The birds are singing, the sun is shining, and the wind is blowing again out there. Seems like that is the way of things around here more often than not!
As I often repeat, we live in windy Little Chicago, even if we are really out here in the country between Clare and Rosebush.
May flower time is here and believe me they are blooming all over the area, and pollen is flying through the air. Jack has been trying to get some outdoor chores done, but he is back inside. I can hear him hacking and coughing, so guess the outdoor chores will have to wait a bit.
Me, not so much coughing, but then I haven’t even stuck my head out the door so far today (Wednesday) although I would love to get out in the fresh (pollen laden) air even if it is 69 degrees (68° with the wind) and sit in the sunshine (probably in my sweatshirt) for a while.
I really would like to plant some flowers, but Jack says it is too early yet and we could get another frost at anytime…
Traditionally we usually wait until Memorial Weekend (or at least Mother’s Day) to put plants in, but I am getting anxious.
I used to get my flower “fix” by just looking out the front windows at the massive white blooms on the flowering crab tree. We had three – one white, one red, and one with pink blooms. Not so anymore, all the front yard trees at the old place have all been cut down. We have planted some new ones here, but it will be a few years before they beautify the yard. See the attached picture…
Today, tomorrow, and the rest of the week, it is supposed to be in the 70s…hard to believe, but that is what the weather lady said this morning on News 9 & 10.
That is our favorite station, although we have to get it via internet and it only comes in for a short time in the morning. The rest of the time we watch channel 5 (WNEM) or 12 (Flint area), but the Bay City channel is the only one that covers this area (sort of) well.
Channel 5 and Channel 9 (now 9&10) were the first channels I ever saw, and the only ones available when I was growing up just northeast of Roscommon in the 50s and very early 60s. We had a little black and white TV and an antenna with a rotary motor on top of it so we could aim the “arms” and get the best signal. At first, of course, we had “rabbit ears” with tinfoil on them, but we soon graduated to an antenna on the roof since we couldn’t get much reception any other way.
I remember when my brother Don brought our first one (TV) home. He set it on the couch, plugged it in and turned it on. What I saw (I was about 11 at the time) was snow, but it was still fascinating.
Soon that little TV was our evening entertainment.
Shows I remember? Gunsmoke, Bonanza, Wagon Train, Have Gun Will Travel, Walt Disney, Red Skelton, Alfred Hitchcock, The Twilight Zone, I love Lucy, Perry Mason and so many more. My Dad favored the westerns, so we watched a lot of them. My favorite? Leave it to Beaver. As a young teen I had a real crush on Ricky Nelson in that series. Movies too. There was always one on late at night. My favorite was Tarzan! I loved Johnny Weissmuller in that part.
Now that we are mostly retired around the Maurer household, we have been watching some of those old favorites again on “TV Land”. I still like them, sometimes better than today’s shows…
