Today I had a great walk. The dogs behaved, the temperature was crisp but perfect, the wind was hiding, the moon provided great shadows and at the end of my walk the sunrise presented itself in layers of color.
But that wasn't the cool thing about the walk. Two unexpected events occurred.
The first was I heard my first frog of the season. Usually, I hear the first croak from my back porch which is just a few feet from a creek. As I'm grilling out back in the evening, suddenly they begin to sing. This year it was a morning walk.
The second event was much more startling. I encounter very little traffic at 4:30 in the morning. However, for 16 years I have been doing a little dance with Paperboy. He drives in and out of lanes and up and down the gravel roads that my dogs and I walk on. Always low beam, always slows down. I don't know if it has been different vehicles throughout the years or different people but in my mind it is one character...Paperboy.
This morning we had a breakthrough...a new type of encounter. Paperboy stopped, rolled down his window and said, "You sure walk a long way in the morning." I was shocked and didn't know how to respond. I mumbled, "Tryin' to stay out of trouble".
It's been 16 years and the walker who considers himself a wordsmith says, "Tryin' to stay out of trouble".
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But that wasn't the cool thing about the walk. Two unexpected events occurred.
The first was I heard my first frog of the season. Usually, I hear the first croak from my back porch which is just a few feet from a creek. As I'm grilling out back in the evening, suddenly they begin to sing. This year it was a morning walk.
The second event was much more startling. I encounter very little traffic at 4:30 in the morning. However, for 16 years I have been doing a little dance with Paperboy. He drives in and out of lanes and up and down the gravel roads that my dogs and I walk on. Always low beam, always slows down. I don't know if it has been different vehicles throughout the years or different people but in my mind it is one character...Paperboy.
This morning we had a breakthrough...a new type of encounter. Paperboy stopped, rolled down his window and said, "You sure walk a long way in the morning." I was shocked and didn't know how to respond. I mumbled, "Tryin' to stay out of trouble".
It's been 16 years and the walker who considers himself a wordsmith says, "Tryin' to stay out of trouble".
Add dork to the resume.
This post makes me smile. I like thinking about the Paperboy character.
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