Thoughts

Just a few random thoughts for you to start your week off right.
Driving home from church today I couldn't help but love the air - despite the fact that it has been getting increasingly colder over the last couple of days. In this case the coldness is what helped make it endearing (if air can be endearing...something I'll have to ponder...) In any case the air was crisp and filled with the smell of wood fires burning. In a word it was glorious. In the olfactal sense it was the very essence of winter. The only thing I needed at that moment was a good book (or possibly a movie and project) my own fire and a cup o'warm beverage.
Another thing happened when driving home. I saw an armadillo walking across the road. Which immediately triggered two thoughts: First) armadillos look really funny when they walk (run? it wasn't moving really fast so it's hard to qualify it as a run...scurry?) which triggered thought number two) how could I have not noticed how funny armadillos look when they walk...I've seen tons of them haven't I? Wait...I think this is the first time I've seen one alive. In the more than a year and a half we've been here I've seen many armadillos but they've all been dead! Armadillos look neater alive than dead.
I had steamed cabbage with leftover sausage for dinner tonight and really enjoyed it. And with each bite I thought "It's amazing that cabbage can be this good...from what I've heard it's full of vitamins and pretty dang cheap...I should eat cabbage more often." And it's true. I think I'm going to go add cabbage to my grocery list right now.
And finally something I've been thinking about lately but would love some feedback on. I've been considering getting some fashionably cute leg warmers. Here is my thinking: I would love to wear my skirts out more often but don't have proper winter footwear for them. I would love to buy boots but in all honesty boots look absolutely ridiculous on me because my legs are too skinny for the size I need. Big foot, skinny calf is apparently not a common combination...that or we are all far too quiet as it's hard to find anything that looks halfway decent...think straw in soda cup and you have a good idea of what my leg looks like in a boot. I recently saw somebody in legwarmers and they pulled it off really well and it seemed like it might be a good solution for me but I'm weary because I'm not the most fashion savvy person I know so I'd like some feedback before I look more into making/buying some.
And there you have the highbrow kind of thinking that you can only be found here. (Okay there probably where a few more random thoughts thrown in there but I mercifully forgot them before I got to the computer.)

The Human Mind is Amazing

And quite frankly did anyone see that last entry covering so much territory? Good grief if it had been on a map it would have covered the U.S. on three trains (does that make sense to anybody else or only me?) Point being my line of thought travels faster than I can keep track of sometimes and before I know it I've hit three subjects in one paragraph - all relatively different. Is that how everybody's minds function or just me?