Yesterday, January 18th was the first day we were snowed in. Today we are really snowed in. During the daylight hours it was difficult to see beyond the field in front of our house to the road. There is something cozy about about this situation in this house. I can remember not so many years ago when being snowed in anywhere would have been a very uncomfortable feeling. I remember pacing floors and trying to find a way, any way to get out. Perhaps it is because the house is large and the people in it are so loving and easy to be with. Also I no longer have that feeling that I have to be some where for work. I don't take any jobs during the bad weather months, unless they are right in the village where I live.
In some ways I was looking forward to winter. When the weather is like this it is easier for me to give myself permission to do what I enjoy. I can spend hours reading, watching TV and playing/working on my computer without the usual guilt I feel about not being busy. Hopefully I am erasing the old tapes in my heads, the tapes placed there by parents and employers and even myself; the ones that say "what are you doing, what have you done and when are you going to get this done". I have answers for these questions now; nothing, nothing and when I bloody well feel like it. Ahhh, just a few of the many benefits of age.
Thursday, January 19th, 2012............9:01p.m.
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