We take Kalib to breakfast; Cars and snowmachines, ravens and airplanes
Monday, March 15, 2010 at 4:00AM ;)
The check that I had been waiting for finally came yesterday, so I decided to take Margie and Kalib to breakfast at Mat-Su Valley Family Restaurant this morning. From Friday night through Saturday night, Kalib was pleasant, happy and in good spirits.
Today, he seemed a little down and out. I think he surpassed his tolerance of being away from Mom and Dad. He did enjoy helping Grandma to sweeten her coffee.
;)
He also seemed like perhaps he was coming down with a cold. Still, he did go exploring beneath the restaurant table.
;)
Margie shared her breakfast with him, but he didn't eat much. He did drink most of his cranberry juice. Despite having received my check, I still paid for breakfast with a credit card. The money will not be in the bank until tomorrow and I did not want to suffer an overdraft charge for breakfast.
We do have a big auto-bill pay tomorrow. We will rush the check over in the morning, but I do not know if it will show in time to save us from whatever penalties the bank will be delighted to charge us.
;)
Just before we left, I saw Melanie, not my daughter but the Melanie who works at IHOP, with her son Duncan. When he was just a baby, I photographed the two of them at Carr's.
;)
After we got home, I went for a walk. Many cars zoomed by me.
;)
In just two months, these bare trees will burst out in new green. Given how warm it has been this winter, the leaves might come out a little earlier than the normal mid-May.
But then April could be cold, so who knows?
;)
Snowmachiners passed by on the left.
;)
Two ravens flew overhead.
;)
So did this airplane.
;)
It has been a long time since I have cut through Serendipity, just because it depresses me so. But today I did. I stress again - I hold nothing against anyone who lives in Serendipity, but if you once had a place where you retreated every day that you were home, just you and your dog, to hang out with moose, bears, ravens, eagles and if you rarely ran into another person in that place and then one day they tore your woods down and it wound up looking like this and you could find no solitude there, it would depress you, too.
;)
When I returned home, Kalib was waiting at the window for me.
;)
Kalib and I.
;)
Even though he now has one of my old fish tanks and gets to feed fish every day, Kalib always wants to feed the fish when he comes out.
He insists that his grandma come out and observe.
;)
In the early afternoon, he carried his little stuffed muzzy to the car, along with his Grahamn Krackers. Uncle Caleb buckled him in and then Margie drove him home to Anchorage.
She said that she was not going to be gone long, that she would just drop him off and then come straight home. I have heard this before and I did not believe her. She stayed in town for several hours.
She reported that Kalib's mom was so anxious to see him that she came out the door even before Margie could out of the car.
Kalib was also overjoyed to see her, and Dad, too.
As for Margie, she looked very dejected when she got home about seven hours after she left.
"I sure miss Kalib," she said.
I have a great deal to do this week. Once again, I must push the blog to the back of my priority list. I will post every day, but lightly so - unless something happens that I just have to go all out on.
Reader Comments (4)
Solitude is harder and harder to find...every time i see corporations wanting to develop what little unspoiled land we have i get depressed . I guess that is what we Humans do, spread out and take over :(. I hope Margie gets to spend time with Kalib again soon
i live in juneau and we have salmonberries and a may tree that are starting to leaf out. weird. they're a month ahead of schedule.
Sad that the woods are disappearing. It's like that here, too. If they're not in a park (of which we have many, fortunately), they're fair game. And for what do we need another mall or subdivision? There's no shortage already.
Sigh...
Bill: You can't piss and moan about the new subdivision when you have as many kids as you do.