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My thoughts released; a mind set free |
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These pages contain my thoughts, from meandering ideas and persuasions to deep cerebrations and serious mentations. Why, for what purpose? To release my mind and set creativity free. Somewhere inside the constraints of my mind dwells a writer, a poet, an artist who paints with words. In here, I release those constraints and set the artist free. Perhaps, lost somewhere in the depths of thought, is a story or a poem, waiting to be written. |
| Yesterday, my wife and I were trying to decide whether to go to Glendalough State Park with the dogs or do a bit of shopping and visit her mom. The forecast was a major influencer, with rain and snow supposedly arriving in the afternoon and lasting into the evening. By the time we finished lunch, the forecasted weather looked like it was going to stay south of us, so we loaded up the truck and headed to Glendalough to do a bit of hiking and to let the dogs get some exercise. But, since my wife returned to work today, we also decided to visit her mom for a bit, too. And since we would be in Wadena to visit mom, we may as well stop and pick up a few groceries. Because my mother-in-law doesn't tend to eat very well (she's in her nineties), I like to make up extra soup and freeze some for her in single-serving containers. We put these in an insulated shopping bag and then put that in the cooler we keep in the back of the truck. Then we headed off to the park. Being a nice day, there were quite a few people out on the trails, so we parked by the picnic area road. It's closed off through the winter, and nobody tends to go down there. We walked the road, but since it's unplowed, it was a good hike. But in some places the snow was quite deep, and it made hiking difficult, not to mention we got snow in our boots. We decided that winter hiking requires snowshoes, and this morning we shopped online and ordered some. After a few hours in the park, we went to visit my mom-in-law. She was excited to see us, and we had a nice visit. We did learn that she had taken a fall about a week ago and cracked a couple of ribs. She had woken during the night to use the bathroom, stepped on her dog's ball, and fell as a result. Other than that, she was doing well. After, we did a bit of grocery shopping. We didn't need a lot, so it went pretty fast, but by the time we were ready to drive home, it was getting kind of late. It would be about forty-five minutes to drive home, then to put stuff away and fix dinner, well, it just made sense to get something to eat before we went home. We decided to stop at Burger King, get some chicken tenders and fries, and eat on the drive home. But when we got there, the menu had changed, they didn't have chicken tenders anymore, they had chicken fries. We ordered them along with an order of fries and an order of onion rings. Soon enough, the food was ready, and we took off for home, waiting to dig into the food once we were outside of town. What a disappointment! The chicken was ground and formed, mostly tasteless, and very salty. The fries were alright, but not as good as they used to be, and the onion rings didn't have rings of onion in them; they had onion filler in them; they weren't even crispy, but soggy from the mashed-up onion inside the batter shell. At least the dogs enjoyed the rooster-dicks chicken fries. It seems it's getting harder to find decent food when eating out, or maybe I've gotten a lot pickier. I tend to think it's a bit of both. Luckily, we had gotten some healthy snack foods while shopping and enjoyed them after we got home. |
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