Selling: The Midlife Crisis

The Oxford Illustrated American Dictionary describes

"mid-life crisis" as an emotional crisis of self-confidence

that can occur in early middle age.

And so it did at our home back when 

my husband was in his late 50's.

As I recall, the conversation kinda went like this:

Him:: You know I have always wanted one of those.

Me:: Oh yeah, since when? I do not ever remember

you mentioning anything like that in all the years we

have been married.

Him:: Well that is because you never hear what I say.

Me:: Excuse me, I sure do, and believe me I would have 

definitely remembered you wanting 

a monster like this.

He named her Pearl.

She weighs around 800 pounds, the engine, well, 

let's just say that when it is running you are 

reduced to yelling at the top of your lungs to be heard.

When he use to ride it to work I could hear him coming from

about 1/2 a mile away. The dogs knew it was him. 

They waited at the door.

He loves that bike. They have been to Washington DC 

three times for Memorial Day Rolling Thunder,

to North Carolina to the Dragon's Tail Trail,

to the Dakotas to see Mt. Rushmore, 

to Mackinaw Michigan across "the bridge",

and numerous other places.

I have never ridden on the bike.

I do not weigh as much as Pearl does, 

but I am no light weight woman.

People say heavy folks ride on them all the time, 

I say, "Yeah and have you ever noticed just how badly

they look? I don't want to have the Jaws of Life 

called to remove me from the passenger seat."

I always worry when he is away, riding on the bike.

Now that he is sick it has become an issue of a 

weak man being able to handle something so big.

He has decided to sell it and I am glad.

I am also sad because I know how much he enjoyed this

toy. I told him yesterday that if he wanted 

to hang on to it 

another year that it was okay. 

Maybe he will get stronger and feel better. 

I think I saw a glint of happiness in his eyes.

It has been a busy couple of weeks. 

I decided to clean out the garage and I started by selling 

a chest freezer that we bought 3 and 1/2 years ago.

There was a large screen color tv complete 

with stand that was in 

perfect condition that I gave away, a kerosene 

heater that was another "freebe" giveaway.

I took 9 boxes of no longer needed treasures to 

the Goodwill and 2 large boxes of paperbacks 

to the local library. Several things went into the trash, 

and right now I am in the process or straightening up

and organizing. Our little Holden came to visit for 3 days

and grandma wasn't prepared for his bath time because 

she didn't have a wash pan big enough.

But we managed to get him nice and clean and the 

next evening we had a better game plan for his bath.

Then I had planned to start that t-shirt quilt for my 

youngest daughter, and I'm sure you are all quite 

tired of hearing me procrastinate, but there are 

2 expectant mothers who I decided to make baby 

blankets for and so I started a small ripple.

I did finish the blanket and now working on 

the second one only this next one has a 

different color scheme. I love the ripple pattern.

It was the very first pattern I learned 

when I started to crochet

Then one late evening I happened to catch sight of 

this outside my kitchen window. I ran to get my 

camera and this is what I got.

And that is about all I have to write 

about for the moment.

Hope all is well with you.

~♥~