The top news event in the Ridge River area
was the official opening today of Dr. Colt Carter’s Veterinary clinic at the
Ridge River Ranch today. He has already
been taking care of animals while the work on the clinic was finished and they
had it set up; but there was an open house and mini celebration today; and
having a new vet in the area is definitely way overdue.
My day probably wasn’t as exciting as Dr.
Colt’s; but it has been pretty good for a school-day Monday. The end-of-year wrap up officially began
today, and whether that meant starting to clean up or just wind down the last
week with play time; everything we did was fun.
Though it had been cloudy with some spits of rain all day, our lunchtime
weather was great for being outdoors; and the boys had a good turnout for
football for the first time in a week now that exams are over. Rowen and I spent that time chatting with
Rebecca, Jenny, and some of the other girls while the scrimmage game was going
on; and Jenny spent some of that time teasing Rebecca about her burgeoning
relationship with Lucas. Cassie wasn’t
the only girl in the group to suspect that the comments and jokes were at least
partly masking the ‘now why didn’t I notice that he’d gotten so hot over the
past year’ thoughts that seemed obvious to Cassie by the way Jenny watched
Lucas as he played football with the other guys – once again on the ‘skins’
team for the day with an expression on her face of regret.
Rebecca has nothing to worry about – best friends
forever rules are very clear when it comes to things like boyfriends – and Lucas
is Rebecca’s boyfriend now even if they haven’t exactly totally made that
official yet. Jenny wouldn’t even dream
of messing with that any more than Rowen or I would do that to each other. Maybe that sacred trust gets broken
elsewhere; but not here in Witch Falls – not ever.
Before you go rushing back through my
journals to re-read the reports from back before Michael and I were a couple or
Rowen and Tim got together; the key to the above is ‘best friends forever’. I wasn’t suggesting that there is never any
teen relationship drama here – if you’re old enough to be reading this in my
future; then you know that anyway. If
you are reading this and haven’t yet experienced having a best friend forever –
go out and get one! I highly recommend
it, and while I think that mine is especially amazing; that’s how you’re
supposed to feel about them – which is pretty much the point that you know for
sure that you’ve found your life-long BFF.
One of the really great things about the
last week of school is that there is no homework. Pretty much everyone had first stacks of
returned papers, assignments, and project to take home – or throw out if they
didn’t want to do that – but there wasn’t any work to do. After school playing was an option; and
Michael, Tim, Rowen, and I opted for some trail riding at the park. We have not done enough of that – or just
having some teen fun together without either adults or kids with us; so that
was a nice little adventure.
I was with Michael at his house for dinner
tonight, and while it’s too bad that his baseball practiced got rained out when
it started to get wet at dinnertime and was pouring by shortly before seven; we
were both really happy with the chance for some alternate fun time
instead. Let’s not forget to mention
that the dinner that Jacob and Jake put together for us was delicious, and that
I loved spending that time having fun with Michael and his family; but the
highlight of my night was the music and play time with Michael in his
room. We practiced the music for the
praise team while doing my guitar lesson; sang a few random favorites that we
like to play around with while turning them into duets; and then, as Miranda
teased us later; we spent some quality, non-verbal time ‘practicing the rests’.
We weren’t resting; but we were laying down
on his bed for quite a bit of that time! ;^)
Michael and I made it back downstairs with
enough time left before I needed to go home to have a nice long chat with his
parents and Rebecca. Jake and Stephanie
had gone out to hang out with Violet, Dillon, and some other friends; so it was
just the five of us. We didn’t really
talk about anything important, but then it was really just the being together
that I loved the most anyway. Now that
Michael and I are about to join Rebecca in high school, we’re all interested in
doing more things together again – though not looking like little kids anymore
by comparison to her helps a bit too.
Michael’s an inch or so taller than she is now – a fact that he’s quite
happy about; and I’m only about an inch shorter than Rebecca.
I know, but even a teen Magi Master has to
deal with real life; and it was hard for both Rebecca and I to feel comfortable
when she was quite a bit taller than me – not to mention a lot curvier and
dealing with puberty issues that weren’t something that she wanted to talk
about with a ‘kid’. It’s much more fun
now – especially when we can talk about things like her new boyfriend and other
important girl chat stuff!
I headed home during a break in the rain –
or it at least lightened up enough that I didn’t get soaked during the little
walk.
Sharing front-porch goodnight kisses to the
pitter-patter of a soft rain is very romantic – give it a try sometime!
Ethan and Ehlana were just finishing up one
of their college exams when I got home, so I had a little visit with Mom and
Dad in the office while they did that; we did a bedtime snack and daily recap
next; and then I tucked them in for the night before going back downstairs to
do my Magi lesson with Mom in the office.
It was after eleven by the time I was done and came up here to get ready
for bed; so that made for a late start to my study and work time once I was
finally snuggled in bed with Mandy.
She has, by the way, advised me that we
need to spend more time together.
Playing with Ethan, Ehlana, and their friends is an option for her; but
I haven’t spent enough time with her lately.
I’ll get right on that as soon as we’re finished school on Friday,
Mandy!
As mentioned in my last update, I want to
get some work done this week; so I’ve spent the last three and a half hours
studying languages, reading my archive assignments, and doing the family
business work that was next on my work to-do list. Michael and I are going to be busy again
tomorrow with band practice after school and our teen praise team practice
after dinner; so I’d better wrap this up and get started on the nap that I still
have time for. There wasn’t anything
newsworthy via email tonight, and the studying and work was interesting and
sometimes entertaining; but I won’t bore you with the details of language
nuances or facts and figures from our businesses.
I do know that most people find that kind
of thing mind-numbingly tedious and dry, so let’s just concede that I’m weird
when it comes to that area of my life and move along.
We’re supposed to have more rain again
tomorrow, but I’ll be indoors most of the time anyway; so let it rain. Maybe we’ll get all of that out of the system
so that we can have an entire summer of hot, sunny weather to enjoy while we’re
free of school for the next ten weeks!
That’s it for now, though; so, until next
time…
…Live long and prosper, fellow Magi of the
Light!
