Mondays and Sunny Days
We have both today, thank god because we have had way too much rain this month. Northern California is not like southern, we get a real rainy season, starts October and ends around April. The good thing is during the winter it is beautiful and green, right now the grass is thick, the flowering trees are in full bloom and it is just breathtaking. Better news, no snow, no sub zero temperatures (unless you want to travel to the Sierras to get your winter fix).
But you can get very long stretches, sometimes it can rain almost solid for a month. You can play in snow, go sledding, Skiing, throw snowballs. All you can do in the rain is get soaked and deal with mudslides. California is a place of extremes, in return for generally beautiful and benign weather, you have to deal with earthquakes, firestorms and mudslides. Of the three, mudslides are the most insidious, they are frequent, unpredictable and uninsurable.
I suppose paradise always has its down side, karmac balance and all.
California is rife with karma and coincidence, at least for me. I was not born here, my home is Pennsylvania, Harrisburg to be exact. I went to school in upstate New York (SUNY Ithaca, for those that get the joke). I spent years in Rhode Island, New York, Virginia, and New Jersey.
But, I was in California the first time I was married, I was an officer in the Navy and my ship was stationed in San Diego. My first wife was Texan, but also a Navy Nurse. We were married on base and had the reception on the beach. We left California when I was transferred to instructor duty, back to Saratoga Springs. Two years after we left the Navy, I took a job back in California, and soon after we were divorced. My second wife is a Californian, we were married in SLO town and had the reception on the Beach.
And I was divorced here. A second time.
And Now I am getting married in Marin, in California, to a New Yorker, born and bred.
And we are getting married and having the reception on the beach.
What the hell is a Pennsylvania boy doing living this kind of life, in California of all places.
And I am not even a movie star.
This is going to be a busy week, so I might not get too many posts it. I want to thank all my new readers for all their wonderful comments, it is great hearing from you guys. SSW, Zenboy, Beastie. And of course, Bad Girl and Kayten. I will be heading to your blogs this week when I need distraction, looking for a bit of wisdom or just entertainment from you all.
One more twilight zone moment. I have developed a fondness for Bad Girl and Kayten, I think mostly because their honesty and genuine goodness shine through their postings, and reading them brings a lot of perspective to my life and thinking, and for that I am always grateful. I think I am doing the same for them, as we all do for each other in blog space.
Yesterday I noticed our ages
Bad Girl 23
Kayten 34
Me 45
We are spaced out 11 years a piece, half generation plus one differences, to a tee.
Hmmm.....
But you can get very long stretches, sometimes it can rain almost solid for a month. You can play in snow, go sledding, Skiing, throw snowballs. All you can do in the rain is get soaked and deal with mudslides. California is a place of extremes, in return for generally beautiful and benign weather, you have to deal with earthquakes, firestorms and mudslides. Of the three, mudslides are the most insidious, they are frequent, unpredictable and uninsurable.
I suppose paradise always has its down side, karmac balance and all.
California is rife with karma and coincidence, at least for me. I was not born here, my home is Pennsylvania, Harrisburg to be exact. I went to school in upstate New York (SUNY Ithaca, for those that get the joke). I spent years in Rhode Island, New York, Virginia, and New Jersey.
But, I was in California the first time I was married, I was an officer in the Navy and my ship was stationed in San Diego. My first wife was Texan, but also a Navy Nurse. We were married on base and had the reception on the beach. We left California when I was transferred to instructor duty, back to Saratoga Springs. Two years after we left the Navy, I took a job back in California, and soon after we were divorced. My second wife is a Californian, we were married in SLO town and had the reception on the Beach.
And I was divorced here. A second time.
And Now I am getting married in Marin, in California, to a New Yorker, born and bred.
And we are getting married and having the reception on the beach.
What the hell is a Pennsylvania boy doing living this kind of life, in California of all places.
And I am not even a movie star.
This is going to be a busy week, so I might not get too many posts it. I want to thank all my new readers for all their wonderful comments, it is great hearing from you guys. SSW, Zenboy, Beastie. And of course, Bad Girl and Kayten. I will be heading to your blogs this week when I need distraction, looking for a bit of wisdom or just entertainment from you all.
One more twilight zone moment. I have developed a fondness for Bad Girl and Kayten, I think mostly because their honesty and genuine goodness shine through their postings, and reading them brings a lot of perspective to my life and thinking, and for that I am always grateful. I think I am doing the same for them, as we all do for each other in blog space.
Yesterday I noticed our ages
Bad Girl 23
Kayten 34
Me 45
We are spaced out 11 years a piece, half generation plus one differences, to a tee.
Hmmm.....
posted by Maurice_Basilius at 9:49 AM
2 Comments:
THAT is very interesting. . .I am not sure what it means, except for I am so cool to hang out with the "big kids"! :-P
In any case, I am grateful to you and Kayten as well. . .you are my Best. . .blog friends. :-)
Don't work too hard.
Redwood City? Jeez, that counts as almost neighbors, especially in Blogland.
You went nuke in the Navy - I was this close ----> <---- to doing the same thing back in 1982, but went the Marine Corps route instead.
Thanks for the comment on my blog, that's what led me here!
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