Too much to do. Current events keep overwhelming desires and ambitions. I had an important task that had to be completed on Friday, thus I spent all day Thursday and Friday working on it - temporarily pushing my Kivgiq editing to the side.
Now I have another task that must be completed by the end of the day Tuesday and, except for going to town to pick up Margie on Saturday, I kept my Kivgiq take pushed to the side and that task was the only thing that I worked on.
I had thought that I could finish it over the weekend, but it remains in a state of chaos, so my goal now is to finish it before I go to bed tonight and then send it on its way in the morning, so I can get back to Kivgiq.
I am determined to get back to Kivgiq, and to do with it just what I stated I would.
So I really have no time for this blog right now at all.
None. Zero seconds - that's how much time I have for it. ZERO SECONDS.
I will keep it going anyway - but simple and short.
With that in mind, yesterday I determined that I would take just one picture for this blog and I would make certain that it was a fairly dull image so that when I put it in this post and looked at it I would not have much to waste my time writing about it.
This is is. A blue Dodge Ram pickup truck.
I parked next to it when Margie and I took yesterday's lunch at McDonald's.
I know - this confession is going to cause me grief. I will be scolded and reprimanded on multiple fronts for taking Margie to McDonald's and thus ruining the health of the both of us.
But it was Sunday. Margie had come down with whatever had brought Kalib and Jobe down. She was not up to cooking, neither was I and anyway nobody has done any serious shopping around here for awhile and there nothing to fix for lunch.
So we went to McDonald's. Their new Angus burgers are actually very good. It was cheap. We could sit in the car with the heater going so it was warm.
And we got to look at this blue pickup truck.
I was even privileged to be able to take a photo of it.
Thus, I had all that I needed to make today's post.
I could keep it very short and simple.
One picture, plus one, two, or possibly three sentences. No more than that.
That is why I took this single boring picture of a blue pickup truck at McDonald's.
So that I could keep this post short and brief.
This will be my goal all week - until all my tasks and Kivgiq are done:
To keep these posts short and brief.
Then, this morning, as I was eating breakfast - steel cut oatmeal with walnuts, peaches and blackberries - one cat lay down in front of the wood stove and two more sauntered by.
No matter how brief one sincerely wants to keep his post, when something so dramatic and exciting as this takes place, one must go into action.
So I did.
And here they are:
Pistol, Jimmy, and Chicago by today's fire.
And this from India:
Two trucks, passing in opposite directions.