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Back roads with Babs

People are still having 6am yard sales so I feel impelled to continue the "early bird" line of thinking. And it paid off this morning. Johanna is still recovering from her surgery and not yet up to snuff, so she is exempt from the morning excursion. After reading my whining last week about not enjoying being alone on my adventures, Babs felt Johanna was well enough to leave alone for a few hours and joined me this morning. Sophie stayed behind to keep Johanna company and warm so it was just the two of us at O'dark thirty. Very dark and rather dewy; my shoes were soaked quickly. We were grateful for my headlight since it was so dark and the sellers didn't have adequate lighting. Babs had left her light behind so we stuck together and rooted through the offerings. I spotted the stand below and snapped it up. I have wanted to replace a plant stand I have had which was functional to some degree but not really attractive. It has been tucked a way in a corner but I knew it would need to go as...

Ten Years

September the 11th. 9/11. The Day That Changed The World.

No matter how you think about it, or whether it actually did change your life that day- it’s certainly a day that none of us will ever forget. The ghost-like figures meandering up and down Wall Street like lost boats in a sea of ash. The pieces of paper lying on the floor that could have been one person’s hard-earned work. The bent and twisted steel beams that rose out of the ground like evil skeleton hands.

I remember that morning so well. I know you may well scoff at the following dream, but the night beforehand I had a dream about standing at Ground Zero and watching a plane fly into the Twin Towers. Now, not knowing New York City that well I knew all about the Trade Center but I wasn’t sure what the buildings looked like. So I can’t remember the details of the dream, just the vagueness of a couple of planes flying into buildings in NYC. I woke up in a cold sweat, hoping and praying that the dream I just had wasn’t real or about to become so. For the rest of the morning, I sat around in my room writing about various things and listening to music. It was a sunny day outside, but I couldn’t be bothered to get changed out of my nightwear as I fancied a bit of a lazy day. Around lunch time, I felt my stomach starting to rumble and I decided it was time to eat.