait a minute, we are. It is my blog. Brain fog, remember? “But we’re not talking about me,” is a phrase I sometimes use when I want to change the subject. I would change the subject now, but I am too foggy to think of one to change it to. Then again, I see I have blathered on for over 300 words. I’m going to go lay my spinny head down and wait for winter. Or at least for tomorrow’s blog post. Happy Wednesday, everyone.

But It’s Only the First Week of August!!!

Posted on August 7, 2015 by mohawkvalleygirl

Yes, it is a three exclamation point situation, and it is not a diatribe about back to school ads. My fall allergies have kicked in.

In past years, fall allergies have involved stuffy and/or runny nose, itchy eyes, sinus headache, you know, the usual stuff. I’ve taken the usual over the counter remedies with occasional forays into prescription territory. I’ve gone though whole boxes of tissues in a single afternoon. I’ve irrigated and neti-potted. I’ve drunk gallons of green tea with local honey (not all at once, like the tissues).

I confess, there has always been a stirring of joy with the first sinus twinge, because it means fall is here. I love fall. Well, my problems with my sinusy twinges this year are twofold.

To begin with: it’s not fall. Play all the back-to-school ads you want, lament that summer is half over, even start school if you are in one of those states, IT’S STILL NOT FALL YET! Even the unofficial start of fall (Labor Day) is a month away. Real fall is almost three weeks after that, and when (or if) we’ll get the pleasant fall weather is anybody’s guess.

The second fold of my problem is these are not the allergy problems I am used to. What I’m used to is getting the above listed, normal allergy symptoms. When the symptoms become too bothersome, I take something for it, which usually dopes me up. It becomes almost a mathematical problem: how much allergy discomfort makes it worth the discomfort of being horribly lightheaded? Sometimes the answer changes. It adds a little interest to my day.

Well, it seems now the main symptom is to be horribly lightheaded. What the hell, body?

Someone will argue (and you know who you are) that it is really a time, money, and mathematical equation saver. After all, I’m skipping right over the usual symptoms and going right to the lightheaded part. I suppose, too, I could be pleased that my body decides to switch things up now that I’m into my 50s. After all, it proves that you can so teach an old dog new tricks.

In any case, I’m feeling too lightheaded to write a real blog post, and I thought this would make a decent Non-Sequitur Thursday post. Fall allergies when it isn’t really fall. Having the last step first in the allergy discomfort equation. Sounds pretty non-sequential to me. Then again, I am lightheaded. Hope you’re all having a lovely Thursday.

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Rocking the Tired Tuesday Run

Posted on November 12, 2014 by mohawkvalleygirl

Note to self: When you run on a Tuesday, so you can write about the run and not have another Tired Tuesday post, write the blog post as soon as you are done running. If you wait you may become too tired.

Well, never mind how tired I think I am. I ran and I am going to write a blog post about it. I ran Saturday but not Sunday. I had thought to run Monday but took my dog, Tabby, for a long walk instead. I know I won’t run Wednesday, because we are doing laundry (may write a blog post about that). So I thought walk Monday, run Tuesday (for anyone concerned about my getting enough exercise, Steven, Tabby and I all took a nice walk on Sunday) (for anyone concerned Tabby misses her walk when I run, she always walks my cool-down with me. A shorter walk, perhaps, but she seems OK with it).

Be all that as it may, today was an unseasonably warm day: in the 60s. I reminded myself all day that I intended to run, just to get in the proper mindset. I changed into running clothes right away when I got home. Bicycle shorts and a t-shirt. Woo hoo! That is my favorite running outfit. I took off.

I ran up to German Street and turned right, so the sun was behind me. My shadow in front of me looked tall and slender. Look at those long legs! In reality, my legs are short, even for someone of my meager height. They are fairly shapely for all that, if I do say so (and why not say so? I have low enough self esteem; let me give myself a compliment once in a while). As I continue into middle-age, my legs are perhaps a trifle less shapely than when I was in my 20s, but running will no doubt help. You go, girl, I told myself.

Only I wasn’t going very fast. My best runs are certainly not the ones I take after working a full day. At least it wasn’t a 10 hour day, although I used to run after those, too. Back in the days when I was getting the sweet overtime (NOT complaining; I’m happy to still have a job. Also, it’s easier to work for eight hours than for ten) (just saying).

So I shuffled along, trying not to feel too self-conscious. I mean, I really felt that I must look pathetic. Then again, somebody pathetic who just keeps going is to be admired. And there is every chance she will look less pathetic as time goes on.

I cheered myself up by looking at people’s fall decorations. Lots of scarecrows, mostly with friendly smiles. One had a pumpkin head and an especially toothy grin. I do love fall. There are still colored leaves on some trees. I saw one large yellow tree that was still full. Later I saw three smaller bright yellow trees with two completely bare trees in front of them. I like the look of bare trees too. I am quite the tree lover.

As I kept running (I realize that is a generous term for what I was doing), it did not get any easier, but it did not get substantially harder either. I ran for 25 minutes, matching my previous few runs. As Tabby walked my cool-down with me, I felt happy that I had run. For a middle-aged shuffle on a Tired Tuesday, it was not too bad of a run. I did not feel at the time that I was rocking it, but I realize in retrospect that I was.

Mohawk Valley Girl