This morning I awakened at 3am for some unknown reason.. perhaps it was the fact that I was thinking about waking up early to see The Peanut off on his field trip, or the pain in my lower back from too much gardening.. or the call of the bathroom...but for some reason I could not get back to sleep so by 4am I was up and perusing the lack of TV at that hour (I was too sleepy to make the Comcast thing work).
By 4:30, I was frying some bacon and brewing a nice cup of earl grey tea. The Peanut wandered out, with sleepy eyes and haystack hair, hugged me and said, "I knew I could count on you." I think he had been concerned that I would oversleep and make him late for the drop-off of his big 2 nights away trip to the north to pan for gold.
It was still dark when we went out the door but by the time I dropped him off in town and waited to wave the kids off, the sky had lightened. There was very little traffic (other than the expected deer) along the road and I was reminded of the many trips my family took together. We always left at o'dark early and had breakfast a few hours down the road. I saw the sun rise many times on my trips from WV to FL. I recently discovered a couple of places in FL on the Internet. One is still up and running (and I am sure totally changed http://mermaid.weekiwachee.com/index.php?&MMN_position=1:1) and another one relegated to memories. (http://www.lostparks.com/fland.html).
I have been traveling down memory lane a lot lately for some reason.
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