I know, its been over a month since I last blogged, but I was busy. December is always busy as is the first part of January. Perhaps things will get better as the new year progresses. In the meantime, there are a couple of things I need to clear up or at least make comment about.
Christmas time in a home improvement store can be quite dull unless one is working in the area where Christmas ornaments are being sold or working selling dishwashers. Dishwasher sales never cease to amaze me... dishwasher sales around Christmas, that is. When I worked at Sears, I had a customer come in just after Thanksgiving who wanted to have a dishwasher installed in a place where a dishwasher never existed before. He and I planned the installation to take place on the twenty third of December while his sister had the wife occupied elsewhere. Everything went like clockwork (I was told just after Christmas by the customer). The dishwasher went in, the workmen were long gone, the wife came in and didn't even notice until the next day when after breakfast, the wife started complaining about having to do the breakfast dishes. It was then that she was told about the dishwasher... the one she was literally standing right next to while she was complaining about having to do the dishes! The customer told me that the look on her face was simply priceless.
Other than the occasional surprise dishwasher, there's not much going on, so, those of us who have vacation time left to burn will usually burn up the rest of our vacation time. I had time to burn, so, I burned it and burned it well.
When the Lovely Miss Carol and I married two years ago, we weren't in a position to take some time off for ourselves for a few days as newlyweds are usually expected to do. We considered taking that time last year, but the cancer surgery got in the way, so this year, we planned ahead and roped off a couple of days at a delightful place about two hours west of here called the Hideaway Ranch. It was suggested to us by a friend of mine who had literally raved about the place after he and his other half visited last summer.
It turns out that there were a couple of things I had forgotten which I had rediscovered during the trip. For one thing, there is actually quiet in the world. I had become so used to the almost constant din of the freeway about a mile and a half away that I had almost forgotten that there are times when there is actual peace and quiet. The other forgotten was that there are quite a few stars, and even a glimpse of the Milky Way to be seen in the sky when it is not blotted out by the constant daylight which seems to haunt our cities. The only disturbance I had to this wonderful show overhead was that eventually the condensation from the water in the hot tub interfered with my glasses.
A minor annoyance to an otherwise delightful trip.
I spent the rest of the time left of my vacation coming back down to earth. There was some general cleaning which needed to be done at the house, resulting in a really full trash can for the trash collector. We went to Church and both remarked how well the Priest who deals with the youth in our Parish is coming along with her sermons - then the following week (day before yesterday) helped to welcome the new Priest in Charge at St. Peter's Episcopal. He seems a nice fellow, but he's so young! Carol and I spent a little extra time in the Parish Hall with the Youth Priest, letting her know that she was still appreciated.
So, we're back to the usual grind here in Allen, Texas. Back to work, back to school and back to the bills.
Back to regular blogging, too.
Be Seeing You!
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