Had we gone on our planned vacation, we would have been settled in down around Orlando for this week. We would have been just down the road from our long time friends the Dershimers, I don’t know what the weather is there now but it is certainly cold up here. I make that statement because I am assuming we would have made it through the winter mess that blossomed between here and there during our planned travel. We both felt uneasy about the trip and cancelled it a while back. Perhaps, had we gone, that winter mess might have caused us great discomfort. We will never know but we have learned to follow that inner guidance. Is it the soft whispers of God or some spiritual guides giving us advice? Is it relatives past, concerned about or well being? I don’t know but I pay attention. I think it stayed in the single digits here today and it sure would be nice to be in sunny Florida right now.

I have started the long process of converting some of the old VHS tapes into DVD’s. Some of those tapes contained old movie footage from before I was born. I have reels of tape taken by my grandmother. Many minutes can go by without one head in the shot. The only way to to besure your head was not cut off was to bend over! It was still fun to see the old degraded movies of my Mom and her family. There were lots of picture of my Grandfather in his garden or with his daughters. With grandparents back then, being no different than they are now, there were LOTS of grandkid pictures! I saw me as a toddler along with my siblings. Good medicine for a cold afternoon.  I was amused to see me at age 4-5 years drinking a bottle of Coke. So, I was a Coke drinker for over 60 years!

I watched Krystal in a production of the Christmas Bunny at school (she was the bunny). I could not understand the words any more now than I could then but it was still fun to watch.

There are many cassettes to copy and I am sure I will enjoy them all even though those early VCR cameras were certainly poor quality. Or was it me? In any case the auto focus was not very auto and even less focus. But I still can remember those good times with the kids. Do we really realize how lucky we are with the ability to capture the present so we can watch it when it is just a memory of the past. Not only can we watch it, we can also share it  instantly on a friends computers or big screens half way around the world. With this many changes in my lifetime, I can’t even imagine what it will be like in 20 years. Dick Tracy and Buck Rodgers technology will be old hat. I guess it is already but then , so am I.

That’s what I was thinking.