Spring Thoughts

Crime
Cars were broken into during the night on a street near where I live. It’s the first sure sign of spring. When nights are warm enough for hoodlums to prowl around and get into mischief, spring is definitely here.

Dreams
I had crazy dreams last night. Dreams are funny – at the time I experience a dream, everything that is happening makes perfect sense. But later when I’m awake and I try to recall the dream, it’s like a jigsaw puzzle with half the pieces missing. If I try to recount the dream to someone, there are big holes in my narrative and it ends up making no sense at all.

I’ve had lucid dreams. That’s a dream in which the dreamer knows it’s a dream and can sometimes influence the dream. I remember knowing I was asleep, knowing I was dreaming, and trying to make myself wake up but could not.

Mowing
We’ve had enough warm days recently to grow some tufts of grass and a crop of weeds in my yard, and the yard is beginning to look scruffy. But it looks no worse than my neighbors’ yards. No one has mowed yet, so my yard blends with the surrounding yards. The first person to use his or her mower will start the grass-mowing season. After one yard is mowed, everyone else will have to keep up. I feel I should mow my yard now but … I don’t want to be that person who gets the mowing rolling for everyone else. So it’s kind of a Mexican stand-off. Who’s going to be the first?

Diet
I went on a reduced-calorie diet a few weeks ago in an effort to shed the winter pounds I picked up since November. I suspect many people people who try to lose weight have a particular problem that I always experience. And that is, my body will only allow me lose a certain amount of weight before it puts on the brakes. Week one, I lost 3 pounds. Weeks two and three, I lost 2 pounds. The fourth week, I lost a paltry 1 pound. Then I hit a plateau. For the last two or three weeks, my weight has held steady. However, my determination will not waiver. I’m sticking with the diet.

Well, that’s enough thoughts for one blog post. Enjoy what’s left of Passover, have a Happy Easter, and take care.