It’s cool, foggy, and heavily misting this morning. I wanted to sleep in, but our hairdresser called first thing, saying he wouldn’t be able to do my husband’s haircut today. We have since regrouped, taken the trash down to the bottom of the driveway (with Amber enjoying the ride), and will have a stay-at-home day.
My husband had a really nice experience yesterday afternoon. He told me he was in the kitchen when he caught movement outside the dining area windows. He thought it must be a really big dog, but it turned out to be a doe with her fawn! He watched them as they walked all the way across our back yard and into the trees. I was glad Amber wasn’t outside, bothering them. A really special sight. I wish I had seen it.
I discovered yesterday that our town will build a new library to serve a two-county area. It’s still in the design stage, but they’ve purchased the land and are now in the process of getting water and other utilities to it. I’m a bit sad that it will be where the main street in our town intersects with the highway, much farther away from the center of town.
It makes me remember really happy days when I visited my grandparents in a small town called Nevada, Missouri, when I was a very young teenager. My brother and I visited them separately, each for two weeks during our time off from school. They lived close enough to the ‘square’ that I could feel quite independent. I ran errands for my grandparents, but also got to walk to the drugstore for a real coke with a cherry in it, made at the counter where I sat on a stool and visited with the person behind the ‘bar.’ I would walk to the library and check out books, then walk around the square, window shopping, stopping at the shoe store where we knew the owner. It was a really lovely time in my life. There are probably a lot of kids enjoying a similar experience now in our town, which will stop when the new library is built. But maybe they’re not as nostalgic as I…
Happy Tuesday.
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