I am speaking here of time. It seems to be going by faster and faster, especially in the mornings. I don’t get it. I have to keep an eye on the clock, or else when I look up, far more time than I had anticipated has gone by.

In the mornings, it takes me a half hour after breakfast to get ready to go, which is prepare to leave the house. There are those things that I do that I must do, such as get dressed, brush my teeth, and put in my hearing aids. Then there is the obligatory 15 minutes that I need in order to find what’s lost, keys and wallet included.

I glance at the car clock when I am finally on my way. I am always late. I never go back if something is missing.

The evenings, make sure the horses are put away, write the day’s dispatch, again brush the teeth, and read. All take time. The difference between morning and night is that in the mornings I rush to town, and in the evenings, I rush off to bed.

Well, there were a few glitches, but overall it was a good day. It started for me with a Summer in the Park(s) staff meeting. We had pretty much figured out what we were going to do today, in Bugge Park.

It had seemed like it was going to rain, and it did, at the distance. But it did not rain in Bugge Park where we were starting our Dr. Suess week.

It went well. Mike, a kindergarten teacher, put together a bubble curriculum that the free range children just loved. This includes the use of a bubble maker, pipe cleaner bubble makers, and having the ends cut off cups and using them as bubble makers, and also, this was the big one, partially filling a swimming pool with water and bubble stuff, then putting a hula hoop in the bottom of the pool and lifting it over their heads. The fluid wasn’t viscous enough, so the bubbles broke at knee height.

And there were books, many, many Dr. Suess books.

We’ll be doing the same in Amoosement Park tomorrow. That we didn’t get rain was a miracle. It rained in Wasilla, and it rained at our end of world. But it did not rain in Bugge Park.

I worked hard all afternoon, Pete had gone and gotten books from U-Haul, so we had enough on hand for local appreciative readers.

There were two new volunteers.

Pete is now coming up the stairs. He’s turned on generator X, which means that tonight he’ll have to go and take his first shower. I will take the second shower.

I did get in a horseback ride on Hrimfara – we did all our trails. I found myself wishing for a friend, one who might share my passion for Icelandic Horses. They would come with me on rides, in part because this would be just plain fun.

Plain fun. Need more of this.

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