Death

I had to bury one of my ferrets Thursday. Smokey hadn't been doing well for some time. She'd eat but not much. (She wasn't a big eater as it was.) My wife and I think she may have been ailing since we got her from a neighbor who was moving last August. We aren't sure. All we do know is that she wasn't doing well in the hours before her death.

While her death didn't shock me, it did bring thoughts of my eventual death back to the fore.

See, death scares me. I don't know what I'll find, if anything. Does my soul continue to live while my corporeal body lies in a coffin "six feet below". Will I return? Be it as another human or in some other form? Maybe as a bird, as I feel I'll become after some period.

My other fear is that I won't die, and when my body is placed in the coffin I'll awaken and not be able to get out.

This above almost all other things is my biggest fear.

-More to come

Going for a drive

One of our favorite things to do last Summer was to go for a drive. Just head out and drive. Head east - Syracuse. Head south -Canandaigua. Head west -Rochester and the regions and 'burbs beyond. Head north -Lake Ontario. We usually went South and when we got to one of the State routes we'd decide which way to go. Turn left and head west. Turn right and head east. We'd just drive from there.

We did that yesterday. I took a half day at work, ran a few errands and came home. We then went to have a late lunch and then headed out. We took State Route 350 north until we got to Ridge Road -the name derived from the fact that after the Glaciers receeded they left a ridge a few miles south of Lake Ontario- we turned East and followed Ridge, passing through some of the more rural communities that are part of the Rochester, NY area, to Sodus, NY and turned South following State Route 88 until we reached State Route 96.
and turned East. This we followed through Clifton Springs, Phelps, Senaca Falls -birth place of among other things; A woman's right to vote, Memorial Day and the basis of Bedford Falls in "It's a Wonderful Life". From there to Auburn. Home of one of the State Prisons. We headed north on State Route 34 until we got to State Route 31 and turned left (West) and headed home.

120 or so miles and 4 hours later we were home. Having seen some of the area we live in or only hear about just makes it all the more interesting for us.

I, for one, am proud to live in a area that is rich in its history.

More to come

My job

I work for a local manufacturing company and we make envelopes for photos, cd-rom, perishable foods, beauty products and various other uses. Right now the job stinks. It's been slow for the last month. Normally we have enough work coming in to keep us busy for months.
Since the middle of March we've had enough to run one or two folders. Maybe
even three on a good day. And then for only one or two days of the week.
I've been outside doing "landscape" work. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy the outdoors.
And it is giving me something to do. It's just not what I am normally paid to do.
But, that work is now done, and I have to find other things to do.

I have painted, weeded, raked, filled divots, cleaned, scraped until it looks
as though the plant was only a few years old instead of twenty.

When does it end?

-More to come