We are home. Now I don't have to worry anymore about being stuck in southern
California during and after an earthquake. Having been in two of California's big earthquakes (Sylmar and Loma Prieta) it's one of the persistent fears
I have whenever we are traveling. An earthquake would be horrible in that crazy
over-populated chaotic traffic-jammed highway of a place even on a good
day. I also think about earthquakes whenever we drive through the Gaviota Tunnel. I quietly chant to myself, "please don't shake, please
don't shake" while we are driving through, and on the other side I'm
grinning from ear to ear. We made it!
We are home. After 17 days on the road, we pulled into our garage
with The Beatles singing "The Long and Winding Road." It just worked out
that way on the playlist of "L" songs, and it was perfect. We used to
be younger, when long and winding roads didn't completely wipe us out
and make our backs hurt. This aging stuff takes some getting used to.
We're starting to think about no more long trips, or at least breaking
them up the way we did on our journey home from the beach house. We
stayed at our very first airbnb in the pleasant little town of Ukiah.
It was a nice way to break up the trip, and there was a full kitchen.
So we could cook, if you call turning on the oven and putting in a
frozen organic veggie pizza cooking. Still, it was so lovely to have a
quiet night to ourselves.
We are home. The front and
back gardens need so much weeding. Our rain gauge showed that we had
gotten 5 inches (12.7 cm) of rain while we were gone. The weeds and
every green thing in the yard loved it. But sadly the dahlias suffered
from our absence. We weren't here to protect their new leaves from the
onslaught of slug and sow bug hunger the way we did last year. So now we are trying to make up for lost time. We're hoping they will bloom again this year.
We
are home. We are taking our early morning neighborhood walks. The
weather has been quite rainy since Thursday. We haven't even had a
chance to get out to the marsh yet to take a look around at the spring
flowers and birds there. We're planning to go on Monday when the weather
promises to be sunny. We did get a burst of bright sunlight on Friday, so I ran
out to see if there was a rainbow, and yes...yes there was. I was so
glad.
We are home.
May
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