I planned Tuesday around my trip to town. With school starting, I wanted to leave during a specific window, to avoid the bus-waiters right after dismissal, and get out before the setting sun was low enough to blind me.
I was really proud of myself, running right on schedule, with actually 10 extra minutes of nap time before my shower. But wait! As I was heading into the master bathroom, I heard thunder! The sky had darkened! I went to the living room to see if any channels had a radar map in the corner of the screen, or any warnings scrolling across the bottom. Nope. At least not in the 30 seconds I was allowed to look, because THE SATELLITE WENT OFF!
That's generally not a good sign, you know. Rarely it's just cloud cover between the Mansion and the orbiting satellite. Usually it means heavy rain or snow. We all know that snow wasn't the culprit in these 98-degree days.
When I got out of the shower (after three scares from flickering lights), I heard rain. The satellite was still off. I called Farmer H to see where he was. Getting gas over by the Devil's Playground. I asked him to bring me some scratchers, because I didn't think going to town was a good idea. What if the rubber stopper on the end of my cane SLIPPED on the floor of the Gas Station Chicken Store? Better safe than sorry.
I asked for my crosswords, and a $10 ticket, either gold or silver. Those are the ones that are newest. Farmer H said he'd get them at Casey's on his way home, which is the other store I'd been planning on getting tickets.
The weather cleared off right after Farmer H got home. I said I might have been able to go anyway, if I had known the rain would stop. Farmer H said it had poured when he was getting gas, and then the tickets. He had called The Pony, who said there was not a drop of rain at his house.
Farmer H was playing around on his phone, and said that a drive-in theater had been destroyed by straight-line wins, in a town over past Newmentia. It's 20 miles from here. Where Farmer H sometimes goes to the auction.
I'm glad I didn't go to town. My crosswords won nothing, but the silver ten that Farmer H brought me won $30.
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