Anybody Else Have Cabin Fever?

I haven’t experienced a winter like this since I lived in Chicago in the late 50’s, early 60’s.  I was much younger and of course, stronger.  Now getting down the hill to the is both difficult and dangerous for me.  So, I’m a bit stuck inside. I had to cancel two medical appointments this last week, but neither were very important.

We haven’t had any friends over as we can’t ask people to park on the street and walk all the way up to the house on the icy driveway, which reminds me of the luge.  I feel a bit of cabin fever.  I also miss seeing friends. I can’t even walk around our land – the snow is too deep and is everywhere.  It just goes on and on, more snow on snow and ice underneath.

Now that I’m done with the WOMR contests, I’m back to writing – three poems so far.  One I keep revising because I’m not convinced it works yet.  Monday is another damned Monday holiday. I hate them. If they gave us Friday off, it would feel like more of a holiday. Sometimes, Dale can’t work on a Tuesday after a holiday Monday and that screws me up.

This week, I worked on the seeds that have come. Sorting them into those that I’ll start inside; those that go directly into the ground in early spring; those that go directly into the ground after the last frost, those should be planted in late summer or early fall.  Then I further sorted the seeds to be started inside but putting off the first bunch until the LAST week of February instead of the third week.  Woody keeps suggesting that we put it off further, but that would drag the seed starting into mid to late April. 

We have so many birds at the feeders and now Woody is finally putting down ground food where he has cleared a patch of frozen earth…and filling the feeders twice a day. The robins who stay normally have an easy time of it but they’re starving this winter so in addition to the seed filled feeder, Woody is putting down some fruit for them. The deer also eat it. The apples were a big hit but the oranges strike them as exotic. No takers. We have downy, hairy and red bellied woodpeckers everyday now. Some birds are so fast I can’t grab the binoculars in time to identify them.

It has been mostly not as abnormally cold this week, although a couple of nights  have been bitter. But while the snow may have settled, it is still omnipresent and the ice has not melted at all. I had to cancel medical appointments because I can’t get down the hill.  Falling is far more dangerous than anything the doctors can fix. I am quite afraid of falls, like most old people.

I know that even if the Senate acts to defund ICE, that Trump will veto it. He loves those thugs. Like the agent in Chicago who boasted of how accurately he shot an unarmed woman – seven shots he boasted, five right into her.