I have driven up and down Trinkle Road umpteen bazillion times. During the heyday of the pandemic, I did it frequently because it was a way to get OUT of my neighborhood, especially when the GG was gone for the weekend, or a few weeks or whatever.

Today is the first time I have ever seen this structure. It is feet (10?) from the road but when the trees are leafed out, it is invisible, at least if you are driving (and are an intensely focused driver, like me). Today I was in the passenger seat and there are no leaves and there it was! Turn around and STOP! I gotta get a pic! There were also a bunch of smaller outbuildings in various states of disrepair. Some creative dad or whatever once had fun creating a small “town” or maybe “farm” is a better word and he is no longer around to keep up with it.

I have to laugh when I mention the GG being gone for a few weeks. He occasionally is, especially when he is supporting our friend Joan in her hiking endeavors. A few years ago I was walking in the woods behind my house and Luke of Perrynet approached me. He asked the question shyly, giggling a bit, “Is the GG ever coming home?” I’m sure he had been noticing that Cygnus was the solo car in the driveway and wondering if we had separated or something. Oh, no such luck. I explained about his adventures with Joan and all was well. The GG came home the next Sunday. We don’t have a particularly unconventional marriage but we trust each other and give each other a lot of space. I’ve never been interested in having affairs with other people and neither has he.

A serious winter storm is predicted for midnight through Tuesday morning and this time I am thinking they are not lying. It is a snowier winter than we’ve had for a while and I feel it in mah bonz or more likely my intuition is telling me to hunker down.

P.S. Pooh (my cousin) asked if the building in yesterday’s pic was the old Sault Ste. Siberia J.C. Penney store. Yes. Yes it was. And yes we bought fabric there. There was a balcony between the 1st and 3rd floors that housed fabric and patterns. Nowadays I believe it holds tribal offices (the decoration feels Native American) and I thought that the River of History Museum was in the building’s basement but not totally sure. The museum entrance is a couple doors down the street. But it could be that the museum continues along under several buildings including the old Penney’s. I only did light googling on this stuff.

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