Friday evening

It was very nice Friday after work – the kind of weather I live here for.

I came home with nothing really I needed to do and a newspaper to finish reading.  I used to get a paper every day, because I delivered them, you know.  I quit doing the dailies though and went for a stretch of not reading the paper much.  I mean, buy one? 

Yeah, right.

It turns out my new mid-day run takes me to the district Charter School, where I pick up one to five kindergarteners to take home.  (in an 84 passenger bus) I always get there with plenty of time to go inside and use the facilities, and on my way out, to grab one of the day’s newspapers that sit in a stack on the hall table.  Back when I did the dailies, I used to drop a couple hundred at Milwaukie high.  They were the SOS papers – Save Our Schools, or something.  I always grab one at the Charter School – passes the time at the high school I hit next after dropping off kindygarteners, where I’ve got time to read the Op/Ed pages before I run those polite high schoolers to the Skills Center before lunch/my afternoon nap.

Did my mid-day and caught a nap in my van, then ran my afternoon routes.  The elementary kids were wild, as I expected – nice Friday afternoon, no school for days – yeah.  Kid’s day fer sure.

Got my high schoolers taken care of and came home to see my wonderful balcony waiting for me.  Here’s the view from my chair out there:

There’s a lot more room since I hung the bike over the balcony.  Wonder why I didn’t do that before?

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Here’s looking from my chair out to the southwest.  Those purple trees are plums. you know.  They add some color, for sure.

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Standing up and looking down here.

The balcony was getting good sun, so I did a little "work" on my tan.  I am on the top floor of the tallest building around, so, like, no need to pay a tanning salon sort of place when I’ve got my own mostly private balcony, eh?

You wanna avoid those tan lines, ya know.

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One more peek from my chair to the west, southwest:

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Yeah, Friday was a great day.

Too bad Saturday wasn’t – see the next post for a different sort of afternoon.

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