Sitting here in the TV room watching Morning Joe and Imus alternatively, reminding me of the old days in Hudson, as we used to sit in our living room each morning before work, watching Imus, looking at a TV, a wall, a room, a house out the window, no view so to speak. How different from my mornings here, as I watch the sun rise out the window, the lake change colors, the birds hit the feeder, the wind blow, all things natural and changing. I actually cannot wait to get to sleep, so I can get up in the morning and watch night become dawn become day. So here I sit, enclosed by walls, a view of a house, watching the pundits argue about policies, the same tune every day, the same voices, and nothing changes or so it seems. I am increasingly turning off the news, paying less attention to it, listening less to NPR or MSNBC, reading less of the New York Times or Wall Street Journal, and enjoying reading fiction and non fiction more. As Evelyn Waugh said along time ago, newspapers end up telling you the same thing day after day, with just enough change to keep you reading. The same for the opinion programs on TV...very little is new, very little changes from day to day.
On another note, we went to Ron and Linda's last night for a dinner of filets, mushrooms with bacon, and salad, a real treat. After a day of painting, it was great to not have to make dinner and be taken care of by someone else. They are too nice to us. They head back to Murraysville today for a month, so we won't see them till the second week in May. We lent them our copy of the film MOSTLY MARTHA, and they loved it just as much as we did.
Today's gray and a bit cooler, with the possibility of rain or snow showers tonight. In yesterday's paper, they talked about 13 inches of snow on April 18th a number of years ago, so we are not yet out of the 'possibility' of a winter storm in April, though Sunday's 70's suggested otherwise.
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