Give ‘n Take

Jan 20, 2010 by Naomi.

A few last words before I shut down my trusty Toshiba because it certainly has been one full day. Beginning with coffee and quick oats then a rushed trip to the Refuge because of a committee meeting called early. We planned our second Saturday events for the year. Would you believe our Education Center was given the skull and claws of a grizzly bear — that’s right a - Ursus arctos horribilis. An animal decidedly not on the list in any hunt season. A carcass was found, too badly decomposed for hide to be retrieved. But truthfully there is no good place to display an animal that size anyway. Besides the fact that I do not approve of making a big deal of animals that are not native although bear totems go over very well in the teepee station.

Returned library books and a trip on the sitting walker in the exercise room took a half hour. I sat/walked a mile in twenty minutes. The community center is a repository for day old breads as well and today I grabbed a red/green pepper filone. There never is any 12 grain bread nor whole wheat so I sort the hamburger and wiener buns and bagels and come away empty handed.

This ought to become a report from my kitchen window because my day begins and end there. I know who goes off to school, one group to Christian school and the walkers to public, who goes on Dial-A-Ride, which neighbor goes off the work at 530 and who gets home at 7 am. Lately the red car neighbor has been off at an early hour without the toothless man and his walker. The white balloon snow man and related holiday decorations were removed. I was able to wash dishes in daylight at 5 pm. I hadn’t realized how much longer the days are until this one clear sunny day. I think it would be helpful if a wind would come and blow all my leaves down the street. What wind did a few days past was blow oh so many little branches off poor Douglas - my big fir tree.

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