I’m Due Home Soon
I’m due home soon.
Where the winds will nip noses
Pinching ear lobes to red
Bowing heads low
While shoulders shrug high
As downtown streets funnel howls.
Stores beckon from the gale
With a last exertion you lunge
Leaving frozen concrete
Clinking through the door
A few moments decompression
Wool pulled off head
Shrugs subsiding
Heads rising
You turn to account for others
Make sure you’re all here
That no one was left behind.
Christmas jingles twitter overhead
Smiling staff greet you
Commenting on the cold
At Fred’s CDs are browsed
Vinyl flipped through in the back
Some customers remain bundled
Still in shock from the outdoors
Still unaware of the current warmth
At the Bird House electric chirps echo
From plastic robins and sparrows
Motion detecting or button pressed
Reminding us of the summer past
Woof Design brings warmth
Wool throughout welcomes
You want to buy so much right now
For wind tunnel days can never come
With too much wool.
The Travel Bug as a toy store
Suitcased walls are multicolored
Stocking stuffers bring smiles
And wants to tinker
Exploring the world of folding travel scissors
Plastic case wallets
And inflatable pillows
Velma’s takes you in
Sits you down for lunch
Soup to be had all around
Slurping down warmth as outdoors
Passers by scamper by
Head bowed and shrugged
You turn from the window
And spoon in more
Christmas shopping downtown
It brings the season into focus
One of the traditions that warms the memories
Yes I’m due home soon.
SATURDAY…
--- Awake at 3:00.
Always tough going back to day shift after four days off and two nights
prior to that.
--- Work is fairly quiet… though picks up in the afternoon
some.
--- Some salad for supper and a bit of TV.
SUNDAY…
--- One of those days where 12 hours at work feels like
15. Oy.
--- I resist the temptation of KFC for the Grey Cup. Had a few extra cookies watching the game
instead… I’m not made of stone after all.
MONDAY/TUESDAY…
--- Nights. Get my
iPad in this time period too. So spend
much of my off time from work setting up and exploring that.
WEDNESDAY…
--- Not feeling great today.
Like fighting a cold. Due to
that, I stay in all day and just relax.
By tonight I’m feeling more myself.
THURSDAY…
--- Lots of sleep was needed. Likely got close to eight hours.
--- Feeling better today.
Do a 45 minute walk in the snowy woods.
Not much down yet… likely under 5 cm total. But it’s enough to feel Christmas like.
FRIDAY…
--- Cold day. Around
-10. I get groceries and go for a walk…
but when I’m not in the woods, on the walk, the wind is enough to freeze my
face off… so the walk is brisk and done in under 30 minutes.
SATURDAY (Today)…
--- Wake up to see it’s feeling like -20 out today. At least this morning. Funny thing… tomorrow is supposed to be rain
and around 10. Weird times.
--- Bit of morning TV by the fire… causes some mid morning
naps. Not too bad.
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