Day 360
Today I ran wild with reckless abandon.
Well, staggered with reckless abandon was more like it. My back is a crunched up, twisted mess again. However nothing was going to deter me from being wild and carefree today – not even a bad back.
It was 63 degrees here today. Hello … you’re supposed to say, “WOW!” at this point because this is JANUARY … in CHICAGO! I know, I know … WOW!!!!
I knew it was supposed to be “nice” today after peeking at the forecast. Let’s just say that Chicago nice and my nice are two different things … however, it was still NICE!
I dressed in capris … my ankles were naked! That’s the reckless abandon part … NO SOCKS! In January! In Chicago! I dare say that is pretty reckless! And wild!
I ran errands today with my car windows … DOWN! OMG. More reckless abandonment on my part. I didn’t care if it was raining in my car (which it was) … it felt great to have that soggy goodness and sweet wet earth smell permeate my car … as well as my soul.
Like I’ve said before … I’m a rain baby … part mermaid, I’m sure.
I heard, too, that it was to rain today. So, after errands I hooked up Mobes, put on my chameleon-green raincoat and we headed out to walk the ‘hood.
We walked past the cemetery, southward, past the house with the tree growing out of its driveway … past the hidden, windy road that splits in two to accommodate a tree in the middle of it, past the oak forest where the gnomes live (or at least it looks like gnomes should live there) and past the house that almost always has a black squirrel or two playing on the lawn (no squirrels today though).
We walked a couple of blocks and headed home … knowing that that was far enough for the 12 year old and far enough as the sky was turning darker with each step we took as well as getting to be an odd greenish-gray color. Never a good sign in the Midwest!
I wasn’t worried about a tornado … but I know enough to know that rain was imminent and probably a LOT of it was coming. No sooner than 10 minutes after we arrived home the skies opened up and the torrents began!
It doesn’t rain like this in CO – ever! It’s been raining since before 3pm … nearly 10 hours now! The ground is still cold and hard so the ice melt from last week had already flooded low-lying areas. There is a LOT of standing water around. My backyard is a disgusting mud pit/pig wallow. My entryway doesn’t look much different!
In any case … the rain is to continue and then change to snow over night and tomorrow with our temps plunging down to the 20’s and teens and single digits in the next few days the yard will be transformed into a skating rink!
But that’s okay. I had today. I don’t care if Mom Nature has Alzheimer’s and can’t remember what season it is. I enjoyed today’s little tease of Spring and savored the smells and damp goodness and warmth … with every part of me. Especially my naked ankles!
It was a great soul-charger and I did my best to meet it head-on with (my version of) reckless abandon.