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Welp ...
My time in Maryland has ended once again and it's time to head back north. Home.
It's hard to leave here, it gets harder to go with every trip. But the grass back home ain't gonna cut itself, the koi can't feed themselves, and then there are the gardens.
Without The Missus Herself's careful touch, those gardens wouldn't last. Well, they might but they wouldn't be the same.
So it's time to head home.
I love it down here, but we don't live here.
I doubt I could ever leave New England for any length of time. I know I did when I was in the Air Force, but I missed the old homeland. Not every day, but many days.
Ah well, we shall wait and see what life has in store.
There's always something to look forward to, or so I hope.
Safe travels Sarge. What's that old idiom? Home is where the heart is..........
ReplyDeleteTrue enough.
DeleteHave a safe trip, Sarge!
ReplyDeletejuvat
Made it home safely, expended a lot of four-letter word ammunition in Connecticut. The rest of the trip was excellent.
DeleteSafe travels!
ReplyDeleteWe made it!
DeleteSafe travels- at least you don't have the prospect of a bunch of snow going over the Rockies....
ReplyDeleteJB
Nope, just a bunch of morons on I-95 in Connecticut. Nothing unusual, still annoying.
DeleteI hear you. You imprint on the region in which you were raised, the rhythms and feel become part of you. As long as the humidity isn't outrageous I could br reasonably comfortable just about anywhere in the United States. Except, ironically, Vista, where I spent my first 21 years. I last visited there about 20 years ago. Streets had been rerouted enough that I got lost trying to drive through downtown. Hwy. 78/Vista Way hits Santa Fe. Make a lefr, then 2 short blocks to a right onto East Vista Way. Or, that's how it used to be. Now there are serves and what used to be Streets that you identified by what little shop was on them, not by name, are now main streets. Stuff that was new when I left had either been torn down or was graffiti covered almost slims.
ReplyDeleteI couldn't go back to my old home town, it's not very nice. I'm in love with the entire region, not just where I grew up. Having seen the world, a small backwater town in Vermont would be a living death.
DeleteSarge, I went through a big shift with the impending (and now realized sale) of my parent's place. At this point I do not know that I would ever return to live where I grew up: it is too different now (and far too expensive) and without the remaining draw family, which is getting slimmer by the year, there is no reason to go back except to visit some of the exceptional places of natural beauty.
ReplyDeleteA return to New Home? Maybe; if Na Clann (or at least some of them) stay there, it might be the next (and maybe final) location. Where we live now is interesting and a change, but outside of friends and coworkers there is no-one nearby.
Safest of travels.
Maryland and Virginia have grown on me, I could live either place. But New England is where my roots are.
DeleteHave a safe trip home, Sarge! Glad you had a good time.
ReplyDeletejuvat
And we're home ...
DeleteGlad to hear that! We (all) missed your stories! Saddle up when you get rested. We enjoy your posts, and are feeling withdrawal symptoms.! Looking forward to forward postincs as you can
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Work will commence soon.
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