Sun Rise

The sun came up all hazy this morning. It was bright enough and turned the sky all pink and orange as it came up over the stand of cedars at the end of the drive. Next door, Heather and Earl’s place is all quiet and dark, due to the fact that they’re away to bury Heathers mother who passed this last weekend. On the other side, Dewy and Ham took their mobile home down to Oregon City to the end of the Oregon Trail. Ham was meeting up with her brother’s family from Missouri who had spent the month of September following the trail from beginning to the end. So that just leaves us on our little spur, for the most part.

Spent the past weekend getting the last of the tomatoes off of the vine and putting the garden to rest. I must have harvested around forty or fifty pounds of them this season and that was just off of three plants. I guess I found a good place to grow them around here, near the back of the garage away from the wind where they sit in the sun all day. I’ve been giving them away to just about everyone I know since I filled my freezer with about 30 pounds of them. Yesterday, Corlis’ mom brought us over some spaghetti sauce that she made out of the ones I gave her and we had that for diner last night.

Things are slowly getting back to normal around the singlewide. Ike’s been working hard in therapy trying to get his strength back after the hip surgery and yesterday had a real good day working with his hands. The older boy started his reading group this week and though I think he had approached it with some trepidation, he told me yesterday that the lessons were actually fun.

The end of the year is nearly upon us. Hard to believe that in just two more months we start it all over again. Ike had his two-year anniversary of his liver transplant this past week, the site had it’s five thousandth visitor, Sweeties eyes are on the mend and the old cat is hanging in there.

The 402 reluctantly turned over as I set out for the mill this morning. In that hazy pink/orange sky, my breath making little ghosts and the car windows all wet with dew.

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