THOUGHTS FOR A WINTERS DAY.

As nice a day as yesterday was, today is just about the opposite. Cloudy, damp, & just plain miserable but since this is Feb. that should be expected. There is only one good thing I can think about for the month of Feb. is that it is short. If they had to shorten a month to even out the calender thank heavens they choose Feb and not one of our summer months. That is all I will say about Feb. or I might start using 4 letter words.

Well I have started walking again and that is not a good thing if you see what is going on around you. Go for a walk some time and watch some of the antics that drivers pull, really makes you shake your head and wonder what our enforcement people do most of the time. No one stops for stop signs or to make a right turn on a red unless there is traffic on the street on which they are turning on, we like to refer to it as slow & go. If they do stop they stick the nose of their car out on the street and blocks the crosswalk. God forbid you want to cross a busy street at a crosswalk. When a traffic lite turns yellow you can hear the cars reving up so they will get through and not have to wait for the next green. In S'side the average red light lasts between 40 & 55 seconds so they must really be busy to risk an accident and pain to save that little time. You can count on at least 3 cars flying through yellow and a lot of times 1 or 2 through red. I don't know about your part of the world but here in S'side yellow is considered a faster form of green.

You have all heard of road rage well here in S'side if drivers don't smarten up and start letting me cross at crosswalks and stop blocking crosswalks when stopped comming out of a side street we are going to see our first case of walker rage. Maybe this is what we need to make the streets of S'side safe for the people who walk to try to improve their health. Not much sence in walking or jogging for your health if some dumn driver is going to run over you.

From todays paper: "In Headingley Manitoba a man trying to finish the flooring in the nursery of his home ended up with a 5 CM nail embedded in his head.
David boyda, 57, was using a nail gun to put down the flooring when a nail ricocheted and planted itself in his right cheek, just millimeters from his eye.
"When he came out of the room, his eye was scrunched and the nail was sticking straight out," Sheila said Sunday.
Boyda's wife was more upset that her husband, who apparently walked out of the bathroom and proclamed, "it isn't as bad as it looks." Nuff said.

Till next time.