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Granny d Nanny

Clucking

Faintly... hearing Church bells chiming in the distance.  Just  b  a  r  e  l  y  hear them.  Barely.  The sound reminds me that this is where I live.  Small Town America.  Church Bells chiming during the daylight hours every hour on the hour and again on the half hour.  When chiming a song it's difficult to hear the Hymn.  I NEED THEE EVERY HOUR.  Rarely I hear the complete tune or the bonging of what hour it is.

If I'm driving the neighborhood when the chimes sing then I can hear the melody.  There's been a few times that I rolled the car window down so I could hear the music. 

It's not a distraction to me as I love music.  Controlled harmony.  The trains and the chickens are a different matter.  I cannot seem to tune these things out as if I did not notice.    

When the next door neighbor's chickens cluck farm language, I hear them.  Yesterday I heard someone clapping their hands as they rounded up the hens to go into their coop at 4 in the afternoon.  They sometimes make an escape out of their yard.  Bobbing their heads as they walk about my flower border searching for bugs.  They seem to stay together as a clan.  If the neighbors move away the chicken coop might stay behind.  Not sure, but the neighbors are heading east to Kansas City for greener pastures and this may not allow them chickens in their subdivision.  

I am city-fied as I enjoy picking up my eggs from a grocery store or from someone that sells their farm eggs.  I haven't had the passion to have chickens cluck in the back yard.  Living in the country is a different matter.  

Our Grocery Store is returning to the area.  PRAISE GOD.  A Dollar General moved in and she's a hit, but I desire a Grocery Store as well.  Small towns should have Grocery Stores.  I can visualize a SONIC beside the DG.  A pipe dream.   

It's quieter here today on the prairie.  Just a little breeze that rattles the Dining room storm window.  The Dining room is presently being used for a Family room where the television sits.  I have a desk in here along with a small buffet as our actual Dining room furniture is being repaired after our house fire over at the rock house.  We are cramped at RETIREMENT COTTAGE.  Cramped.  It is going to take some time to downsize some more to fit in comfortably.  A tight squeeze.  TIGHT.  Did I say tight?  Yes, t.i.g.h.t. 

It is beginning to bother me that our belongings are in hiding elsewhere at the hands of another.  When the furniture is finished being repaired then we will return this room to a Dining room.  The Doll furniture in the front room will have to be moved to another part of the cottage as the television will be in the front room once again with our comfy chairs we use in the evening.

Yesterday I could hear a constant buzz in the air as the company across the railroads tracks were working at crushing rock.  Occasionally birds chirped as the weather was like SPRING.  Gloriously. 

Today another NICE Spring-like day?  Grey skies.  Cooling down a tad.

I am about to get my walking shoes on and take a walk around the block.  I remember when I was a young child one of the neighbor ladies walked the neighborhood with her arms behind her back with her hands clasp as she looked down at the grass growing in the yards.  She was getting fresh air and time to stretch her legs.  She lived alone and I no longer remember her name.  I can see her in my thoughts.  Mrs. ?.  

She was faithful to take her walks.  No head banging for her.  No tattoos.  Slow walking.  

I told my Husband the other day that if I had the money I would buy my childhood HOME and live there.  He doesn't have the desire to live in LIBERAL, KS again.  I think I could.  It wouldn't be the same, but I think the house is tiny enough that we wouldn't have hardly any utilities to pay.  A get away house.  My age is showing.  The desire to take things slow and breathe are acting up.

After reading that a childhood friend's Husband had been in a bad auto accident, went into a coma and had died, I sighed.  I kissed my Husband.  Life is a gift and each day we are to do what we are to do.  At 61, my doings have changed a great deal.  It is an ongoing adventure, but I am not completely ignorant as to what I am to do.  LIVE.  

I need to get around, make the bed, get dressed, eat some cottage cheese.  I have a full afternoon lined out.  Slowly the things in the house that need relocated to another area are needing attention.  We will have to get a storage unit lined up as we prepare for our belongings to return to us from being cleaned and fixed from the house fire.

Being real and being prepared are part of getting on with LIFE after a house fire.  The things that can be cleaned will be and then returned.  I am still struggling with all of this.  It really happened.  Not a dream.  It is the new norm that has taken shape as we recover from destruction.  I have hopes of moving forward.  This type of downsizing is not recommended.  It is awful.  Being at peace that no one was killed, injured or hurt is a process as well.  It is an ongoing process that sinks into my soul a little at a time.  

With our insurance policy the company try to rescue what they can, clean it, repair it before having it replaced.  READ your insurance policies and see if it says this is the procedure they follow.  REPLACEMENT should be in the policy.  A very worthwhile thing.  REPLACEMENT.

When we are replacing furniture we are to replace the furniture with like kind and quality.  Still looking for Living room furniture and bedroom furniture.  We lost an antique bedroom suite with mattress and box springs.  Our Master Bedroom suite is being repaired.  The mattress and box have been replaced.  Another double mattress and box will have to be ordered.  My Husband's Grandparents Bedroom Suite is being repaired.

It's an on going process that takes a lot of brain cells to deal with.  Emotional health and physical bodies have to be nursed.  The spirit is real and should not be ignored.  Eat lots of veggies and drink purified water.  

Don't forget to take your vitamins and pray,
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