PORCH PONDERINGS

Bike Ride

Today was a great day for a bike ride. Tomorrow is promising to be warmer. I did all the chores early. Water the garden, since the irrigation is now being contrary. Wash the towels. Wash the sheets. Wash a set of curtains. Then make lunch. Do the dishes. Whew. I decided a bike ride would be nice.

So I went through the neighborhoods, down toward the river. The Musselshell is down, very low right now. We have a nice little walking path. It runs along the river, then I jog off and go through the fairgrounds. I pickup the 4-H road and go back along 1st Ave. Hmm. What is going on over there? I detoured for a moment. Nothing, so I cycled over to the thrift store. I try to check the back door there on Sundays. People sometimes leave donations outside. Of course there is a sign saying 'Please don't leave donations when we are not open'. Nothing there for once. I cycle on. I want to see if a friend is home. Nope. Her RV is gone, so she must have gone camping to Harlowton, like she said the other day. I'll catch up with her tomorrow.

I rode by a home that just a week ago had a sign in every window. 'no trespassing' 'beware of dog' 'private property' and on the garage 'no parking'. And by every window, I do mean EVERY WINDOW. I talked with his neighbor and she was amused by him and just a bit curious. Now all the signs are gone. Hubby claims the house now has 'for sale' signs, which I didn't see today. Interesting.

As I crossed Main Street, a fire truck screamed by. It was the tanker truck. I checked the Facebook page and there is a fire out by the golf course. Not good. We are so dry right now. Any fire not contained can be a real disaster.

Home again, worked on a little story for the flash fiction competition. I love entering that little contest. A real challenge to write 300 words or less. I also am working on the radio script for tomorrow. We are discussing the woman in Proverbs 31. I seem to be the one that drives the discussion choices. Then I work up the scripts. But since the church elected me as the communications secretary, I guess I should be the one that drives this.

So now we are settling in for the evening. On the Ovation channel, an old movie, 'Clear and Present Danger'. Pretty sure, if memory serves me well, this is an adaptation of a Tom Clancy book. It stars Harrison Ford. And I really like anything he is in. So we watch them battle the Colombian drug lords. Speaking of them, what ever happened to them? You don't hear much about that anymore.

We have another day and then hubby flies to visit family and I go to a tourism meeting. I guess tomorrow is another laundry day.