Friday, September 21, 2012

The Golf Cart Lady

People that live far from heavily populated, residential areas are out there for a reason.   There are as many reasons as there are people but they are where they need to be.    They are not hermits or criminal deviants; they just have peculiar habits that have become a life style.   In the "neighborhoods", they would be the topic of whispered conversations and never invited to the barbeque.    I know.   I live on a dead end lane surrounded by trees.   My nearest neighbor is a quarter mile.   I am one of those relegated to living in semi-isolation and I love it.

So is the golf cart lady.   She lives on a beautiful sprawling acreage that looks like a set for the Dallas TV series.   A large brick ranch home with an attached cottage;  well-aged, beautiful landscaping, plenty of garage space for vehicles, fine stables with horses, freshly painted white wooden fences and three dogs.   It's the dogs that form the peculiar habit.

I first noticed it during the 5th mile of a 9 mile walk with my dogs.   Instead of walking down gravel roads, she exercises her dogs by chasing them around her acreage.   I was expecting maybe her galloping on horseback along side her dogs; or speeding along on a four-wheeler, dogs on each side.   But not a golf cart with the canopy roof bumping along, dogs running ahead.

The golf cart lady, wrangling her dogs, will always live in he country.

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