Comes Around

I've been getting up early fueled by the wonderfully cool mornings. The season has changed. I can smell it in the morning. Each new season grows from the leftovers of the past.

Yesterday I heard first and then saw a huge "V" of geese. I wonder how long they have been flying and where they are traveling from. Canada, I suppose. But they are home now for the winter. It's official. Funny, I remember back last year, early November I think. I wrote about the same geese, but from a different prospective. I was a completely different woman a year ago.

So much has happened between the geese.

Monday hit pretty hard today. Not that my every day is a not a Monday with working 7 days a week. But for the first Sunday in many months I shut down the shop. I woke up whenever I wanted which turned out to be 6:30 instead of 6. Grabbed my paper and flipped some eggs in my new seven inch skillet. I took my bounty to the brown leather chair and enjoyed a Sunday morning with Joel O, the way it used to be. It's Nathan's 28th birthday. I'm going to take the road trip to Whittman to spend a few hours with the kids and grand kids. I loaded the truck with hastily bought gifts for everyone, a weeks worth of work for Nathan and Nik and a couple of racks of ribs. Emma greeted my arrival in her adorable "Emma way". Her face lights up and she runs into my arms. She has so much to say and so much to show me. I parked on the couch with fussy Jacob in my lap and Emma by my side explaining the ways of life. After a time my anxious mind started calculating work things and things I should be doing and I announced to Nik that I was going to leave to get some work done in the afternoon. She ah huh'ed me and ignored it. Nathan is cooking and the smell is intoxicating. Denise and John arrived and the friendly family chaos made me relax. I said the hell with it and grabbed a plate of food and then had seconds. Good conversation and family company put me at ease again. I thoroughly enjoyed the afternoon.