Serious surgery wasn't something I'd bargained for, and it scared me silly.It turned out, when I checked days after the fact with Spook, that my worri...es had been needless. At one time in history, it seemed, C-sections had been almost invariably fatal to the mother, and the baby might not make it, either. These days, though, Spook said the literature showed they were no riskier than natural birth. Even the incision didn't incapacitate her any more than extended labor would have, maybe less, and. "And of course being the tough guy he didn't get the hint and takes a swing at me. I telegraph the swing and easily move throwing him off guard. In the mean time we were arguing loud enough that we didn't hear my buddies pull up and come into the store. Amy's ex tries to regain his balance only to find himself face to face with ten of the biggest bikers around and with a very distinctive patch on their back. I thought he was about to shit himself. The club president Tony, was one of my old. . the blanks were headed for the Smithsonian ... as soon as I had legal possession. A pot hunter I am not.What I was truly interested in, though, wasn’t the lithics ... I was interested in the hole... (s). Looking out over the sun dappled surface of the pine-needled forest floor, I could see there were more depressions signaling more holes. A looker wouldn’t see them ... but an observer would notice right off; something was backfilled here. The blanks on the pine forest floor told me right off. So it is Sunday morning, and I am sitting in the kitchen drinking coffee, and trying to wake up...Soon, I know what I'll be doing. It isn't something I might do or will think about doing. It's something that I do every morning he isn’t here, and have to do in the morning.When I awake, the very first cogent, waking thoughts that I have are about him. Through that morning haze of waking up, only those thoughts have any clarity at all. It doesn't matter where I am, or what the day holds. No part.
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