I am only posting today to showcase the commemorative image that Google Photos produced today from a photo that I took exactly seven years ago on December 19, 2012.
As you can see in Google Photos' commemoration, we had some snow around here ─ this was the view looking out from our home to the cul-de-sac we live in:
And here is the original photo as filed in a Google Photos album:
We have yet to see any snow on the ground here in Surrey thus far this season. We have only been getting lots of rain.
I wrote in an old journal entry from December 19, 1979 (that I reproduced today in my private blog) that I had heard how the rain we had received a couple or so days earlier broke a flooding record that existed from back in 1972.
In fact, on December 17, 1979 my mother and I had to bus in to New Westminster from her home in the Kennedy Heights area of Surrey late that afternoon because the roads around the Surrey side of the Pattullo Bridge were so badly flooded that only buses were being allowed through ─ we had a partnership as evening office janitors, so we needed to get in to New West to start work that evening.
I suppose that commercial vehicles were also allowed through, of course.
It's been pretty much raining ─ relatively lightly ─ all day today here in my part of Surrey. However, it has been a rare Winter that has passed without any snow of significance, I think. And January is still ahead, after all.
Anyway, I am not much into the blogging game right now as my evening gets underway, so I won't try to pad out this post. Anybody who is interested enough can always request access to my private blog. It contains several thousand posts, for I began it in September 2008.
And I have been reproducing my old journal entries in posts ─ I think I began doing that in my blog back in 2012.
My old journal started up sometime in 1973 when I was a 23-year-old living in New Westminster, and thus far I have worked my way through the reproduction (transcription?) of its old entries until I today reproduced that entry from December 19, 1979 ─ exactly 40 years ago. By then, I was 30 years old, and living in Surrey.
I think that my final journal entry was composed well into the 1990s. It is unlikely that I will live long enough to reproduce all of its entries right up to its conclusion if I continue to do so 40 years after the entries were first made. As I said, I am only up to December 1979 as of today, exactly 40 years ago ─ and I am now 70 years old.
Thus, if I lived long enough to reproduce the final journal entry from the 1990s...well, I turned 41 in October 1990, so I would be 81 in the present at that point if I am still reproducing those old entries 40 years after they originated.
And I seem to recall that my journal may have finished in 1996. If that is so, then I would be 86 years old 40 years later should I still be blogging.
I cannot imagine that I will still be blogging at that age. Heck, I'm surprised that I have been blogging since September 2008 when I was still 58 years old!
Yet here I am rambling on yet again. No more ─ this post ends now for today.
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