September 15, 2013

Last month I texted a supervisor I used to work with to see if he wanted to hang out and I got no reply... in the background I could hear my mother tell my grandfather that she should really get out and pick some blackberries but it was hard for her to get motivated to get out there... having no plans I told her that I would help her out when she finally decided that it was something that had to be done... I picked up my I-Pod and went straight for a nearby bush in the backyard... after a while I remembered why I wasn't a big fan of wrestling with this thorny foe but I discussed the price of berries/jam in the store with my less than eager partner and it helped keep up the intensity.... we didn't have very much daylight left but we obtained enough to put away two huge Ziploc bags in the freezer... the fact that I didn't get to go out and party didn't bother me much... the quality time I spent with my mom was an experience that I would treasure for the rest of my life and a one-time outing with someone I hadn't seen in years would have been forgotten in the long run..