Proud As a Peacock! Last time, I promise

[Julie Gaum]

I promise this will be the last time I'll bore you with experiences that are already "old hat" for many members. And it's not to try and convince anybody that they MUST come out of the closet - to each his own. To me the last three days was a challenge of 72 years that I finally met. At age 16 drove the family car out at night wearing my mom's clothes and never out since. Already posted of the first two days at beauty shop and wearing pants and tops and then last night: Rog was late due to traffic on his way south so he asked that I go to the restaurant and start --- it was already 9:30 and was starving. With considerable trepidation
as I was wearing a dark blue skirt set with black sleeveless top --- first time out in skirt and first time in a restaurant --- I was led to a booth and a waiter took my order --- Maryland soft-shell crabs that I craved from the days I was visiting my stores in Maryland and Delaware --- Rog showed up in minutes. I must have been a poor dinner companion --- analagous to someone bungee jumping from a bridge for the first time --- mind was on whether the rope would snap --- it didn't snap!
Today back to supermarket wearing skirt and white top. The cart boy/man asked if he could lift the 20 pound bag of birdseed into my trunk and asked me how I planned to lift it out (poor old lady). Got back in time to meet 12 grownup goslings. A neighbor I never saw before came over to snap a picture of them and me. He said Momma was killed by a car yesterday! I think some drive with their eyes closed or don't give a damn. Otherwise, a happy ending of my tale --- PROMISE.
Julie

[Michelle (Oz)]

Thanks for sharing Julie and no need to promise. The outside world is exciting and each venture will add to your confidence. Me thinks you have a lot of femme time catching up to do.

Also love soft shell crab - don't have to peel the buggers.

[Persephone]

Congratulations on your newest adventures, Julie! So glad to hear that you are having fun!

And please don't stop sharing. There is no "old hat" around here. I know that I'm enjoying your posts.

Sorry to hear about your neighbor's Mom. Eyes closed is nothing, when I lived in your town one of my nearby neighbors was a legally blind man in his 80's who drove a T-Bird. His wife, who never drove a car and never had a license, would sit next to him and say, "O.K. dear, there is a stop sign coming up..."

Hugs,
Persephone.

[BLUE ORCHID]

Hi Julie, Thanks for a great story, That's why we are all here for each other.

[Keely]

I'm hopeful it was the goslings mom and not the neighbors Mom.
Good for you Julie, sounds like you are having a good time.

[MysticLady]

Hi Julie....................YAY:D, you're doing it girl. I Luv it. It sounds like you're just having too much fun Girlie. I am so happy for you. Just be you. Hooray for Julie:). (I'm sorry to hear of your neighbors Mom:sad:)

[daarleane]

Julie, just wondering if the cart boy would have lifted that 20 lb bag for you as a "little old man".

[Alice Torn]

I wonder if someone will care for the goslings. How tragic! You sound liek you looked great, no problems. Maybe you and the neighbor can help feed, and befriend the goslings.. I once stopped traffic at rush hour, in Tacoma Wash, to escort a family of geese and goslings across a very busy main street. Thankfully, no one was blowing the horn, or road raged at me.

[Beverley Sims]

Julie,
When you have good things happen.

SHARE THEM WITH EVERY BODY. :)

They are events not to be missed

[Sometimes Steffi]

Don't you mean proud as a peahen? ;-)

[Leah Lynn]

Keep them coming Julie!

Peahens are drab. In the bird world the males are the pretty ones; kinda like us!

Hugs,

Leah

[Julie Gaum]

Many thanks for your encouragement. To set the record correctly: It was the Momma goose that was missing --- that was what the "neighbor was talking about. Seems that I'm the only one that feeds them daily, first in drab and now in skirts. They seem to know it's me despite what I'm wearing. My only concern are people that have seen me in drab and now with the same make and color car see an elderly lady doing it --- may put 2 and 2 together. Probably 80% of the apartments, 400 of them, are rented by dark skinned people - Latino or A-American-- so I always stood out --- now they see the same silver-haired person but the hair style, makeup and clothes are different so I still stand out while in the apartment complex ---once away from here I feel more comfortable. Monday, tomorrow, I sign a new lease for 15 months and I'll be going drab --- no sense in pushing a good thing. I do feel badly about Momma, to successfully raise 12 goslings was no easy task --- will start to slowly taper off the feeding quantity as they are just about old enough to forage on their own. Yes it should have been "peahen" but they, as nature does, are very drab. I don't think the cart-man would have commented on how I was going to take the birdseed out of the trunk if I was dressed male --- got a kick out of that!
Thanks again
Julie

[Claire Cook]

Proud as a peahen indeed! So now the fun begins -- the JEANNIE is out of the bottle!!

[Barbara Ella]

Sorry I got to this thread so late. Julie, this is so wonderful. Whatever you do, do not stop posting when you do things you are proud of and feel good over. There are too few of those moments to pass up any of them.

You are really out there. I am so happy for you. Long, long overdue girl. Keep it going.

Hugs,

Barbara