Moving

It's a topic for me this week. I think about it and realize that we do it all the time. In my understanding, we as Americans move frequently within the span of our life. Some moves are across the country and some are "just down the street." Since I first moved out of my parents house 7 years ago, I have moved three times. From a house to an apartment to a house. My parents on the other hand have stayed in the same house for about 23 years. I guess you could defend the longevity of the stay in one home by age claiming that you are are more likely to move when you are first married and without children. The other side of this would be that once you have your children, you will stay in the same location for their sake. Your younger years (20's and 30's?) is the time in your life when you are moving up in your career, increasing your salary, and increasing your lifestyle with few ties to one location (geographically or just an apartment builiding).

I know it's a little off subject, but from time to time I wonder what it was like when the settlers first settled. A family would get some land, build a house, bring in the neighbors to raise a barn roof. Then, when their children grow up the wives of the sons move into the family house and the daughters marry and move in with their husbands family. If they don't move into the same house with their parents, they build another house on the same family farm inviting the neighbors over again for another roof raising. Nothing much changed outside of aging. Same people you live with. Same neighbors nextdoor. Same farm land to plow, seed, and harvest. Same one room schoolhouse for your children as was there for you. The same old "schoolmarm" teaching multiple generations. A large supper every day with your family rather than our standard now of one per year on either christmas or thanksgiving. It seems that only 200+ years later a family of four can easily pin down the United States or even the world by living in the furthest corners from eachother. They head out "looking for a bright new world," I wonder if they ever find it.

Moving

So I'm planning a move of our house. About 20 - 40 miles. That's it. It still requires packing. It still requires movers. It still requires figuring out how to do all this in the next 2 weeks. No, I would not say I am stressed about it. I would say I am intriuged by why people do this. Nest in one place to pick up and make a new nest in another place. I will give credit to the birds, they just leave it all and start new. The female robin does not hold tight to a piece of string that she found and have to take it with her. The male robin does not reminisce about a couple sticks and how he wrestled a bluejay for the rights to them and demand they figure out a way to bring all 3 sticks with them. No. They just leave it all behind. Done and done. Off to the new. Although when birds do that they pick up more sticks, string and leaves from the ground for free. If we left our couch, I am not sure if we would be able to get another without spending a dime. Unless we find one on the side of the road. As Jeff Foxworthy says, "If that's there after dark, it be in my living room."

Daily Comics

I enjoy a few comics on a daily basis. As I do not get the newspaper daily, I check out the websites to see these few comics. There was a time when I would read all the comics, just to pass the time, and decided there are only a few that I enjoy for the humor or for the storyline or both. I wonder if people can be divided into those two categories... read the few they like or read them all. I would think so, but I've been wrong before.

I would like to meet the guy (or girl to be pc) who reads comics they do not like, seeks out one or two each day, to see if they have gotten better or to see if they are suddenly funny. For instance, do I suddenly find a fat cat funny or a group of guys on an army base? Maybe the sandwich guy did something I'll laugh at today.... nope, he's taking a nap and I don't find naps laughable. I wonder if this person exists, the always optimistic in regards to the comics guy who hopes each day that the next one he reads about the heavy girl shopping will make him laugh.

Is it spring when the squirrels start romping?

Yesterday afternoon, I watched as two squirrles played chase outside my office window. They hopped from tree to tree and then back to the ground only to run in a circle and do it all over again. They paused once or twice to eat flowers off the tree that is blooming.

Everything is that bright shade of green that only comes with new blooming in the spring. The flowers are peaking up out of the ground. And this morning I have the space heater under my desk on as it is only 40 degrees outside and in my office building. But my toes are toasty warm.