{"id":573893782,"date":"2021-11-12T21:01:48","date_gmt":"2021-11-13T02:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573893782"},"modified":"2021-11-13T18:51:43","modified_gmt":"2021-11-13T23:51:43","slug":"four-months-of-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2021\/11\/12\/four-months-of-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"Four months of winter"},"content":{"rendered":"

This was the week the seasons changed. Yesterday my office neighbor noted it by how the rain fell from a different direction outside of his window. Usually, he said, he watches it go left to right. But yesterday afternoon he watched it blow right into his window. <\/p>\n

I wouldn’t know. <\/p>\n

I took the day off today, so I saw plenty of the wide world outdoors. When I woke up we started with a brilliant morning. <\/p>\n

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As I waited for a delivery that required a signature I caught up on a bit of television. Yellowstone is back on for it’s fourth season and I needed to finish season three. This fourth season started big. If you’re not watching, I would understand. The characters are earnest, but ridiculous, and a few of them are really chewing the scenery. I have described it as Knots Landing in a heavily armed modern American West. If I tried to sum up the character arcs, you might agree.<\/p>\n

Or, if you prefer, here’s some dew-covered plant growth I noted earlier this morning.<\/p>\n

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The UPS man finally arrived, chipper in his opportunity to talk to someone, and with a usual patter that indicated he’d told these jokes before. My replies hinted at the idea that I am no longer accustomed to standing in a doorway, holding a cat desperate to escape to the wide world beyond, and talking to people.<\/p>\n

When that was done I escaped to the wide world beyond. Or at least two grocery stores. At the first, I noted that more people seemed to be better-masked in the mid-day than when I go earlier or later in the day. (This county remains under an unenforced mask rule.) The second store seemed about the same as it ever does, I guess. I’m not paying close attention there. I simply hustle in and head to one of the corners for a specific item, and then back out again. In fact, today I was moving too fast for the automatic door. Almost walked right into the thing as I exited. <\/p>\n

After that, back to the house, and to the garage, to sand things. It was bright, and then sunny, and then it rained. And then it turned cold and, eventually, I figured my fingers were too cold to check my sanding work. <\/p>\n

And that’s how you know the weather has turned. I came in and it was 42 degrees. I’ll finish the sanding another day, he said not for the first time. <\/p>\n

Maybe before the seasons turn again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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