I had planned on spending
time with friends at Oak Point this afternoon, but as I was finishing up my
makeup, I got a phone call – David was driving to the Beach to pick up a
fish order and was wondering if I’d like to join him: (((YES!))) and
thank you 😊
D: “Hey, what’cha doing?”
Me: “Getting ready to drive out to Oak Point; why?”
D: “Is that something you can change? I have to
drive to the beach, and I could use some company; wanna come along?”
M: “Sure … I could do that – a drive to the beach
sounds fine.”
D: “Okay; see you in a few minutes.”
I
had been hoping to get to the beach before the weather turns, and this call was
a golden opportunity. I had time to get my hair done before the doorbell rang.
My new friends out at Oak
Point would just have to understand when I explain about today’s no-show.
When David picked me up, he jokingly
teased, “Aren’t you ever home?” And I replied with a smile, “Not if I
can help it” (I have every day of the week booked with out-of-house
activities) 😊
I asked him to drop by Pam’s house so I could give her the salad greens she would be making supper salad with – I was supposed to go out there around 1’noon to visit and stay for a fried chicken supper with her and her family, but since I didn’t think I’d be back from the Beach by 1 PM, I needed to tell her that. David drove out there, and Pam understood.
We did the loop drive (going
in the back way, and coming back home driving the scenic highway way) past
houses, side roads, restaurants, ect. … we did mental kickbacks, and shared our
separate memories about spending time at each place; these are milestones in
our lives – the crazy wild time of youthful teen years spent at the Beach, and
in all the little hamlet towns in between: people we knew lived in the houses/grew
up in those houses, and got married in those houses – and we played ‘remember’?
Stopping for a sandwich in Longbeach, David pointed to a building across the
street with fancy-stained glass windows, and said, ‘That used to be a
pretty nice restaurant; now it’s a Hotel’. When we drove past Doug and Steve’s
Grandma’s old house in Graysriver, I asked David if he ever sees anyone from
our old crowd, he said, ‘I saw so and so recently, and my son works with
them now’: I told him that ‘Bob’s niece’s ex-boyfriend’s father is married to
so and so … so, in a half-assed way, Bob’s sister and her daughter is kinda-sorta
related to so and so’. Leaving Graysriver, we reminisced about his Aunt
Susie’s property on Fossil Creek Road – I remembered David married his
first wife, Marla (my best friend as long as she walked this Earth; our kid’s
grew up together – and later when she had her second son, my granddaughter
spent time with him when she came to visit. I miss her ☹), in his Aunt’s house (Bob and I went to the
wedding); David told me about all the summer’s he would spend there while
growing up. He said that Graysriver is his happy place – it holds a lot
of good memories for him; and I told him that I feel the same way (I
make the drive from here to there every week, as long as weather permits and
the KM is not sliding).
We got back to Longview a
little past 1 PM, so I could still drive out to Pam’s and enjoy time spent in
the country with good friends 😊
David and Pam & Frank
are friends from my youth and teen years. They were quick to circle the wagons
around me after Bob’s graduation to heaven: and they stuck. Spending time with
either (today, I got both!) is a blessing. I’m glad Elohim made time for
both today.
And I got to experience a
bit of wild life during the beach trip (frozen tuna and youthful memories),
and again, out Cold Creek after Supper 😉
While chatting on the patio
with Pam and the guys, a doe and her yearling fawn dropped in for a quick bite,
too 😊
And, while watering my
thirsty outside plants after I got home … I spotted my furry friend, trying to
blend in with the neighbor’s sideline fence.
Today was a good day 😊
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