Month: April 2025

Front Porch Visitor

Worn out after food shopping, exercise and vacuuming, I parked my tired old body next to an open screen on a gorgeous day, after the landscape crew mowers & blowers were done, savoring Bourbon & Beer, while dinner warms.

And watched this Senior Citizen Rabbit cruise by and chow down on low hanging Holly Leaves in front of my apartment. And thought about how many times I read “Runaway Bunny”, long ago.

Saturday

Today, the Postman (saw him) delivered my 2026 NC Vehicle Registration. I affixed the sticker to my, as of next month, 20 year old license plate.

Thursday, following the Tuesday NC State Inspection at the Mother Ship (Hendrick Chevrolet) and a Goat Rodeo Uber pickup, had all 4 tires replaced and a 4 wheel alignment done.

Wherein Brake Linings declared “Yellow” and “May Need Attention At Next Service” on Tuesday, were declared “Red” and need immediate replacement.

So I made an Online Service Appointment to fix up all four, next Wednesday, a day ahead of my Six Month Routine Appointment with my Primary Care Provider. I am, like my Truck, getting old and worn. But I am not, repeat NOT, getting any new parts!

Midnight Ice Cream

Literally up the street from my widowers apartment, is the hardware store I was parking at, on a Saturday in 2000, when I heard “Red Dirt Girl” on the radio. The program was “Prairie Home Companion”.

I’d gone to get something needed for a long sold house, filled with children and dogs and my sweetheart. Before the scars of the inevitable.

Music, like all Art, can be intensely resonant. So 25 years later, an old man, waking from an after dinner nap, in the quiet midnight, finds solace in memory. And ice cream.