Mama Bear

I'm getting ready to hibernate. When the cold weather set in, I basically move into my kitchen. I can turn down the heat in the rest of the house and then the dogs and I are very comfortable using the one room. I started doing this a couple years ago and just love the cosy feeling of hunkering down for the winter. I sit at my table with the dogs in their beds on the floor surrounding the floor grate. I also have a little electric space heater that looks like a wood stove to take the chill off when necessary. I have a little flat screen TV mounted on the wall with DVR. I REALLY love the heating bills...they've almost become dinky! I'm buying stew meat this weekend..another sign of winter.
It's not quite like Laura Ingalls Wilder in The Long Winter, but I like the feeling I get by doing this. Oh, I even moved my Christmas Tree location last year so that I could see it through the kitchen french door. Simply cosy.

Before I began this blog last June, I was so full of things to say. Before I took this plunge, I was so full of ideas. Then, I froze. Apparently, I'm not alone. I read in "The Happiness Project" (Gretchen Rubin) website that this is the norm. We feel that we have to have the perfect topic, or think of the best way to say something...so while we are waiting for inspiration... nothing happens.
Well believe me, a lot has happened since my first 3 posts... too much to catch up on in one small space. But I've decided that from this point on, I'm not going to wait more than 2 days between posts so that I will get over this fear of not being good enough to blog.
In case you stumble upon this post, you may be wondering why I use so many "elipses" ... It is just my style. I stop to think and insert dots. I guess it is like using white space in poetry for me. Maybe I should just use the white space because it doesn't look as cluttered... I'll get back to you on that.