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Summer, 2023
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It's here. It was here, really, about a week ago, but the past couple of days it's really settled in. 30 degree weather, sunny days, cool nights, every tree now in full leaf, it's going to be a glorious summer. Only it's about 6 weeks early, but after the winter that seems really to be a trifle.
But I wonder, 30+ degrees May 15, what will the end of June bring? Fire season? +40 degree weather? Already the drive home is interrupted by emergency alerts and evacuations for Northern BC. Fires, burning out of control, Dawson, Stoddard.Creeks...
And the nights, cool breeze and scintillating stars and you wonder if she's taken the time to see the same...
Garage Sale Season Begins
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The season begins. One advertised, but driving around I find a few more. This morning's treasures:
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A miniature accordion, a "holy toast" miracle maker, ...
Quite possibly the worst piece of devilish wire-wrapping I've seen. And I've done it.
And, finally, the one treasure of the morning:
a case with 2 gameboy advances, 2 chargers (one for the car), and 49 games. $40.00.
Somehow I thought the kids would be a little more excited by this one, the nostalgia and all, but I have yet to have a nibble. In any event I won't have lost any money on it...
Shot in the head...
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News from the thrift shop, that a former clerk, beautiful young woman of 36, was shot in the head by her boyfriend.
I'd read about it in the paper, no names so didn't guess who it was, nobody knew but eventually the truth percolated out. That's the thing out here, you're only ever one degree of separation from the news.
Apparently, still in the hospital, 'recovering', although what recovery is like from a gunshot to the head remains to be seen. Perhaps lucky it wasn't fatal, but only perhaps.
Spring
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Somehow, as if overnight, in fact most probably overnight, rain, long overdue, and the lake comes up - to it's normal level, a meter at least, flooding fast, all the creeks are overflowing and miracle of miracles, every tree has turned bud to leaf, it's green, spring is here, rhododendrons and the dandelions and cherries have all blossomed, on Baker a fleeting hummingbird dances past the windows of John Ward. Spring.
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