lemonade

It's a beautiful day today-about 75 degrees or so, blue sky, white billowy clouds, occasional breeze- and I'm sitting here on my front porch and today, I'm thinking that this small town life isn't so bad. For now. Not that I think it's so bad on other days, in fact, I never think of it as bad but perhaps just not for me. Later. But for now, it's good. I watch my daughter as she sits behind her Lemonade Stand table, humming, inventing stories about acorns she discovers on the sidewalk, shouting "Lemonade for Sale!" as people pass and I'm thinking that this is a good life for her. and Buddy, my large lab who watches her to make sure that she is safe-he eats sticks and chases squirrels and lazes in the sun. If we lived in the city, I wonder how today might have been different? Well, today is a nice one, for this self-described city girl...