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My mother got a job today! I got in to the house and she and my dad were in the kitchen making dinner. She happily proclaimed the news about her job, and there followed much hugging and smiling and bouncing on both our parts. She's got a temporary, though hopefully fairly lengthy, postion with Abbot Labs which it seems will pay somewhere in the neighborhood of what she was making when she last had a job in her industry, about 1 year ago. I can't believe it's been that long. Amazingly enough, we got by. We always do, don't we? The universe, or the god/dess, or whoever is watching out for us has my thanks. And the waiting on that front is finally over. It'll be nice to have money again, but more important to me, my mom can stop worrying about things so much. She was really stressed, and I worried about her. *sigh of relief* I'm happy.

Today was absolutely beautiful. The sun is finally holding the earth close to itself and her new life is showing in force. I wished, as I drove home with windows on both sides of the car open so as to allow the golden winds to caress me all the way along, that I could somehow tip the roof off of the house during the day. Someone should start building convertable houses. *grin*

I stopped and looked at the site where the old farmhouse I mentioned once before burned down. The weather was so nice that, as I was passing by, the impulse to stop, get out of the car, and look around hit me. So I did. I drove up the dirt driveway to where the house once stood behind a small hill with a sparse covering of trees. There was just a patch of bare, slightly blackened ground and a few pieces of stone from the foundation to mark the passing of the building. What really touched me was the old swing still haning from rusted chains on one of the nearby trees. Walking closer, I saw remnants of a tree house and what used to be a ladder going up to it. I would so love to know who had lived here once upon a time. Even when it was still standing late last year it looked long abandoned. How long did it sit empty? That long abandonded swing reminds me so much of the one my grandparents have at their house. I intend to get a picture next time I get a chance, I didn't have my camera with me. The sight was admittedly a little melancholy, but I was struck more by a sense of wondering nostalgia for a past that I don't even know.

The weather is so nice it got me to thinking about going draining. Maybe I'll do that again soon. I still haven't been all the way to the end of any of the drains here...

Yes, I'm still missing Andrea, but I'm doing pretty well. I'm feeling really good today, actually. I can't wait to see her again... *smile* I'm going to write more about the weekend later tonight I think. I hardly know how to say what a wonderful time it was...