Mondays Missives

• A childhood best friend achieved schoolyard notoriety for being pushed backwards over a wall, doing a backflip in mid air and after falling 8 or more feet- landing upright on his feet. He looked surprised as the rest of us. He didn't so much as sprain an ankle.






• He died in a horrible car wreck in his twenties.






• I love black olives, but never, ever buy them or order them on food.






• My eldest took his six hour driving school today through Sears. I was impressed by how impressed he seemed to be at the amount of useful information he learned.






• It doesn't look like it will rain tonight- or ever again.




• The snake we saw at Holland's Lake and I couldn't ID was a Plains blackhead. They are tiny even fully grown, secretive and only lay 2-3 eggs a season so we were lucky to see it.






• Oh, so this is what it's like when when worlds collide.