Relaxing Sunday?

August 4, 2013 2238

            In our cramped slumber early this morning the rain peppered our faces with the delight of a cold beer after a hard days work in the sun.  It was the start to a very relaxing Sunday.  In the cool air actually full of a breeze both of us were able to sleep.  The rain kept the public down.

            With such a perfect morning, it was obvious today was the day to shave and do my nails.  This rugged living has been tearing them up terrible.  I am not an outdoors kind of gal.  My beard was competing with The Goat Man’s beard.  We both shaved.  He now has his standard goatee and he just looks beautiful.

            Unable to do anything on a Sunday as far as work, we walked around the park.  We saw a cute little train for kids to ride.  We stayed just long enough to ward off The Goat Man’s urge to switch tracks on the conductor riding the train.  He stood in front of the box with his hand up and that cocky grin.  I had to distract him with my good looks and sweat personality.  It was close.  The Goat Man loves his shenanigans.

            The rain came on and off all morning.  At one point we sat on a small bench under a large tree and watched the rain cleanse the earth around us and listened to children play on the tower.  The breeze swept the sweat and sticky away.  We were comfortable in our own skin for the first time in several days.  The trees and the grass were vibrant and happy with Mother Nature today.

            The waterfall shower was so appealing we both took two showers today just to feel human again.  On our way down for the second shower we ran into another homeless couple with a truck packed with their things.  They had been homeless for four months so far and came to the park every couple of days to shower.

            We reached out for help today, but mostly our phones were silent.  However, we did get an offer for a hot shower, free laundry, and a hot cooked meal in exchange for my writing help.  We quickly and graciously accepted.  It feels much better to earn what we have rather than beg for it.   We have not resorted to begging and do not plan on it.  It has just been a bad year for us.  We are only looking up.

            The only excitement today was the sniper turtle coming back to taught the dog.  The turtle was not in an attack mode today.  The bugs have been down last night and today too.  Earlier I thought it was just an answered prayer, but as I type tonight I am being eaten again. 

            The Goat Man doesn’t seem to be their target tonight.  He put his window all the way down!  As I squirm to reach the itching spots with flailing arms it did not clue him in to the attack.  I could hear the buzz in my ears, but he sat over there content.

            “I am being eaten alive!”  I reached up and pushed the window button expecting them to be down a crack.  “You had your window all the way down?”

            “Yeah” He looked so dumbfounded I thought I was going to hear “I wasn’t thinking.”  But instead he smiled that cocky smile and said, “They don’t like me.  They like your sweet meat.”  AAUUGG!

            We learned that a Buffalo nickel without a date is not worth anything!  After going through some old coins found in our things we were only able to get $3.65 in gas tonight.  We had a Canadian dollar, but the very rude woman at the 7 Eleven on the corner of US52/Hicks road refused our money.  Just an hour before we looked at coin exchanges and discovered the exchange rate was 1.51 between Canadian money and our money.  That refused dollar was worth more than the dollar gas we intended to buy.

            The very rude woman asked, how she would know it wasn’t counterfeit.  “We are buying less than $5 in gas with change!  Our truck is packed with all of our things!  Do we look like we have the money and ability buy molds, something that gets hot enough to melt the medal to counterfeit a dollar?!”  I’m just saying…