His tiny knotted heart

Posted on by Shawshank
Well welcome to Saturday. We made it. It's supposed to be a nice sunny and somewhat hot day here in TinyTown. I don't know what's going on today. I'm either going to be helping make some jam, or going into town. It hasn't been decided yet. 

Right now, it doesn't matter, as I'm drinking coffee. Shady Acres is all awake, dads working all weekend out of town, so it'll be a little low key here this weekend. Well, so far it's been pretty busy. I just made 10 jars strawberry jam. Not very hard at all. Just a bit of prep, stirring, and waiting for it to boil. I got the family secret 'Slappy' recipe, and we'll probably make that tomorrow. 

10 happy little jars of strawberry jam. Literally only took maybe 20 minutes. So hopefully they taste good. Now, we're on our way to another town to pick up some groceries, and some meds for my grandmother. A 1/2 hour jaunt into town. 

Hayyyy

Twelve men broke loose in ’73

Posted on by Shawshank
So last night, I said good night to The Editor, watched the end of ‘Chopped’, and figured ok, let’s go read a page or two, and go to bed. Wishful thinking. 
 

 

I read maybe 4 pages, and my mind said “hey dipshit, you should clean”. And clean I did. I organized my books as you can see there, put all my papers in my trusty ole Manila envelope, and then I thought that I was finished. Nope. 
 

 

I then figured that I should finally build the LEGO set she sent with all my clothes. I thinking I got it out together correctly it just looks off a little. But it’s right next to me. Finally my brain said you’re done. I pretty much got changed, went to the bathroom, and went to sleep. 11pm. I fell right asleep. 

And the river don’t sleep when the water runs cold

Posted on by Shawshank
Good morning, happy Monday everyone! Everyone loves a good Monday, don't they? I'm sitting here enjoying coffee, and waiting for Shady Acres to finally wake up. It's a Provincial holiday here so that means dad is home, and I think he has plans for use to work on the garage today. 

I helped to put that window in yesterday.  I'm not good at this stuff. I have pretty much zero experience with power tools or anything like that. I've never needed to use them. So slowly but surely, I've been using power tools. But I'm really slow with them. Apparently, my dad told my mom “he's having fun, it's nice to work with someone that's willing to learn”.

Wow, he filled that up fast! I helped to build that as well. He always over-engineers his projects. That shelf will never fall down. There's way too many screws for that to break! Same with the shelf in the bathroom that I helped with as well. Solid. Very solid. There's a couple more projects to do today, shouldn't be too hard (famous last words).

Sundown in the Paris of the prairies

Posted on by Shawshank
Another day done. About the only thing I really did today was walk down to the grocery store to pick up the local newspaper. It comes out every Friday, but I was actually busy yesterday and didn't have the time to pick it up before the town rolled up the sidewalks. 

That's Main St, by the way. Facing towards my parents house. Like I've said, it's a cute little TinyTown. I gone from not waving at anyone, to waving, not as a 5 year old in the back seat of a car to a truck driver, but just a simple wave to people driving by. 

At night though, this place seems to come alive. If you listen really closely, there's a cow that moos around here somewhere. There's lightning shows, and the sky is gorgeous. But like I said, at 6 pm, the town is closed. Minus the two bars. Sunday's, the grocery store doesn't even open. Crazy!

Flat. And straight. As far as the eye can see. But, look at them clouds. Gorgeous. I can't even say I miss the mountains. I miss the ocean I think. But now that I am thinking about it. The ocean is kinda overrated. 

I hear cows. Don't laugh. I'm not crazy. I heard me last night, and it was very quiet this evening, and I heard them again. I think they're somewhere in the above photo. I will find these damn cows. One day. Mark me.  I'll find them.