Bfth's Boring Blog

It's been quite a long time for me since I've blogged, at least in my mind. I'm one of those silly obsessives. (And not just about blogging.) I like to do around 12 blog posts per month. And the fact that it's October 31st and my monthly count is only 11 is driving me crazy.    I was thinking about this at 3:00 in the morning when I was awake. Because when you hit a certain age, and I have hit it and then passed it, you tend to wake up in the middle of the night. You're either too hot, or too cold, or you need to go to the bathroom. And then you try to go back to sleep and it doesn't happen.   No matter how much you want it to or how tired your body might be.   I was thinking about why I hadn't blogged in over a week. It's been very busy time at work.   (The last few months of the year are the craziest and most stressful.) However when I am passionate about something I usually don't let that get in my way. (Don't tell my boss.) I've been ...

As I have written before, I have a pond in my backyard. I have quite a few fish swimming in that pond. Right now those fish are getting ready for winter. I'm sad to see it happen, but it's time to lower the water level, clean the ponds of all the leaves that have fallen in, put the heater in the pond, and place netting over the pond to protect it for the winter. I don't want to do it, and actually I'm not, the guy who maintains my pond does, but it IS time. The nights are getting cold and the fish need to be kept warm.    After the tragedy of the winter of2024-25, we had 10 or so goldfish put in the pond. They were small fish. Over a year later, they have grown and even (sort of) developed personalities. Now there are at least 36 in the pond. (It's hard to keep track of them all. As a matter of fact I'm sure I'm NOT keeping track of them all.)    There are some that are very distinct. And those that are I have named. For example there is Different. We n...

  Seasonally, October is definitely a time of change.  The leaves change color.  (And this year the colors have been absolutely gorgeous.)  The temperature changes.  (I'm not too thrilled with the drop below 40, but...).  The air and the smells in the air change.  But maybe there's more to it than that?  Just this week I noticed a "Coming Soon" sign from a real estate agent on the front lawn on the house next door.  The house that was once my family home for over 40 years.  The house that was officially sold at the end of October 7 years ago. And if I recall correctly (and this was a long time ago), we moved to that house (when I was only 6) in October.  I could be wrong; after all that is a LONG time ago, but it seems to me that it was then when we moved approximately 1/2 miles from the house that I lived in with my parents from birth to 6 to this slightly larger house right next door to my grandparents. While I'm sure the ho...

 Since we moved to the Poconos, we've only had 2 strangers come to our door.  Back in NJ we get a lot of people knocking on our door, trying to solicit us for one thing or another.  Have a new roof put on our home.  (Yes, we probably should, but I'm not having it done by a stranger who came to my door.)  Sign a petition.  (But I'm not giving you a donation.)  Learning about Jesus.  (I'm happy where I worship.)  You get the idea. In the Poconos we are on a private drive, so we really don't get that.  (Having people use our driveway as their own private jug handle or speedway...well, that's another story.)  I kind of like that. Last year was the first time two ladies came to our front door that I did not know.  They actually knew the previous owner, or at least they knew his name and political affiliation.  That's why they came to the door.  We informed them that the previous owners had moved and that we were still regi...

(Note:  NOT my closet...just a random photos from the internet)  I am NOT a slob, but I'm not neat.  I don't dust or vacuum as much as I should.   I don't make my bed.  (I DO straighten it every morning, but I don't "officially" go in and "make" it.  I can never get it right, which is why while I will do the laundry, it's my husband makes the bed when the sheets come out of the dryer.)  My mother would be appalled.  She was incredibly tidy. (Except when it came to the basement of the house which she basically ignored which is why when my parents moved, my husband and I had a heck of a project.)   Perhaps the neatness "gene" skipped a generation.  My son is very neat and always has been.  He makes his bed every morning.  Of course he does leave glasses (often half full of water) around the house when he is home.  And his art studio (formerly my sun parlor) is very much in disarray.  (But isn't that an artis...

I was out walking this morning and the following things just popped in my head. So I thought I'd share. It’s just the randomness of my brain bubbling over again. The weather this year is completely wacky. Every single Sunday for the past 3 weeks we’ve had rain. (Including this past Sunday when my son came to visit us in the Poconos.  We were supposed to go see the train arrive at the historic depot in our town.  It’s a big deal with music, food, vendors, the museum is open…you get it.  And guess what?  Due to the torrential rainfall it was cancelled.  Ugh!)  This week we're not supposed to have rain not on Sunday but we ARE  supposed to have rain on Saturday. I don't take that as a win. I noticed when I looked at our rain gauge outside on Monday that we had nearly five inches. Of course one inch in that was from the previous week but still.. Of course  this is October and it has been cool during the days. As I noted we've turned the heat on. For a...