FRIDAY SKY - PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY, CALIFORNIA

It was a madhouse at the grocery store when I went there after work to get a few items.  Almost everyone loaded up their carts with bread, milk and whatever we thought would keep us from starving as we prepared for the first big snow storm of 2014.  (Alisa, I am sure you remember the rush to the grocery stores before the snow from when you used to live here in STL.)

Just like at Christmas/Easter or any other “rush hours” of shopping for the major holidays, I was the only smiling person with a few items in a small cart.  Everyone looked so anxious and ready to kill for that last load of bread or jug of milk which might not fit into their overloaded large cart.

I thought these photos from our road trip, driving along California Pacific Coast Highway, would sort-of keeping us warm during this “deep freeze”!

FRIDAY SKY - HAPPY LAST FRIDAY OF 2013

Mike O’Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge / Hoover Dam Bypass Bridge – Nevada/Arizona – July 8, 2013.

I thought these photos from our recent road trip would be fitting for this post – Friday Sky – the last Friday of the year.

There was nothing special about today being the last Friday of 2013.  No one said “seeing you next year” because most of the people will be working the first part of next week, or at least on Monday the 30^th.  Some people have to work the full 8-hour schedule on Tuesday the 31^st.  Of course, most businesses are open on Jan. 1^st, especially restaurants and department stores.

It was in the upper 50s and sunny.  I actually did not need a jacket when I went out during lunch time.  The weatherman says it would get cold on Sunday and next week we will be back to normal winter temperature.

I read in the Parade Magazine that originally the practice of making New Year’s resolutions wasn’t initially timed to new year.  It actually started in the pre-Christian era with the Babylonians, later grew in the Roman empire.  Statistically, the rate of people achieving their goals is only 8 percent.  Did you make any new year’s resolutions?  Will you be in the 92 percent of people not keeping their promises or the special 8 percent?