My five month 'vacation' from Lawson's Landing has come to an end and today I find myself heading back for the summer to help with the vacationing crowd. I have my two macaws caged up in big carriers in the back of the Explorer. Sacks of bird seed and cat food is safely tucked behind them. In the back seat are the two cats, Spooky and Kickers, also tucked into their traveling cages. They meow plaintively for the first hour, then settle back hopelessly for the rest of the seventeen hour trip. Next to me on the front seat is my African Parrot, Sam in a smaller traveling cage. He's much the happier of all the five pets, whistling short bits of stage tunes or spicing up the silence with "Hello!" "How are ya?" When the going gets too long for him, or the traffic gets heavy, he senses my mood and begins a loud anxious barking. I think it's just to get me to yell back at him.
Bill is leading the pack in his Trooper. He will have the uncaged, squirmy puppy, Chuy riding with him. Chuy has his own sheepskin pad on the front seat that he should sleep on, but invariably feels more at peace, curling up in Bill's lap and resting his head on the arm rest.
So that's what we're doing today. I'm going to miss our little casa, maybe not these hundred and ten degree days so much, but the town and our house. It is finally feeling like home to me. I can walk along the street and folks will greet me with a wave and smile or a greeting and certain friends will toot their horn when they see us walking and they pass by in a car. That's what I like about the little town. For the most part, everyone has been real sweet and welcoming and I don't feel like a Newcomer so much.
No, I didn't get to do all the things I had planned to do this winter/spring. There's a pile of books left unread I haven't gotten to yet. The garden is only about a third finished and I've plans for more. The furniture I was going to refinish? Not a speck of it started! And there's lots more areas we didn't get to explore in the desert. But that's okay, because I'll be back in the fall and then I'm hoping to discover even more things about this fascinating little town that I am calling "Home"!
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About Me
- Nancy Vogler
- Big Pine Key, Florida, United States
- Having spent the better part of her life living and working at Lawson's Landing in Dillon Beach, California with her family, Nancy has also managed to write nine novels and one non-fiction book. She's been happily married to her childhood sweetheart, Bill for forty years. They have two sons who work the family resort in California and who keep them well fed with salmon and halibut. Nancy and Bill spend most of their year in Superior, Arizona and their summers at Dillon Beach. She is learning more about her abilities as a psychic and is trying to learn more about the spiritual world. She delights in talking with people and thinks a good story is like frosting on a cake and should be tasted daily. She keeps busy in the odd times with making men's Hawaiian print shirts and marketing them on EBay under the name SOMETHING FISHY.
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