tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91430932419416359182024-03-05T15:21:19.146-08:00Growing Wild on Waverly Lanegrowing wild on waverly lanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15222930522676348641noreply@blogger.comBlogger115125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9143093241941635918.post-30010028044846883692016-01-29T08:08:00.000-08:002016-01-29T08:08:30.970-08:00OLD MAN DOWNOn Wednesday morning, Husband rushed me to go to the store for necessities before he went on his truck-driving mission for that day. We were leaving Food Lion and putting groceries in the car, leaving Husband to put away the cart. I got in the passenger front seat and heard him calling my name urgently. Looking back, I spied two legs flailing and none of the rest of Husband. I got out and rushed to help him up and tend to his injuries along with two young men who saw it all. They were very helpful and advised he ice everything, these competent helpers who were not born when I got my last paycheck.<br />
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growing wild on waverly lanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15222930522676348641noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9143093241941635918.post-20072127104150225872015-11-05T06:43:00.000-08:002015-11-05T06:43:20.124-08:00THE FALL OF 2015It has been a wild time on Waverly Lane this year. Long existing as a placid repository of peace and well-being, our little island of ordinary acts and Stepford propriety has been unduly pounded by ill fate and misfortune. I suppose our time was due if you have a math mind. <br />
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One strapping healthy neighbor had five by-passes. Another long time friend and neighbor suddenly developed irrevocable heart problems and died. A lady who lived among us for years died at age 99. And then the insidious finger of fate chose our family.<br />
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growing wild on waverly lanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15222930522676348641noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9143093241941635918.post-78036592926176891852015-09-03T08:45:00.000-07:002015-09-03T08:45:25.709-07:00FLOWERS<br />
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growing wild on waverly lanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15222930522676348641noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9143093241941635918.post-33445189136577430122015-08-03T10:18:00.000-07:002015-08-03T13:08:33.028-07:00DEPTH OF WATER<div style="text-align: center;">
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Husband's chum since forever lies terminally ill in a local nursing home. They shared escapades that are folk lore in our family get togethers, Husband always capping the event with a funny story of their antics. Sidney, a.k.a. "Prunes," telephoned husband every day to chew the fat. Husband saw to it that Prunes got property for his home across the road on Waverly Lane. <br />
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After many years at their respective jobs, each retired and took small jobs driving for a seafood business in a neighboring county. They mutually fussed over the trucks, keeping them in good working shape and made a little money to boot.<br />
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All his life, Husband was friends with black people, playing for a while in an all black band (minus one). He and Prunes agreed to disagree on that and never discussed the matter. Being basically good, Prunes could never shake the animosity he felt for his fellow black human being. These things get handed down, I believe, and we did not hold that weakness against him while at the same time being a little sorry for his attitude. <br />
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Mr. Gene Goin and Mr. Lowery Hudgins helped him celebrate and enjoyed the day.</div>
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"What is apple skin made of?," my seven-year-old daughter asked as we motored cross-country in our venerable Volkswagon bus complete with pop-up tent camper. It's just another part of the apple," I supplied reassuringly knowing she was nursing a fever from a cold.<br />
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Husband received an unpleasant surprise in the mail after all his contorted convolutions with Verizon, the telephone company, not Verizon, the wireless company. I heard mighty cursing from our little dingy dark den full of cats, and wanting to spare the cats further corruption let them outdoors. It appears that when he sought to change his telephone setup to lower his bill, he incurred charges, $297.00 worth of charges. The temperature soared in our little den, which is electrically heated so whoopee a bit. Then the telephone conversations commenced. The script from a former blog can be cut and pasted here because it was the same. They still don't know who we are or why we'd be complaining about a large bill. Thank you, Sam, you own my sanity and I'd be defenseless without you because I'm an introvert and waiting to be smushed by the mighty foot of corporate-clandestine savagery.<br />
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After much wrangling, Husband agreed to pay a small fee to return to his old setup with all parties. Has he learned his lesson yet? I hope so. Jumping on something because your friend, or a relative of your friend, says so is dangerous. We can only hope that those folks aren't around when the decision of whether to disconnect my life support is made. For that I rely on daughters #1, #2, and #3. <br />
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Back to normal, we await the arrival of Granddaughter's cell phone, which must not be activated until we phone daughter #2, Aunt Diane, who will then change the number to match granddaughter's old number. Oh Dear Lord, how did it all come to this? That number in the Bible, which is supposed to identify us as individuals before the end of time...was it a cell phone number? And why does FedEx not recognize our address as deliverable? Corporations are people too, my friend. That is extreme baloney, or perhaps Supreme (Court) baloney. I hate to get political on my family history blog, but there you have it. We studied in school that monopolies were bad things, and American workers were good things. What changed? Around here we have Walmart and Food Lion supplying majority needs. Only 50 years ago, my parents owned a grocery store and made a living.<br />
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If we seriously ask ourselves these questions we will be labeled as job-killing, baby-killing, and unAmerican. I could live with the America of my youth, like most people; but when America becomes as concrete-block stratified as it is today, some folks are going to be talked into supporting bad stuff. We all fit that. Still, big business is one thing, public ownership of this country is another and we all share an ownership of our nation by the very act of paying taxes. To say that the helpless and unemployable in this country have to pull themselves up by the bootstraps is inane. There has to be public charity or aid. That and public education are the most hated policies by the seriously rich. The seriously rich also want wars and who better to fight them than the uneducated children of the modern vulgate. <br />
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Here I would just like to vent about Husband's lifelong commitment to his friends and everything they recommend. Having written those words, I have momentarily experienced a gag reflex.<br />
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In order to fit in with his friends, he has: bought into a pyramid scheme; voted for George W. Bush; pulled all his teeth in favor of dentures; and bought a John Deere tractor with all the trimmings; sold said tractor with all the trimmings at a discount to a friend when said tractor proved too much a challenge (hooking up trimmings; unhooking trimmings; turning on, and basically using said tractor).<br />
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With his cell phone and my cell phone on both ears, he deals separately with Verizon Wireless and Verizon, who are different companies with evidently no information exchange. The Wireless Verizon got high marks from Husband and he was a gentleman. Verizon in a plain brown wrapper was a long and darkly different story.<br />
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I usually distance myself from Husband and his telephone conversations like a happy little tortoise receding into the comfort of her shell, putting the turmoil at a safe distance. This maneuver only works when you're not in the center of the road. From the living room I kept hearing vocal escalation and a peppering of abusive tones, and, yes, cursing. This went on steadily and no apologetic tones were detected.<br />
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"Why in the he** do I need a credit check when I have been doing business with you for 30 years? I don't want to terminate my number and yes the number is available because I'm using it! I am including my cell phone via the gadget Verizon sent us. No! You don't need my social security number because you already have it. My address is the same as 30 years ago. No! Not Mathews, Hudgins. I have not a damned thing to do with Cobbs Creek"<br />
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This went on for hours, repeating the same information and cursing loudly. After all this, the new setup is revealed to be incompatible with the heart monitor and has to be returned. Concern for his health was real, he was so overheated. "When I'm dead," he pleaded, "get rid of that damned land line!"<br />
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<br />growing wild on waverly lanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15222930522676348641noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9143093241941635918.post-79321278093657520952014-07-08T06:09:00.002-07:002014-07-08T06:09:10.173-07:00EVENING VISITORLast evening I left food for Leo the cat on the deck since he wanted to spend the night outside. It wasn't ten minutes before I saw a strange black and white visitor at his bowl.<br />
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Container strawberries need less space and send our fewer new runner plants.</div>
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They are firm and yummy.</div>
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The cuttings I took from CBW's beautiful bush are blooming now.</div>
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Tomatoes, peppers, basil, cilantro, and cucumbers.</div>
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Roses bloom...</div>
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The view is fantastic...</div>
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