Ah, the chaotic comfort of fall, the season when my kids are needy, the schedule is impossible, and there's never enough of anything to go around. Miranda's speeding ticket was dismissed, she dropped one of her three English classes, and now wants to go on a spending spree in her spare time with her "spare" money. Stephen is, well, Stephen - watching his bank account dwindle to nothing while he spends entirely too much on fast food... but hey, he's 21 now. Another year or two and he'll declare his independence - and I'm betting I'll still be doing semi-monthly money transfers. Heather either is really enjoying high school and doing well in class, or is the best actress on the planet. I'm not taking any bets. I just want her to pass all her coursework. My gadding butterfly just won't light long enough to take this stuff seriously. Tonight is Open House at school, so maybe I'll get a better idea of what's going on. Tomorrow we have "Call to Freedom" at the church, so I guess Thursday night I'll actually cook for the first time this week. Unless, of course, something else pressing comes up ;)
Like a bad penny.... We used to scuba dive as our hobby, a hobby which eventually led to the procurement/construction of a small dive trailer to haul four sets of gear and four cylinders. It was a simple but elegant design - a box on a single axle frame, with the beginnings of a mural painted on both sides, and dive flags at either end. The kids had helped paint it, with Stephen taking special pains with the sharks. When we moved to Nashville, we sold it. We didn't dive as often, and we had no place to store it. Nearly ten years have passed since that October in '99 when we came up here, and I hadn't thought much about the trailer. I thought I had seen it the last time we went to Greenfield, but I wasn't sure. Then Saturday my mother-in-law called to say the neighbor across the street had our trailer for sale. The neighbor was asking a certain price, and we offered a little less. She called back later to say it was ours for the picking up. Sunday we made the trip to fet...
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