Yikes! Where will we put him???

Dave is just about ready to leave his Colorado cowboy experience.  After Labor Day, he is free to head east, old man!  He is ready to go forward with his Mexico adventure trip plans and ready to come home to Bucks County.  He is really enjoying the brilliant early fall sunrises and sunsets in the mountains, though.  I hope he will be able to be glad for the experience without too much melancholy at leaving.

A few mornings ago, I was getting dressed and looking around the closet in our bedroom, and it dawned on me that there is not much room to squeeze another person into our condo.  It actually did go through my head, “Where will we put him?” 

Joel and I are doing great in our small but adequate condo.  We have an unspoken schedule that works for us.  We see one another every evening…I get home around 5:30 – 6:30 and we either grill out or comment on what the other is thinking of eating.  We always check the Cubs score online.  Sometimes, we walk up town to eat or to get water ice.  I tolerate Joel’s television watching that involves a lot of Power Rangers and Avatar.  He tolerates my internet and freecell focus and doesn’t mind me disappearing out on our balcony to read.  On the weekends, we go somewhere.  Yesterday, it was the shore.  We have been trying restaurants around Doylestown once a week or so.  We still have the Philly zoo and a train ride we are talking about. 

I need to begin to consider just how we are going to assimilate Dave into this low-key and simple existence we have settled into.  Of course, Dave will only be here a week or so before he heads out to Mexico wtih Bob Strong and a group of his, so he will probably feel like he is just visiting us! 

It’ll be good to have Dave home here in Pennsylvania.  There are PA license plates on my car and I have a PA car title and inspection completed.  This is home, now.  And, after 35 years, that means I will need to not just find a place to put him, but to welcome him here and absorb him into life as I have come to know it and adjust to life here with him.  Things will change and that is good. 

Wow.  There is a lot that I have experienced apart from Dave.  People I know who he doesn’t.  Ways to get places that he will have to figure out.  Habits I have settled into and preferences I have formed.  A connection and at-home-ness that I feel in Doylestown and all of Bucks County.  It hasn’t even been four months, but I have made the adjustment.  If we could remember the vows we made to one another back there in Austin, Texas in August of 1973, I imagine something we promised would cover meshing into a new life here.  Just like it covered allowing the separate pull to Colorado. 

We’ll find a place to put him!