by waaytoomuchintothis » Sat Dec 30, 2017 12:32 pm
2017 around here was the year of That Just Can't Happen disasters. Crazy stuff. Nothing dangerous, but several times of great sadness and/or loss in many ways. I have been told for years that at my age I can expect people I know to die more often than before in my life, but but there were a cluster of them this year. Scary to think I would have said that at least three of them were in better shape than me. Aside from folks dying, there were favorite trees on the property that were killed by incompetent chainsaw clowns cutting for line clearance out at the street, freak storms of a type that doesn't happen here (derecho, for cryin' out loud? sounds Spanish-ish to me, not Virginia), the old track I lovingly restored that began turning to dust and had to be junked, lost things I built, etc. Stuff that just can't happen. Next year has got to be a great year to offset this one and achieve balance. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.