{"id":691,"date":"2016-02-14T23:22:45","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T03:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aerendel.ca\/wp05\/?p=691"},"modified":"2016-02-15T00:19:29","modified_gmt":"2016-02-15T04:19:29","slug":"chilly-valentines-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aerendel.ca\/wp05\/2016\/02\/14\/chilly-valentines-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Chilly Valentines Day –"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sunday, February 14th, 2016 — \u00a7\u00a7 — -18\u02daC \/ 0\u02daF – Dark and Clear in Atlantic Canada @ 11:11 pm — \u00a7\u00a7 — Today was my Uncle Larry’s Birthday —<\/em><\/p>\n

\"River

The river here is frozen solid and covered with snow except for a little bit under one bridge, that I can’t see very well as we drive toward it. But I’m not about to try to drive a big heavy truck across the ice – Too many people back where we used to live died that way – at least a couple of fatalities every year.<\/p><\/div>\n

— It was pretty nice and toasty inside here today. Cut and split hardwood heats a lot better than cut up pieces of pallets thrown away by businesses.<\/p>\n

— Cathi made lasagna that had both me and the dog drooling as it cooked. And we have a heart-shaped chocolate cake to dessert with.<\/p>\n

— But – Remembering friends who hated Valentines Day because they were bullied and\/or never picked to be anyone’s Valentine. Perfectly beautiful people with a lot to offer – made to feel inadequate and unlovable by the stupid school system that was forced on us.<\/p>\n

\"Where

And this guy with #ptsd is suffering big time and I can’t do anything but pray things begin to get better for him.<\/p><\/div>\n

— The above tweet was posted by a guy who is currently homeless because he was fired for having PTSD symptoms during a major suicide epidemic when the previous Conservative government was closing down Veterans’ Affairs Offices to pocket over a $Billion$ and Veterans with problems had an even harder time trying to get help within a system that already tries to vilify them for not being ‘man enough’ to ‘get-over-it’ when the nightmares of brutal conditions, ugly death and military insanity in any conflict won’t just go away because some idiot with a couple of stripes says they should.<\/p>\n

\"Green

But Hummingbirds were my sister Diane’s favourites and she’d appreciate this photo of a Green Throated Mango Humming Bird.<\/p><\/div>\n

— I had a couple weird dreams last night, and when I told her about that my favourite Valentine told me she did too. But I also made contact with a cousin who died last year – I dreamed we were in a room with a bunch of relatives – The scene reminded me of a lot of family get-together-s while we were growing up and in our twenties and thirties – My cousin sat at a computer and busied himself doing something. In the dream I remembered he’d died and I asked him if I was the only one who could see him or was he visible to everybody there. & drat – I woke up before he could reply.<\/p>\n

\"Flower

& Here’s a nice photograph re-tweeted by a Hispanic guy with a lot of heart.<\/p><\/div>\n

— I’ll forget about all the time I spent today trying to fix problems caused by Microsoft’s idiotic new ‘Update’ glitches and remember the happy minutes of conversations I had with Cathi and the strange but fun interactions we always have with our four-legged friends.<\/p>\n

— [ Imagine your favourite Happy Smiling Face here – I won’t tell you about the firefox extension add-ons that substitute cute photos of kittens for any shot of Tom Cruise in social media\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42 ] –,<\/p>\n

~~~~~ Jim<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sunday, February 14th, 2016 — \u00a7\u00a7 — -18\u02daC \/ 0\u02daF – Dark and Clear in Atlantic Canada @ 11:11 pm — \u00a7\u00a7 — Today was my Uncle Larry’s Birthday — — It was pretty nice and toasty inside here today. Cut and split hardwood heats a lot better than cut…<\/p>\n

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