2 posts tagged “2008”
There's another deer in the backyard this morning. This time I got a picture:
A guy I don't think I've met before, Patrick, evidently asked my dad for permission to ask me on a date. Dad said that's fine (hey! I'm 27), but he didn't think I'd date Patrick. Dad was right. I learned my lesson last year when I went out with a guy (I don't even remember his name), and he wanted more than I was willing to put out. Lame. It was really funny to see everyone hitting on everyone else in front of their friends. It made me miss my friends - they'd never let one of us do something stupid like that. Jacob would really like it here.
I'm spending three weeks of my Christmas break in South Dakota visiting my dad and stepmother. It's nice to be here, but it's cold, and it can get pretty boring. I'm up in the Black Hills - about 25 minutes from Rapid City - with no cell phone reception and no cable. At least I have intrawebs. During the day I sit around the cabin while my dad watches a tv that's always too loud. In the late afternoon, we go about 5 miles down the road to a bar called the Happy Tavern, where I drink cheap beer for a few hours. All is well.
My dad got some hay to attract deer to his backyard (he lives on a mountain in Black Hills National Forest), and there's a rather plump doe out there right now chomping away. By this point, my dad's three dogs have seen enough deer that they just gaze listlessly in the general direction of the beer.
The forest service is burning some piles of wood they cut down this year to thin out the trees in case of forest fire. The smoke has tinted the sky orange, and it looks like snow is dimming the hills across the road. It's looked like sunset for most of the day. It's beautiful here.
