The rain was pouring down in buckets.
The familiar looked unfamiliar through the sheets of water.
I had driven these roads hundreds of times before.
I was driving the roads that take me home.

Water was rushing down the streets like a river.
It would be beautiful if I was not the one driving.
I would have liked to stop and watch the rain.
I would have liked to stop and watch the water moving with a mind of its own.

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I had to drop something off to my friend.
She was expecting me.
I will be in the garden, she told me.
She has a massive garden, which feeds her family.

I had a full day.
When one thing is delayed, it sets everything back.
It was that kind of day.
I sent my friend a text to let her know that I would be a bit late.

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This year, I bought my hanging baskets at another place.
I have passed this greenhouse whenever I am in the place of Amish buggies.
This was the year I decided to visit.
It was not my usual place but I was ready to try something new.

I remember the day I went to the greenhouse.
I drove there almost on autopilot.
I knew I had to pay close attention as I got closer.
I wanted to make sure I turned down the correct road.

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Did you ever just get in a mood?
There is nothing wrong.
Nothing can you can think of.
You just feel out of sorts.

Perhaps there is a sense of restlessness.
Perhaps there is a sense of confusion.
The feeling cannot even be described.
It is there, unnamed.

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I am waiting for my new granddaughter to arrive.
She was born one week and one day after her due date.
Everyone is in love with her.
Her cousin is fifty weeks older than her, which will make playing together quite fun.

I am waiting for my son and daughter-in-love to come over.
My son is home with his wife for a few more days.
They are getting out of the house and taking a drive for a change of scenery.
They will stay for dinner.

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I was washing the apples that I had just bought at the grocery store.
I bought a bag of apples.
I knew that the bowl in which they are usually kept was empty.
I reached in the bag and washed each one, placing it in the bowl.

I was not counting them as I put them in the bowl.
After they were all nestled in the bowl, I counted them.
I counted them again.
There were only eleven apples, when I thought there would be twelve.

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I remember the house.
I could look up through the woods and see their roof.
It was comforting to know they were there.
We both built our houses; they stayed in their home, while we moved again after ten years.

Our husbands worked together.
We became friends and still get together for breakfast as often as we can.
Our children went to school together.
Their two daughters and my two older daughters were friends.

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I remember Mr. B.
He was married to a dear friend of my mother.
We often visited them on a Sunday afternoon.
Since everything was closed on Sundays, many people spent the day visiting.

Mr. and Mrs. B lived in another state.
To me, as a little girl, it was so far away.
In reality, it was just over the bridge.
New Jersey seemed so far away when you are little and cannot see out the car windows.

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I can still see my mother take the blue card out of her wallet.
I did not know it then but it was a credit card to her favorite store.
All I knew was that the blue card went into something that looked like a giant stapler.
A paper with three parts was placed over her credit card.

The lady behind the register pushed down on the handle.
She opened up the giant stapler-like thing and took out the three part paper.
Numbers magically appeared on the paper.
She handed it to my mother, along with a pen, and asked her to sign.

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My daughter-in-love and I spent the day together.
We had a few things things planned.
Lunch was shared at a place we both enjoy.
After lunch, we went to a store that she had never been to before.

There are so many things to look at in this store.
Country signs, tinware, arts and crafts, and picture frames among other things.
She was thrilled with all the selections.
We enjoyed walking up and down the aisles.

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