It's not as if nothing has been happening, or that life hasn't been good or bad or indifferent... Sometimes it's just hard to find the inspiration to say something or share something about what is in fact the day to day existence of a not so interesting person.
Having said that, I realise that each of us has a different life experience, and I know too that the majority of folk that visit this site are my family and friends and all they want to know is how things are. Once, not so long ago, we wrote letters - in long hand- to one another. Now, when I use a pen I get a pain in my wrist and find it hard to find inspiration to write to anyone about anything, it all seems so pointless, the news that I send via snail mail is 2 weeks old... and yet when I get a snail mail letter I am so happy and it goes into my mail drawer - to be kept till I die and some poor relative has to throw it all out...
I often wonder about how much this technological age of ours is losing for future generations.. it's all electronic and snap chat, tweet texting, sms... I remember seeing the time machine for the first time (takk Jómbi) when he went into the future and the books became dust.... something about that really really touched me and has always been a worry for me.
I hate how reliant we are on electricity and now even more how reliant we are on digital technology. Who has a radio that works on batteries in their house? I know I am starting to sound like a mad case bunker builder... but still, I sort of still want to think that I could cope with a power cut that lasts longer than a day or two.... but I would not have a phone, nor radio, nor television... fridge and freezer depends on the time of year, even my natural hot water heating is dependent on electricity to pump the water up from the ground.
Goodness me, this blog post went to places I never intended it to go, but this has been on my mind for a while now so maybe I needed to vent it.
In other news, mum and Unnur are off to Paris ... they leave the Krók tomorrow, and off to Paris on Thursday back to Iceland on Sunday.
Freyja is getting old and probably arthritic, she limps every now and then - but doesn't seem to be in pain. She is still the most indulged dog in the hood.
Christmas is coming and so we are allowed to indulge in lights all over the place..... The tree was lit last saturday, so so cold - but no snow - still twas nice to see so many down in the old town square.
Will put photos on that have probably nothing to do with the post - but hey - it's been months.......
This years Christmas tree.
2 comments:
Yay! A post! I have been checking every few weeks or so and was hoping one day we'd get one :) Ditto what you said about books, letters, electricity and technology. I think the same things. I have a solar powered iphone charger, you can also charge a bunch of other stuff with it. That's my insurance, though I've never actually used it and don't even know if it works and it would be a real effort to find all the bits for it if the power failed for a while. I always worry about all the stuff in the freezer.
I like to keep a physical diary, sometimes I paste interesting articles in there, I have less and less time for writing in there these days, and nothing i write is all that interesting.
As always I LOVE your pictures, Henry is SO big! I'd love to cover my roof in solar panels and have a wind turbine in the back yard. I'd also love to re-route my gray water away from the sewage to water the back yard and have a big garden to grow the veggies. Maybe... someday. The news is saying we could have power outages tonight with a winter storm we're having (nothing compared to what you have) we've got the fire place stoked up!
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