I knew my blog was in trouble when I got home from work too tired to do ANYTHING. Luckily Steven fixed dinner.
“I’m even too tired to take Tabby for a walk,” I started to say, then realized I would always find some little energy for my dog. I wore one of my crazy old lady outfits. I supposed that technically I’m not old enough to be a crazy old lady, but I’m getting there. I wore my wide brimmed canvas hat, the bicycle shorts I wore under my skirt to work (too hot for pantyhose), and a baggy Rick Dees Top 40 t-shirt left over from Steven’s radio days.
We only went around one block. The temperature had cooled to a reasonable amount. We encountered one small boy. He was throwing some beat up looking stuffed toys onto the sidewalk in disdain while his parents sat on the front stoop. When he saw Tabby he ran to pet her, which she graciously allowed. Then she tried to sniff one of his toys, and suddenly he did not disdain it so much.
“You can’t play with his toy,” I told her, and we moved on. We heard some pugnacious barking, and I saw a pug poking his head through the railing of an upstairs porch. Tabby was not impressed, but we turned the corner before we reached that house anyways.
We got home in time to watch Them! on TCM. This is a 1954 movie about giant ants, which I had been looking forward to all day. I know, watching Cold War Era horror movies on cable television is not exclusive to the Mohawk Valley. While I watched, I drank blue Gatorade out of the glass I was given for participating in the 2010 Boilermaker in Utica, NY. One of the sponsors of the glass was Saranac beer, which of course is brewed in Utica. How’s that for a little local color? Then I sipped some herbal tea from my Ilion Little Theatre coffee mug. I sweetened it with Finster’s Honey, made in Franfort, NY.
I must say it is easier to do Mohawk Valley things on my day off. But I will persevere, because you never know. The next think I do might be just what somebody wanted to read about.
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