Well. look what i did.
it was a very different kind of day. first, i needed food to eat. and all of a sudden, the food i needed to eat was mostly stir fry vegetables. That in itself is a signal of a sense of season change. and i went on, to make many stops, feed store, propane, what looked like a Hobby Store but wasn't, Post Office , Alyssia's for batteries and
LIBRARY
it's been all this time. Ordinarily, Library would be pretty much first anywhere. But it hasn't here. I don't know why. and Suddenly, today . I didn't stay to cruise. Just got the card. Tay had been patient already. But what is most significant is that there was no sense of Hurry. There has been no need for the Hurry all along. i just was In it. and Suddenly today, i was not.
ADDING ON after publishing
and maybe this had something to do with it all. As i was leaving, driving down Old Olive, i saw a truck close to the road at the down there neighbor person's place. I skidded to a halt...as he got out of his truck i yelled hello and for the first time in all this time, i talked to him. I had imagined a kind of beer belly guy in his late 6o's...kindof the redneckie ones around here. They have an extremely KEPT place that is 2 homes and some out buildings in which all manner of metal and machine noises come from. Have no idea what they do. Tay runs the ridge across from there, ferociously standing ground against a dog that runs its rim across the road. All i've known of them is their noise and their dog. 4 years. So i skidded to a stop. Hello! I told him that i was wondering if he knew of anyone who worked on travel trailers, they have one, and that i thought maybe he might since it looked like he had lived there a good while. It turned out that he doesn't. But it was great, the exchange, him asking Tays name, his dogs name is Blue, he laughed about how serious they are, across the distance, setting boundries, he asked about the white truck and i told him Jenny and we agreed...doing what you can on weekends takes time. i told him the SUV was my granddaughter who brings me battery and ice. That...i thought, soon as i said it, was maybe going too far. But it was ok by him saying that travel trailers are hard to maintain when used as a residence, so he knows. at which point he asked me if i knew my otherside neighbor and i said yeah Dave and he said good then. Dave on that side, us here. In case there are things we need to know. i was in the right lane. all this time, he waved vehicles around the conversation. When we were done, he say goodbye to Tay. by name.
What we imagine isn't always what stuff turns out to be
