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.
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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 😊
