We seem to be stuck in the 50’s with clouds every day. No rain is predicted, just those clouds. At night, it gets chillier, sweatshirt chillier.

Today I have a concert. It always amazes me that I can play a musical instrument. No one in my family plays. None of my friends played. The closest I got to making music was the triangle in the rhythm band when I was in the second grade. I wanted the sticks, but I didn’t have a choice so I got stuck with the triangle. I have wind chimes in my yard. When the wind blows, the chimes make the sweetest sound. They always remind me of how I fell in love with that triangle.

When I was a kid, I had adventures. I remember when my brother and I found a shack in the woods beside the field below my house. It was small. The roof was covered in a dirty tarp with holes. The door was a piece of cloth. No one was around it so my brother and I went inside. We had to crawl as the roof was so low. The floor was dirt and so was what we found. A few piles of magazines were inside. They were all Playboy sorts with naked women. We got out of there quickly. We never went back as we didn’t want to run into the builder of the shack. Much later, when we were a little older, we figured it might have been a teenager hiding the magazines from his mother. Maybe under the mattress was filled.

A chain link fence separated the project from the houses behind it which were actually on a different street. I remember a huge white house with a porch. I used to walk by it when I went to the field to pat the two horses. There was a short dirt road beside it. One day I investigated down that road. I found a neat looking house. It was small and had one floor. The front was all screened. It looked like a cottage, the sort that Hansel and Gretel found but without the gingerbread. I looked through the side windows at a living room with chairs and a couch. No one was there. I always wondered who lived there.

When I take a ride, I go down roads I’ve never been. I keep taking rights until I reach the ocean then I go left until I reach the ocean on the other side. I sometimes stop at an interesting store or to buy lunch where I’ve never eaten before. I’m always up for adventure.

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