Friday, November 13, 2020

Small things in life

Hello,

 

Leroy and I have developed a great gift of talking to the other person who is not in the same room. The speaker assumes that the other will hear and understand. It goes something like this, “Where is the salsa?”

 

Responder from two rooms away says loudly, “I can’t hear you!”

 

The speaker might try again louder or might even move closer to the listener. Even though closer, the speaker might still talk more loudly than usual with a touch of exasperation.

 

This afternoon we drove to a park that is still in our city, but has a nice walking path. Even though this park does not have as many trees as the one in our neighborhood, it was disheartening to see so many trees that were down. Many of those standing are marked with a large orange X which means they will be taken down. We did not think to take a picture, but there was one giant root mass that seemed almost a perfect circle. This root base comes out of the ground and just rests in defeat surrounded by green grass embedded in the clinging soil.

 

Leroy is looking at all of the postage stamps that he has from Sweden. There are so many that he is thinking about getting a stamp album just for them. “More?” I wondered.

 

“Well, I do not have an entire room devoted to stamps,” he said. in defense of his wish to increase his stamp holdings.

 

One of the guys in the stamp club has just such a room. How on earth would we move that?

 

Paula

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