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Daily Archives: January 5, 2024

Resolve to Write 2024 #5

One thing about it, these titles are easy šŸ˜‰ You might get a poem today. Or you might not. Letā€™s see where this goes. So concludes the ten days of Christmas and tomorrow I will begin tearing down, bad as I hate to. Yes, I could leave it up for another month, or heck, all year, but isnā€™t that what makes things special? The anticipation and the overall looking-forward-to-it-iveness? So Iā€™ll pack it up. Sigh. Something is going on with my big treeā€™s lights, anyway, so best to get that taken down and out of here before it burns the house to the ground. I was coming down the olā€™ pike today (as my beloved late uncle called it) and I noticed a delivery type van pulling into my auntā€™s driveway. It was a little late for the mail, and I hadnā€™t ordered any packages and I figured she hadnā€™t either. As I get closer, I decide it wasnā€™t a true delivery van at all, as it was a bit worse for the wear, and not in the FedEx ā€œIā€™m in too big of a hurry to run through the car washā€ state of dereliction. Iā€™m now watching from my driveway, and the driver hasnā€™t disembarked. He pulls around the loop and to the top of the rise and throws his hand up at me. I donā€™t wave back, because I canā€™t tell who…