The Shortcut

I was driving up to the lake on Friday night. As soon as I get off the highway the fog sets in heavy. One of those misty nights where the frogs come out to the road.

There is a shortcut up to the lake road that isn't on any maps yet, my GPS is useless there- confused and lost. On the left there is this odd little farm called "Sanity Acres".

I'm cruising up the road, it's dark and empty so I'm going right along at a good clip. All of a sudden I hear something crashing through the bush on the far side of the road. I don't slow down, I think I can slip past it before it gets to the road. Just as I'm passing it breaks through. In my peripheral I catch a pale shape in the side mirror and I hear now, all claws scraping against the road trying to catch me. Then it gives something between a growl and a bark. My window is open and it's right there. I wonder what kind of animal can catch up to a car like that but I'm putting distance between us now. The road was curvy so I never got a good look at it in the rearview and I sure didn't slow down to see what it was.

I told my grandparents about it and they said they go through there all the time and had never seen or heard of a dog chasing cars there.

New Roommate

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I finally have a minute to take a breath. For the past 3 weeks I've been living in a hotel in Tewskbury, MA which wasn't bad but living like that gets expensive. A bunch of options I was looking at fell through. None of the apartments I called would do a lease for less than a year. The apartment building that was willing to rent to me monthly while it was for sale got an offer the day I was going to deal. The furnished studio in Nashua didn't become available as they had expected. Even the camping area I was looking at was booked all of 4th of July and didn't have a site they could rent for the entire summer. This morning I was finally able to check out of the hotel and this evening I'll move in with my new roommate, Bonnie.

Other than that things have been going pretty well. I spent the last few weekends up at the lake and I'll probably end up there this coming weekend too. I really should get an EZPass to use on the turnpike since I am on it so much.

Other than that I will keep my fingers crossed that I can sell my house in NC soon and starting looking for something on this end.

KP