“What people call serendipity sometimes is just having your eyes open.”
–Jose Manuel Barroso
I realize I have been spending way too much time indoors and sitting at my computer over the past few months. I do venture out to walk to the car and drive places but I haven’t been walking around outside. I think I have been avoiding my front yard because it embarrasses me. It is currently a big weed patch. We need to get the landscaping done.
Today I did venture out to the car to load up some supplies I use for tutoring. I was busy deciding where to put my new rolling carry all when I noticed a teenager making his way across my front yard near my front walkway. At first I thought he was about to leave one of those random advertisements on my door. Like the ones for yard work. I was a bit suspicious of his intentions I must say. He saw me looking at him quizzically and said, ” Is this your property?” I said yes and then he told me not to worry because he was participating in a “water gun tournament” and that he was trying to hide and surprise one of his fellow tournamenters. I watched as he finished crossing my yard and told him it was ok as long as he didn’t squirt me. He laughed at that.
I thought this was the end of my interaction with the local teenagers when I spied another one squatting down, with a water gun, between my neighbor’s house and mine. This was getting to be really fun. I said to him that I had no idea this was going on around here. He said they had to catch other kids coming from their houses to their cars. I asked if they did windows. He said, ” Do you mean they need to be washed?” I said yes and that got a little laugh from him as well.
It was a happy encounter and I realized I need to get outside in the front of my house more often. Just look at all the interesting things I am missing out on.
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It sounds like it was fun. I can’t wait for the temperature to get into the double digits so I can get out more!
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Yes we are very lucky here in Southern California.
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I just posted about it being 23 below zero here in NH. Indoors it is. 🙂
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I know. I thought about it when I wrote this that we are so lucky with the weather here, 23 below zero, yikes.
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Sounds like indeed a lot of fun:)) I remember as kids using water pistols in the summertime … It’s kind of like a water fight meets paintball in your backyard !
I’m glad you got to enjoy it:)
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Yeah. It was fun to discover a water gun tournament in my front yard. You just never know what will happen when you step out your front door. 🙂
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Sounds like fun! And what a fun tournament 😀 I am glad teenagers are getting out instead of being holed up in front of their X-box and all those other gadgets. Good going!
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It was a fun moment in my day for sure.
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What a pleasant encounter! By the way, you have kindly subscribed also to my “dead” website (i.e. famingenglish.com – without the hyphen); I was conned into buying two domain names when I wanted only one and, consequently, have never used flamingenglish.com. Luckily, the subscription expires in a month’s time, so, from April, I will have only my “regular” domain name. Thanks anyway, Deborah. 🙂
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Oh well at least I have you in two places. The flamingenglish.com is the one showing up on my stats when you comment. Phooey. I hope that does not mean I will lose the connection. Which one is the regular domain?
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The regular one, which I’m keeping, is flaming-english.com (with the hyphen); that’s where I publish all my posts. I was astounded to find that the other one had 19 (I think) followers! Anyway, I’ve already indicated that I would NOT be extending my subscription for that website, so I will just have to be patient for about a month, and then it will simply disappear – cannot wait. All the best, Deborah.
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