I hide.

I am a hermit.

I speak on a telephone with my children.

I speak to others, sort of, on the internet.

Ha

We had a blizzard up here in the great white north on the 18th.

When I say blizzard, I mean a real blizzard.

I went out that day early, because my pc told me so.

After I arrived at my homestead, the blizzard began. I mean fifteen minutes following my return the wind increased to 25-35 mph and the snow came down heavy. This blizzard lasted twelve hours. The howling was incredible, especially following a really wonderful and mild November!

Well following the onset of winter, my biggest problem is not just the cold. (under 30 most of the time)

The problem involves walking on the ice.

My fears increase every goddamn year as I encounter the winter months.

So I begin my trek to the store on foot and on the ice and I remember how to walk like a penguin

You know, Leonard Coen died recently from a fall.

I mean the guy was 80 and surely at 80 we must all die of something!

But within 3 days of the downfall, I must go to the store.

I was out of meat for two days. hahahah

Like I need meat like I need cigs. hahahaha

And I have to learn again how to walk like a penguin. hahahah

Can you imagine being afraid of walking to the store? hahahahah

Anyway, I get to the store and begin my Thanksgiving shopping tour with less worry about cost than volume.

I mean, how much can I carry home? hahahah

So as i meander through the aisles, I see Suzie. Suzie used to live in the towers and left to live with her daughter a few blocks away.

It was 2010 and following 4 years of nothing, I received a check from SSA for 3,000 bucks! But no bank would allow me to deposit this check because my DL had lapsed.

All I needed was about two hours and 26 bucks in order to prove who I was.

I walked up to this woman, told her my story and asked for a 30 buck loan for a period of three hours.

Suzie, who did not even know me reached into her purse and gave me 30 bucks.

Three hours later I had a bank account and a current DL. ha

HOW ARE YOU DICK?

I am fine Suzie.

How did you get here Suzie? I mean it is treacherous out there.

My car of course.

You need a ride home?

Oh for heavens sake, of course. But I will have to purchase twice what I was going to collect here. hahahah

Oh that's okay Dick, it will take me awhile to gather what I need for the rest of the week.

(There are many back stories, but suffice it to say here that I had a full load of laundry in the dryer downstairs and if I took the bus, I would have arrived back an hour or more with my clothes stuck in the dryer)

THE STORY

So, Suzie tells me about her daughter and how she came to stay with her following her residence at my towers.

It seems that Suzie's Mom had been disabled and Suzie's daughter stayed with her nana during the last years of Gramma's life.

Gramma died and left her home to her daughter.

So Suzie just quitclaimed the property to herself and her daughter.

It seems that the daughter has blossomed and become a great entrepreneur and is rich. hahahah

At some time before her daughter's ascendancy into the aristocracy. Suzie moved in with her; disatisfied with her place at the towers.

Her daughter said

MOVE IN WITH ME MOM

Now, Suzie lives in her own homestead, from birth as far as I can tell.

Her daughter is just fine and visits when she can.

This is just a story about three women who worked it out.

And Thanksgiving to me, involves working it out.

THAT'S ALL I GOT.

Happy Thanksgiving Dagbloggers.