As soon as I woke up this morning I knew that I was going over to the Space Age Restaurant in Gila Bend and have a Short Stack Adventure. I don't know what Space Age does with their pancakes, but they are just about the best pancakes I have had! Space Age pancakes don't fall apart as do most other pancakes! They are firm, but not chewy. And they taste sooooooo good!
You may be wondering why I call this a "Short Stack Adventure". Well, when I was younger I used to go to places in the wild forests to find adventure. Now I am an older guy. And going for a short stack at the Space Age Restaurant seems like an adventure to me!
I plan to read a newspaper while in the restaurant. Or maybe chew the fat with somebody. I like to eat at the counter because from there I can see what is going on in the kitchen. I'm going to wear my house slippers while eating. Because they are soooooo comfortable!
9AM - Wonderful email
When I have written here in my blog that I am behind in my email replies, readers have suggested that I simply create a "saved" reply and use that reply to catch up. However, I refuse to do that.
Email that I receive from readers is an amazing gift for me. Readers take their valuable time to write to me with words of compassion. With suggestions. With prayers. How can I answer with a "saved" reply?
Right now I am replying to email received on April 6th. It may take me several days or weeks to catch up. But I will catch up and reply to every email sent to me!
10:30AM - One more thing to post!
I was headed out of Gila Bend when it struck me that I had one more thing to post to you. There is a WiFi access point at the Gila Bend Library, and MsTioga stopped at the library parking lot for me to go online.
I did not fully realize that during the past few months, my grieving took me into a very depressed place. During that time, the joy in my life evaporated. All that was left was emptiness, and a feeling of unexplained kinds of losses. For example, a loss of a place called home.
If this could happen to me, it could happen to anybody. Without bragging, I believe that normally I am one of the happiest most positive people. But this grieving took me down hard.
Perhaps it should have been a sign to me that when I lost interest in keeping MsTioga clean, that something was seriously wrong. When I felt that there was no place left that I could call home, that this was a sign that something was really wrong!
Snapped out of it!
A couple of days ago I began to come out of this low place. I just snapped out of it! Suddenly I began to see all the accumulated dust inside MsTioga! How did it get so dusty? I began to clean and clean and clean! At the same time I began to feel "at home" everyplace where MsTioga and I made a Camp! What changed? What was different now?
All that I know is that I now understand that grieving is a lot more powerful than I ever could comprehend before I went thru it myself.
3PM - Yuma, Arizona
MsTioga has made her Camp in a large dirt field in the east part of Yuma, Arizona. We are close to a Kentucky Fried Chicken! Might go over to that KFC! I love their original recipe, cole slaw, potato salad and the biscuit with honey!
Clear sky