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[olmue]

If I wrote a book about this place, publishers would shake their heads and tell me I needed to get in touch with real children, and that nobody in America is like that anymore. Well, maybe not in the 212, but it's true here! I have now lost count of how many people have come to our door bearing cookies. Every evening, people in the neighborhood take walks and say hi to each other. Kids on bikes speed up and down the street, or going to each others' houses down the sidewalk--without an armed adult escort overanxious parent. They go to the park alone (with friends, I mean, but no guards), they play Nerf guns and soccer, and everyone knows each other. There are tons of kids in the neighborhood, too. It's very strange, but nice, too. The drawbacks to a small town are of course, a teeny library (I do want to cry when I think of the library I left) and one small bookstore. Thank goodness for internet ordering, or I'd shrivel. Um, except that gets expensive and takes up space...

I've got a story brewing--finally! it's been a long, dry summer as far as writing--and I just need to get the moving thing done and get my computer to stop crashing and I can dive in. Tomorrow we're going to Yellowstone, provided second son's feeling okay. He managed to flip off his bike and whack his leg. He's running around, so I think it's going to be okay, but eek, it sure is bruised.

Completely off topic, but those people who have read my Egyptian-mythology-based book might be amused by the Was sceptre I found in our garage:



Finally, second son says there's supposed to be an aurora visible tonight, so I think I'm going to check up on that and try to see it. Idaho is in the Far, Far North, after all!

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random commenter

[rowanda380.livejournal.com]

sounds like a nice town, I am sure you guys will love it.

Re: random commenter

[olmue.livejournal.com]

It's nice so far. I guess the people feel the need to socialize while they can. Pretty soon the snow will start and it will be COLD.