Nice Try

I had to run to the lake yesterday to get my diary and the crucial planner I had somehow left there and yes I’ll admit it: I had my bathing suit on under my clothes JUST IN CASE the sun on the deck was  warm and I could sit there for a pleasant time and catch up with myself. The day was sunny throughout the six-state region, sunny when I left home, sunny when I got back 7 hours later. The only place it wasn't sunny  was that small bit of geography where our summer cottage is. “Are those clouds up ahead?” I kept thinking as I drove farther and farther north. They were clouds all right and by the time I reached our place it was raining.Soooo I looked at my watch, grabbed the diary and the planner, turned right around and started home again and sure enough just before I crossed into my own state the sun came out.There's a rest stop right there which is really nothing but a State Liquor Store and a shed with some vending machines. It was all I needed. I pulled up in front of this picnic bench, took out my diary and my planner and the book I read in the 15 seconds between the time I lie down and sleep overtakes me and spent a lovely 90 minutes, happy among the gratefully peeing dogs and the squashed-underfoot cigarette butts. 'Bloom Where You're Planted' isn't that what they used to say in the 70s? I took that advice yesterday and it worked out great.