Our last day of school with the kids is tomorrow, it is only a half day at that. I can't wait for summer. We have this Memorial Day weekend holiday Monday, and then three days of post-planning. That just means boxing up the classrooms, cleaning, storing stuff, and the like. Then we're out!!
I have a stack of books I bought at a yard sale last weekend. Some legal beagle thrillers, and the Fireside Book of Best Dog Stories, a great book. There are a couple of literature books, too. (Laura Lippmann and Jodi Picoult). I also have some religious books to finish up that I bought last January.
My lecture series on Pneumatology awaits my happy ears, as does trying some new fig recipes (when the figs get ripe- now they are only a microscopic speck in the leaf's eye).
All in all, I am looking forward to a quiet time. Mornings I'll write, and study. Afternoons I'll read and nap. Evenings I'll watch Netflix. I don't plan on going anywhere or doing anything. The only excursions I plan to make are church twice a week, and the Farmer's Market once per week. And the grocery store when I get hungry. That's about it! If you have figured out by now that I enjoy peace and quiet, you basically have figured out my life. And it all begins tomorrow at noon.
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Thursday, May 23, 2013
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
My town is so small...
How small is it?
Small town life in rural Georgia is all it’s cracked up to be. My former town was Gray, Maine which at pop, 7,500, locals there dubbed a small town. That town is quite different from my small town here, which has a population of 400. Even in the unincorporated section of town the population still barely reaches 1,000. Cumberland County Maine has a quarter of a million people. Our entire county of five towns and miles of land is only 25,000. It's small.
It’s so small that: the parking spaces in front of the Post office on the main drag are vertical, not parallel. When you leave, you have to back out into the main street. It’s not a problem.
It’s so small that: On the Post Office’s Christmas busiest mailing day of the year, there was no line at the counter.
It is so small that: when you pass a vehicle on a rural road, the other driver waves.
It’s so small that the hardware store guy stands outside to chat with a buddy while you shop, and just holler when you’re ready to pay.
It’s small and it’s great. Now, usually when people move in from the ‘city’ to a small town they want the rural aspects but they also bring big-city wants with them, like sewer service, trash service, foreign films, delis, cappuccino. Then they complain when the taxes go up. Or when a charming someplace or there gets paved over. I don’t want any of that and I don’t miss it.
I was driving to an adjacent county I hadn’t visited before and in that county is a small city. Its main drag had the usual array of stores and restaurants. And there, forgotten by me for many months, was a McDonald’s! I thought back, where is the closest McD’s to where I live? This one, 30 miles away, and on the other side of the county 30 miles in the other direction. That’s it! It’s nice to move to a place where you can forget about fast food. Fast food means fast living and I guess I moved to the right place to slow down.
Small town life in rural Georgia is all it’s cracked up to be. My former town was Gray, Maine which at pop, 7,500, locals there dubbed a small town. That town is quite different from my small town here, which has a population of 400. Even in the unincorporated section of town the population still barely reaches 1,000. Cumberland County Maine has a quarter of a million people. Our entire county of five towns and miles of land is only 25,000. It's small.
It’s so small that: the parking spaces in front of the Post office on the main drag are vertical, not parallel. When you leave, you have to back out into the main street. It’s not a problem.
It’s so small that: On the Post Office’s Christmas busiest mailing day of the year, there was no line at the counter.
It is so small that: when you pass a vehicle on a rural road, the other driver waves.
It’s so small that the hardware store guy stands outside to chat with a buddy while you shop, and just holler when you’re ready to pay.
It’s small and it’s great. Now, usually when people move in from the ‘city’ to a small town they want the rural aspects but they also bring big-city wants with them, like sewer service, trash service, foreign films, delis, cappuccino. Then they complain when the taxes go up. Or when a charming someplace or there gets paved over. I don’t want any of that and I don’t miss it.
I was driving to an adjacent county I hadn’t visited before and in that county is a small city. Its main drag had the usual array of stores and restaurants. And there, forgotten by me for many months, was a McDonald’s! I thought back, where is the closest McD’s to where I live? This one, 30 miles away, and on the other side of the county 30 miles in the other direction. That’s it! It’s nice to move to a place where you can forget about fast food. Fast food means fast living and I guess I moved to the right place to slow down.
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