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 I love my new laptop.  When I feel like blogging, instantly it pops up to let me.  The past month I've been greeted by two auburn-colored llamas, with beautiful large round eyes, in the Tourmalet Pass, Hautes-Pyrenees, France, stately mountain ranges in the background, on my screen.  

The temperature was in the fifties all night, a little too warm for sleeping as I have layers of blankets and thought the temp was going to drop and didn't remove any of the layers.  With another cold front moving in there was thunder and lightning early this morning.  Temperature is beginning to drop as I type, late morning, and winds picking up.  The next six to seven days the area returns to cold winter temperatures, low teens a few nights and twenty degree days. But this late in winter I know I'm on the way to feeling spring in the air and watching the earth unfold its early bulbs and weeds.  

I rarely drink coffee anymore since I found out it is too acidic for my gut, both caffeinated and decaf,  but this morning I brewed up a cup to enjoy while trying to finish my jigsaw puzzle and blogging.  I found a recipe that soothes the acidic response but having no decaf in the house I brewed up full caf which sends me into power mode for a few hours.  When Mark was here for Christmas I had Duncan for him.  John is coming to stay with me for four days in March.  I'll get myself decaf so I can enjoy coffee in the mornings with him.  Just for kicks and grins I took my BP with Cliff's automatic BP monitor and it registered 160/93! I'm normally 112/67 without any Rxs.  Guess that tells me to lay off caffeine totally and get decaf. 

I'm really trying to get this puzzle finished so I can clear off my kitchen island but these last areas are challenging.


 The last two unfinished areas are similar colored leaves and I really want to finish this and move on.  It's been a pleasure during the coldest and longest January in my seventeen years here.  But I hear spring calling me and it's time to retire this puzzle and the memories that lived in my head while working it.

P.S.

My Valentine's evening with Janice and Lynn at Yogi's Neighborhood Grill.


 

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