JANUARY ACTIVITIES

Click on the picture so you can see that I have a cord plugged into the block heater of the car so it will start in the cold weather. This is my backyard in the winter.

We had the coldest January on record this year - many days below -40F. Even so I have been busy. Had a once week call to spare for the bowing league, was asked to play drums for a musician's group and met friends a few times for social gatherings. I did find something that was fascinating to me - the street view segments on Google Maps. Since I was a military Brat and moved about 30 times before I graduated from high school I spent some of my hibernating days finding the houses we lived in and the schools I attended. Couldn't access all of them as the streets in England and Germany had not been filmed, yet. I did find the Paris hotel we stayed in the summer of 1959 ($5 a night) which was two blocks from the L'arc de Triumph. Not all of the streets I was searching for in the U.S. had been filmed but I was able to take a "drive" up every little road along the Gulf Coast that had been affected by hurricane Katrina - of interest to me since that is my family's home and all of my relatives live on the coast between New Orleans and Jacksonville, Florida. I didn't have addresses for all of the places and my Mom is trying to remember some of them. I had report cards from Kindergarten so I was able to find the school sites. I was flabergasted at the memories that popped into my head as a result of seeing these places. It was truly just likely driving by them in a car.
I shall have to put this activity aside for a while as I could spend countless hours "driving" to the cities I have either lived in or visited. I have lived in this house since the Fall of 1999 and never thought it possible to be in one spot for this log - a record for me. I guess you would have to be a military Brat to fully understand all of this sillyness.