A bit of frost; Lynx looks upon me as a stranger; passing games with fast truck, slow truck
Tuesday, September 11, 2012 at 2:12PM ;)
Yesterday morning, when I got up to take Margie into town to babysit Lynx, the car was frosted. Maybe it had been frosted on previous mornings. I don't know.
I dropped Margie off to babysit Lynx. Such a short time ago... two weeks?... three weeks?... these two were my daily life, but now that I am well advanced into my recovery I spend my days alone, Margie and Lynx spend theirs' together in Anchorage.
And look! He has been gone from here such a short time and already Lynx wonders who this strange, bearded fellow is? Maybe its because my beard is shorter now, and my hair, too. Maybe he thinks I'm Santa.
;)
Early on the drive home, I passed this truck on a flat section of road. Shortly thereafter, I came to a gently-angled downhill stretch. I looked in my mirror and saw the truck charging to catch up from behind. It roared right past me.
;)
Very soon, I came to another level stretch - maybe just barely uphill. The truck slowed down dramatically. I passed it. It should have been in the right lane, so I could pass on the left as the law says, but it stayed in the left and and I had to pass on the right.
Maybe it stayed in the left because the driver knew he would soon have a bit of downhill and would zip past me again.
That's what he kept doing - zipping past me whenever we reached a bit of downhill, then slowing and making me pass him when the grade reversed itself or turned flat.
The speed limit is 65. I know I have a little leeway, because a trooper once told me I have nine miles per hour leeway, but I don't use that much. I set my cruise control at 69 - maybe 70. Our Escape is very good at staying exactly on the speed it is set.
At 1:30 PM, I took a walk. I found ice still covering the more shaded puddles. I took some pictures, but now they are nowhere. They are not on the disk to my camera. They are not in my iPhone. I wonder what happened to them?
I can't say what the weather will be like here next week, but I can pretty well guarantee I will be in subfreezing weather much of the time, maybe all the time. Maybe even in snow.
After my long convalesence, I am returning to life, that's why.
Reader Comments (1)
wahhhhh.....i could use some frost. 90 here today. total steam bath.