{"id":21274,"date":"2024-07-23T22:06:17","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T03:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=21274"},"modified":"2024-07-24T15:47:05","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T20:47:05","slug":"cookout-at-the-senior-center-ron-conquers-the-blowdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=21274","title":{"rendered":"Cookout at the Senior Center; Ron Conquers the Tree (Branch)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We enjoyed veg burgers at the Senior Center – thoughtful bunch, it helps that the director is also veg – and a talk by the director of Remedy Hall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ron cut up the substantial felled tree branch with his electric saw, which amazed me. He’s good at figuring out how to do this without putting himself in harm’s way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I finally got my new Rudbeckia in the ground, a three day process, but I’m happy with the placement. The poor thing was pretty badly rootbound. Sprinkled more deer repellent around the new transplants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Long conversation with Ron tonight about why I didn’t resent him for leaving me and Peter when he was little but felt he shortchanged us by not wanting to know us when Peter was a teenager. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I figure even if we’d gotten together in our fifties we would have been better off financially and equally importantly, shared experiences that he squandered with other women. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ultimately, he has no good explanation for why this didn’t happen; rather, the same old saw about alcoholism, guilt and the Catholic Church. As if the Catholic Church doesn’t offer redemption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Got an annoying email from the people who administer the home improvement grant I applied for. Depending on their reply, I may forget about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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