Mornings at the Condo

Mornings at the condo, for me, are the most peaceful part of the day. I usually will get up at sunrise. We try, if it's not too hot to keep the windows open. I can see the sun rising and hear the trains as they leave the station in a nearby town.

I love to walk for about 2 hours in the very early morning. This is the time that the deer can be seen. It's the most wonderful experience to be walking, listening to an I-POD, and all of a sudden a deer crosses the road. You stare at him and he stares at you. Sometimes, you see baby deer. Then there are the cotton tails, the squirrels and the birds. It's like a Disney movie.

The difficulty occurs when I return to the condo. In the morning Meryl is QUEEN OF THE SPRINKLER. She has already watered the entire porch so that we can't sit on it. She has soaked the chairs and the bench. She has also turned on the sprinkler going back and forth so that in order to get back inside, I must dodge the water or jump onto the porch from the side. Her boyfriend has tried to show her how to set up the sprinkler so as not to annoy anyone. Her answer had to do with the fact that she doesn't care. She hates people and doesn't care what she does to annoy them. It's not just me. Anyone that walks by gets soaked with water. Jane, one of the renters, has been soaked countless times as she carries garbage to the dumpster and has to dodge the sprinkler.

Tony and Barbara who live next door to us love to start trouble. They will swear that Meryl does this only when we arrive for the weekend. All I can say is, eat your heart out Meryl, you jealous bitch!!  As far as Barbara and Tony go, he has admitted on many occasions that he likes to start trouble between people. Who knows if what he says is true?

If I'm lucky, and here I'm being sarcastic, to meet Meryl and her boyfriend Bill when I come back from walking, they will always want to know where my husband is. It bothers them that he is sleeping. Why isn't he walking with you? Doesn't that bother you? I will always smile and tell them that they wouldn't understand that it is compromise that makes a marriage work. I also thank Meryl for the sprinkler being on because after you break a sweat from exercise it's nice to have a cool down!!!

I know that this is what really bothers her.

Soon after this exchange, she will turn the sprinkler off.

I know that later on, before we go out and have breakfast, when she isn't looking, I will soak the porch with the watering can. Bill likes to sit outside in the morning drinking coffee in his bathrobe and now he can't. I smile as we leave to go out to breakfast!!!!!