Good morning! Yes, I am alive and well, and it is good to be back to the sunporch. I have had several questions about my blog in the recent days; “where can I find it”, “are you still writing it”, “how come I can’t find it anymore” — that kind of thing. The truth is that I just had to step away from it because I was finding it very mundane and boring. It seemed that nothing I was writing was of any value to anyone and therefore a waste of people’s time. But — I also found that I missed writing it. So, I’m giving it another go. I promise nothing with it, except to write whatever falls out of my brain, which may or may not be of interest to anyone, including me. 

To say I’m back to the sunporch is a bit of a mis-direction. It’s still too cool to sit out there very much. The sunporch is not heated nor cooled and Ms. Kate doesn’t like for me to leave the doors open and let the ambient air and temperature from out there into the house where she happens to be sitting, already with her lap blanket on. But, the sunporch is the best place to sit and watch my birds and I miss doing that. I’m still feeding them and will occasionally throw on a sweatshirt and grab a lap-robe and go watch them. I find sitting there watching them to be very calming and gives me a direct contact opportunity with the great Creator and Sustainer of our universe. I figure if God cares so much about them I’m in good company. 

And here we are in the year 2023. This year I will turn 79, and I am in awe of that. Not only will I turn 79, but all things considered, I’m in great shape with no reasons at all to think that I don’t have a lot of years left in this life. True enough, I suffer from the routine things that most people go through as they advance in age. I’m slower than I want to be and I’m physically weaker than I used to be. But your see, I know know who is to blame for all of that too. I’ve gotten lazy and have reduced my activity level exponentially. When you do that, you cause your own demise and it is hard, or maybe even impossible to get back to levels that you once had. What am I going to do about it? —— most likely not a dang thing. I’m loving my simple sedentary life. I will keep doing stuff to keep the joints moving. But, I’m having problems with my sciatic nerve in my lower back and it probably is a result of residue from my fall down my basement steps back in 2019. I had a compression fracture my my L2,L3 at that time and was told that it would give me grief later in life. So, now when I have a flare up, (which seems to be more frequent) I grab my cane to get around and call my doctor who either will prescribe some prednisone tablets for a week or have me come in and give me a shot in the hip. I hate those because they hurt and raise a knot on my butt. 

I’m still working, and I’m still enjoying it. I’ll be talking more about that as we begin our daily chats once again. In the meantime, it is good to be back with you. I hope each of you have had a wonderful and blessed Christmas holiday season and that each and everyone of you will have a gloriously blessed 2023. 

Until next time.