THE DAY AFTER

 

This will undoubtedly be posted after midnight, so it will officially be the day after Thanksgiving. 

I initially wanted to write about the horrible thing that happened to me on my trip to town last Tuesday, but I'll save it for my next post.
It will give you something to look forward to.

Thanksgiving is over already?? Heck, I still have two pumpkins left from Halloween. Time is rudely eluding me and I don't like it.

My Turkey Day was completely mundane and embarrassingly boring. As much as I love turkey (I could eat it every day) I decided to buy a ham instead (it's easier to prepare). Then I suddenly realized that I had a roasted chicken in the fridge, so I decided to eat that instead. With stuffing, asparagus, and cranberries.

Since I'm here all alone, it doesn't matter what I eat - - or when. I'll have the ham this weekend. It'll last a long time. 

Lately I've been obsessed with eating apples accompanied by peanut butter and caramel topping (the kind of topping you put on ice cream). And the peanut butter has to be crunchy. 

Thanksgiving Day was sunny and fairly mild - but strangely hazy and rather surrealistic. And there was ample gunfire from the hunters. I thought they might take off a day for Thanksgiving. Hell, they must already have their turkeys.... 

Snow (yes, snow) is predicted for Monday night, but I'll believe it when I see it. The snow predictions around here are not always accurate.

The photos I took on Thanksgiving are far from good, but I'll inflict you with a few anyway. 

 

My ham
(I knew this would enthrall you)

 

My festive red dinnerware

(red isn't my favorite color but I thought I'd be deliciously daring)

 

A glimpse of the back "yard"

Now that the trees are bare, I can see the neighboring "mountain" from my bedroom window

Bosco savoring the view

It starts getting dark at around 4:30 now

Blogger has been making it difficult for me to center my text.
Also, it's still impossible for me to leave comments on blogs that have settings for comments to appear on popup windows.
I haven't been able to alleviate the "glitch".

 

 

THE DAY AFTER

It's the day after Thanksgiving.
I just realized that I've been living in this abode in the wilderness for four years now. I moved in on Thanksgiving Day in 2014.

I moved to Tennessee in October, 2014 and stayed with my cousin until I found a suitable place to buy.
The price was right and it was located far away from annoying humanity, so it was suitable.

All of my possessions were in storage in Texas. After I moved in to the aforementioned abode, the movers informed me that - because of the upcoming holidays - they wouldn't be able to deliver my stuff until mid-January, at the earliest.

So, for over two months I lived in a completely empty house - no furniture, no clothing except for what I brought in a suitcase. I had a folding metal chair and a tiny table. I slept on an incredibly scuzzy, ancient reclining chair that the previous owners had left behind.

When the movers finally hauled my possessions to Tennessee in late January, 2015, I was horrified to discover that they "lost" an enormous amount of my things (for which I have never been reimbursed) - including furniture, antique books, art, rugs, kitchen items, lamps, and a large chest containing tools.

They also "lost" all of my diaries and journals - which I had meticulously kept for 40 years (since I was 10)
AND all of my mother's vast collection of piano music. The journals and music were my most treasured possessions and meant more to me than life itself -  without them my soul has died.

Fortunately they didn't "lose" my two pianos, but I haven't touched the pianos since I moved here. I no longer give a shit. The piano - and my former life as a musician - is now gone.

It wasn't my initial purpose to write a depressing post, but I'm simply remembering all these things.....
with extreme bitterness.

My simple Thanksgiving meal yesterday (roasted chicken) turned out to be fantastic! I didn't put any effort into it and wasn't expecting much, but it was absolutely delicious. And I had enough left over to eat again today.

I just finished having a cup of cappuccino and a piece of cake.

Yesterday was gorgeous with golden sunshine. Today is very dark, dreary, and misty. The photo at the top of this post is of the sun this morning - valiantly making an effort to appear - but it was soon shrouded in mists and  finally extinguished by clouds.

Did anyone see the full moon last night?
It was brilliantly bright and so impressive that I went out at 2:00 a.m. to gaze at it for a long time - until a band of nearby coyotes finally encouraged me to go back inside.

Is anyone thoroughly tired of hearing about Black Friday? The media is completely obsessed with it.

Black Friday is the most unappealing advertising ploy that I can ever remember. For me, it conjures up images of plagues, doom, depression, and despair......

.....which is a very apt description of the Christmas shopping season.