The first Wednesday of each month, around midday, the alarm system for tornadoes gets a test run. It always makes me jump out of my skin and think about how Midwestern homes are generous with their basements and how winter leads directly to hot weather and mosquitoes and how it is either central heating or blazing air conditioning all the time.
I am selling this place short but when my neighbor mentions how beautiful it is, I feel like a scrooge. He says it is like a California day...I answer No, not really. A bit oppositionally defiant, on reflection. I could have been a bit more accepting. It is indeed a beautiful day.
I am selling this place short but when my neighbor mentions how beautiful it is, I feel like a scrooge. He says it is like a California day...I answer No, not really. A bit oppositionally defiant, on reflection. I could have been a bit more accepting. It is indeed a beautiful day.
