Incommunicado
Aug 06 2010
We’re getting used to summer life in the states. Joe went to a week-long Boy Scout Camp at 9,000 feet in the San Isabel Mountains; learning how to rock climb, track animals, accidentally cut someone with their own knife – all the things a boy should know. While he went to camp, Mary Claire drove with the other two children to Wilton, CA for a family reunion. Since my summer teaching doesn’t end until this week, that left me home alone with the puppies – and spending most of the time filling in holes along the fence line where they had dug out (luckily Joe hid his pellet rifle).
I picked Joe up over weekend and drove him to the airport so he could join everyone in California for the reunion and the Weird Al concert. I offered him PF Chang’s and James Bond movies on Netflix if he stayed, but Weird Al won out. A funny thing happened on the way from the Scout Camp to the airport though.
I was wearing my Assistant Scout Master uniform and we stopped at a rest stop – for stop and a rest. Well, I was walking to the car and a guy saluted me! I know medical marijuana has been approved in Colorado, but I didn’t know recipients were driving the highway. The Scouts don’t even salute me, or even listen to me for that matter.
The point of this entry though is that I gave Joe my cell phone for the trip, in case of flight delays and such. Additionally, MC had the GPS. It’s not that we use the cell phone often, or the GPS, but it was odd leaving the house and knowing I was out of communication with my family. Additionally, my ATM number is secretly scrambled in my phone, so I couldn’t get cash. Gosh, I just feel so eighties.
Joe on a plane all by himself? I know he is all grown up now. So were you able to survive without your family I bet it was lonely.
OK why don’t you just forget about filling in the holes that the dogs make because you know they are just laughing at you
Let them go were they want to go as long as they come back and are not causing trouble. I think the dogs are winning and you are losing the battle of the fence.
@Pat – you need to visit to help us out!