Thursday, December 12, 2019
December is here in full swing. Mostly I've been hiding in my rooms. My rooms are: a bedroom too small to accommodate it's queen sized bed, a den too small to be called a bedroom, and a barn corner with a small wood stove. All together they could be considered a spartan man cave. I watch a lot of Hallmark movies Read books a chapter at a time. Take my pills and my insulin. Watch my wife come and go through her busy schedule. She's fun to look at. December has gotten so busy that I find myself overwhelmed. An old Tin Pan Alley song sums it up for me: "May all your days be merry- Your seasons full of cheer- but "till it's January- I'll just go and disappear- Santa may have brought you some stars for your shoes- But Santa only brought me the Blues....Those brightly packaged, tinsel covered, Christmas------Blues!
Saturday, December 7, 2019
Lucky 13
Hey friends. Merry Christmas. Time for more Delaware musings. We moved into our "downsize"
house in Delaware about a year and a half ago. It suits us fine.
Back when we lived in Maryland I used to do a lot of shopping along the Delaware Rt. 13 "retail corridor". Our old place was only 22 miles from our new place. Our new place is crazy near that "retail corridor" So now when I shop in Seaford, I'm hanging out where I used to, for the last 27 years. All this is on the Delmarva Peninsula. Rt. 13 is a north/south road that kind of bisects the peninsula. From our house we can hear trucks on Rt.13. A distant roar. We can hear train whistles
too. I like those. Our neighborhood is farms and forest and suburbia. Rt. 13 is in most places a median divided highway. In most places 55mph. There are no ramps. Just stop lights and stop signs.
And tiny towns like Greenwood, and bigger towns like Dover and Salisbury. Rt. 13 goes thru 3
states: Delaware, Maryland and Virginia. Rt. 13 is full of: hidden entrances, vegetable stands,
strip malls, Royal Farms gas stations, farm fields, forests, traffic lights, main streets in small towns.
Rt. 13 is one big automobile accident. Exactly one year ago on our wedding anniversary we were coming home from a wonderful dinner at the best restaurant in Seaford. We were sitting at a red light of course on Rt. 13. We got smashed fairly hard in the rear end. We were the last car hit in a five car
accident. Welcome to Delaware and Rt. 13. Happy Anniversary. Luckily we weren't hurt. The other 4 cars, not so lucky. Fortunately no one killed.
Now it's this year's anniversary. Wife and I went to a place in Milford we like called "Irish Eyes".
A fun time. So driving home it crossed our minds that this time last year we had a mishap.
I was telling wife that I thought the Subaru was whining or groaning especially at highway speeds.
She took the car in to the shop the following day. They found the noise: wheel bearings going bad on rear wheels. While they were at it: oil change, oil pan leak, front brakes. So: Eastern Shore Lloyd:
"you just tore up 1700 bucks". Happy Anniversary!
The day before our anniversary I went out to Rt. 13 to get wife an anniversary card. I went to seven! different places on the Rt. 13 retail corridor. The very first place I stopped was an antique store called "Antique Alley". I got her a nice old butterfly pin. I saw some tumblers with cartoon characters on them and I fell in love with them. I will give them as Christmas gifts. After our anniversary I was showing my December bride the glasses and she asked if she could have the
"Tweety bird" glass. I went through the seven glasses I had bought and found the "Sylvester" glass.
I put the two glasses on the kitchen counter where she was making lemon tarts and said: "This is a set. I got them out on Rt, 13. Happy Anniversary and Merry Christmas"!
OK. This post is way too long and I've forgotten how to write. I gotta go out to Lowes now.
Guess where that is.
LLITTY :::::+:::::
house in Delaware about a year and a half ago. It suits us fine.
Back when we lived in Maryland I used to do a lot of shopping along the Delaware Rt. 13 "retail corridor". Our old place was only 22 miles from our new place. Our new place is crazy near that "retail corridor" So now when I shop in Seaford, I'm hanging out where I used to, for the last 27 years. All this is on the Delmarva Peninsula. Rt. 13 is a north/south road that kind of bisects the peninsula. From our house we can hear trucks on Rt.13. A distant roar. We can hear train whistles
too. I like those. Our neighborhood is farms and forest and suburbia. Rt. 13 is in most places a median divided highway. In most places 55mph. There are no ramps. Just stop lights and stop signs.
And tiny towns like Greenwood, and bigger towns like Dover and Salisbury. Rt. 13 goes thru 3
states: Delaware, Maryland and Virginia. Rt. 13 is full of: hidden entrances, vegetable stands,
strip malls, Royal Farms gas stations, farm fields, forests, traffic lights, main streets in small towns.
Rt. 13 is one big automobile accident. Exactly one year ago on our wedding anniversary we were coming home from a wonderful dinner at the best restaurant in Seaford. We were sitting at a red light of course on Rt. 13. We got smashed fairly hard in the rear end. We were the last car hit in a five car
accident. Welcome to Delaware and Rt. 13. Happy Anniversary. Luckily we weren't hurt. The other 4 cars, not so lucky. Fortunately no one killed.
Now it's this year's anniversary. Wife and I went to a place in Milford we like called "Irish Eyes".
A fun time. So driving home it crossed our minds that this time last year we had a mishap.
I was telling wife that I thought the Subaru was whining or groaning especially at highway speeds.
She took the car in to the shop the following day. They found the noise: wheel bearings going bad on rear wheels. While they were at it: oil change, oil pan leak, front brakes. So: Eastern Shore Lloyd:
"you just tore up 1700 bucks". Happy Anniversary!
The day before our anniversary I went out to Rt. 13 to get wife an anniversary card. I went to seven! different places on the Rt. 13 retail corridor. The very first place I stopped was an antique store called "Antique Alley". I got her a nice old butterfly pin. I saw some tumblers with cartoon characters on them and I fell in love with them. I will give them as Christmas gifts. After our anniversary I was showing my December bride the glasses and she asked if she could have the
"Tweety bird" glass. I went through the seven glasses I had bought and found the "Sylvester" glass.
I put the two glasses on the kitchen counter where she was making lemon tarts and said: "This is a set. I got them out on Rt, 13. Happy Anniversary and Merry Christmas"!
OK. This post is way too long and I've forgotten how to write. I gotta go out to Lowes now.
Guess where that is.
LLITTY :::::+:::::
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