I finally convinced him to leave me to manage the suitcases with the florescent green stickers warning that these cases surely had to be sat on to be closed (guilty) and anyone daring to lift them should without question be using those knees. However, other bags from my last dash with a car/ I have nothing but clothes and toiletries started to appear at the top of the stairs. I thanked my landlord John very much for his help and he dared me to guess his age. Joking around I threw out an age with the gift of 20 years of youth. He laughed.
“Really, come on really?”
“Sure”
“You think that I am 60?”
“Yeah really I do!”
“90!! Almost 90 can you believe it?”
“What! No.”
“Yeah 87”
Once he had finished helping me with my stuff I saw two black galoshes stride past my window. I laughed as I realized the tan line on his legs I had noticed earlier was no other than a galoshes-tan. What a view. And what he was up to was even better. He came down with a full basket of pears he had picked from one of the trees in the back-yard. He inquired if I liked pears and I shared that indeed I love pears. He said that I could pick as many as I wanted and there are cherry and apple trees out there too.
Well I thought to myself, after being treated to wonderful meals and hospitality at my old coworkers families home … it looks like I feel into something really great here. Not to mention that the Cadbury factory is so close I am sure that I will smell it and I hear that they give out chocolate at Halloween.
I am in a basement suite that John’s son and his family renovated and moved into after his wife passed a couple years ago. There are three big rooms, two of which they are renting and the other they will leave for a study/visitor room for the time being. My room is bright, bright pink with pillowy pink curtains with pearls draped across them. The kitchen and bathroom are really nice and the common room is huge with an oversized comfy couch that I feel safe curling up on. By far the best from what I had seen.
Yes little Heather thought to herself, I will learn well here!
Lots of room and pears and John for all!
- H
- I am doing my best to find the good things in my life and cherish them. I love deeply. I laugh hard (so hard I sometimes snort). I still dream and believe that dreams are meant to be followed. I try to depend on God. I have so much to learn. I hope.
1 comment:
How great - a sweet landlord, sweet pears and sweet Heather. don't over do now, rest and laugh, sleep, and...email your friends :) Love you
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