life returns to normal when hitch hikers leave and then you kind of miss them..

but what is normal really? life is full of enchantment. the drive to gimli was good. amy came with and we sat on the patio and made friends with rodney, who i called rocky for most of the time until he asked for paper and a pen and said, let me write down my name for you. he also added his number which was cute of him. he said he owns more movies on tape then anyone really. cam was working and came to sit with us here and there on his breaks. cam is nice to be around. rocky (rodney) ordered onion rings and i said, that's alot of onion rings for one rocky and someone at the next table smiled and repeated it to themselves. there was an elvis impersonator on stage at the festival and fire twirlers. sean doesn't like when people flood into this town in the summer, but i like it. i love when places come alive.

we sat and watched the end of a janis joplin movie on the beach where they set up the screen in the water. willow walked to the end of the pier and back with us and then played along the shore in the waves in the dark.

i love that i will wake up here tomorrow and not head back to the city for work. stay all day and into the next. and soon sean and i will take possession of the new place and fall will start to happen. we will have a woodstove and beautiful floors that dennis made from salvaged wood. winter will be nice this way. work is slow in winter and i can come out more often.

so i guess sometimes people come in and make your day really great. make you want to go to the corn maze with them or watch the janis joplin movie on the beach with them or go to the ruins with them. but they leave and you just go for a drive instead. stop the car when it strikes you to find things to stain your walls with these days. drop your keys between the house and the step and then get them out again. pretend you don't notice that the nights are getting a little colder.