Woke up with the sunlight, on this ‘fall-back’ day—for those of you overseas, we say ‘spring-forward, fall-back’ to remember which direction to reset the clocks for daylight savings time…
And though it’s starting to be slush now, there were fat pretty flakes descending when I woke.
I love winter—with all its troubles, I love the winter, when it really sets in to be winter, with snow, not just brown dead stuff.
Thanks, Abigail. I’ll check my email. My grandmother came to Houston as a young woman, not long married, in the late 1920’s when she was around 20, I’ve just added up. So she saw Houston grow from a modest to small town to a huge city. Where I am now, inside the Loop, used to be the outskirts of town around the 1940’s or 1950’s and is now more like the middle circumference. Where I grew up was then on the edge of town, but that edge has since moved past somewhat also, and there’s now an outer Loop. Heheh, I know those overpasses you’re talking about near downtown, they’ve been there (and added to) since I was little. Seeing the land where the house I grew up in, now a business park, all paved over, seeing land that was open fields when I was a teen now developed for subdivisions and strip centers…what your dad meant about time compressing, seeing it all change and pass by, I get that. My current home was built the year before I was born, which puts it at about the same age as the house where I grew up. My grandmother’s home was built in the 1950’s, when the land had been on the outskirts of town, undeveloped until then, and the trees in that yard were ones she and my (step-) granddad planted. Hah, it was built when no one had thought of computers or lots of electrical devices, multiple TV’s and phones, when it was a very big deal to have one phone on a special table in the hall, or a TV in the living room and a stereo. Oh my! And the closets were tiny! This city has changed so much.
Re the email, I haven’t yet checked it. I did find a guitar store located fairly close, and I may try both shops next week. (Heck, they might be the same place.) Thank you, and thanks to your brother. 🙂