I awoke remembering a morning 19 years ago. My alarm had gone off but there was momentary radio silence and then the DJ said something about one of the twin towers being hit by a plane and that it had just collapsed. I honestly thought it was a joke but jumped out of bed to turn on the news and watched in horror as the second one collapsed. The day was surreal as even at work at Mouat’s on Salt Spring customers and staff alike kept migrating to the furniture department in the basement to watch. It seemed that anything was possible, there was no more fairytale of safety on the North American continent. As a Human I was afraid for all of us, as a Canadian I wanted to curl up in my blanket of niceness and pray no one would notice us.
As I was up early I got ready and headed out to find the deer had eaten all they could reach outside of my fence, a single sunflower and a green tomato. For some reason the wee cherry tomatoes remain untouched. I settled at my desk before 8 and was pleased to look up to find Rae there with Sawyer. School start times have been challenging for her with all four in school now and three different start times. I got good hugs and he signed in on our Contact tracing form. Pretty good for 5 I think. I also received a package with an effect machine I was waiting for as well as one of my favourite movies that Diane had not heard of. Can’t wait to watch Brave Little Toaster with her!
Had a pretty productive day and when I got the text from my friend whom I know from Salt Spring that she was in town and was ready to meet for dinner I shut it all down and headed out. Darcy and Geraldine live in Camrose, if I remember right, and are heading to see her family in Summerland. They decided to cone this way and it was so nice to catch up over a nice meal at the Fire Hall. It still amazes me how connections happen over shared places and people. It is always good to speak fondly of lost friends and Bear’s memory was with us. After dinner I took them on a tour out round St. Eugene Resort and through the road construction lol. I really am pleased they came this way and met up. It was funny as she reads this once a week and hasn’t caught up so occasionally a sentence would be preferenced with , “this week on a day in the life..”
Safe travels!
triumphgal 