Spiders, Seniors, Summer

I read a bit about spiders today, an interesting bit. It seems this is the time of year the adult males go out cruising for chicks, hence they are more visible, but there are not more of them. I read there are indoor spiders and there are outdoor spiders, so if you put an indoor spider outside you aren't doing them any favors. Here I am, a murderer of innocent spiders for all these years.

I have been following our own favorite Brittany and her first few days of being a senior on Facebook, hum not so innocent. I think that girl is planning on making her senior year memorable. And Blaine is in high school, I guess that means Clark is also. That makes everyone over thirty quake with the power of time passing. It seems like it was just yesterday when it was Ian and Summer becoming high schoolers. Time can be fierce on us old timers.

Now Summer is a fierce and feisty wife and mother. Like a female badger defending her home. She has more pets than I can recall. The only one I remember the name of is Rocco/Rocko? She's fiercely protective of them also. I wonder if she knows how many pets she has owned since she was nine years old?

Ten things I know about Summer; For her Las Vegas wedding she had her dearly beloved Aunt Jean make the wedding dress. She partied a little bit at her Vegas wedding. She loves Christmas and Michel's birthday parties. Has a double dose of English blood coursing through her veins, three generations deep on her mother's side and ten, no eleven generations deep on her daddies side. I think that is enough English blood for anyone except Claire and Judy, they can have all they want.

We like full, half, quarter, or smidgen blood in our family: Native American, Mexican, English, Scottish, Irish, horse thief, banker, witch or weirdo. Not too many preachers though.

I know Summer loves camping and cooking and computer games, but I don't know where she would like to travel to, well, besides the UK, of course. Does she lean towards Lady Gaga or Kenny Chesney? Are her favorite movies like Tropic Thunder or Pride and Prejudice?

Summer works hard, takes cakes care of her dogs, plays when she can, snuggles her baby, takes care of her man. But: Has she caught a trout? Hiked a mountain? Driven to Austin? Been to an emergency room?

And more importantly, what's her opinion of spiders?


The poem for my friend Lynn.

The Road to Coyle

"Huh"
She said
As the road to Coyle
Coiled around mazes of forest green
Miles
To the end
At the community center
Sitting
Proud and empty

"Huh"
She said
Searching
Bland landscapes
For vistas, beaches, cliffs
For a bigger bliss

"Huh"
She said
The lesson of Coyle
Not learned
--
Yet

"Huh"
She said.


Life isn't always a sensational senior year.
Life isn't always a smooth wedding party.
Life isn't always spider free.

Sometimes it is better. Sometimes it is the road to Coyle, full speed, fifty-nine miles, technicolor, with a touch of danger, a touch of mystery and some puzzling metal pots every three miles.

P.S. The City of Black Hawk Colorado has banned bicycles. Can you believe it? City leaders say they get in the way of the casino tour buses. Well, excuse me for pedaling.