Small Town Adventures

Well, this big city girl has now relocated herself to a Small Town. And I do mean small. So far, in my adventures exploring around, you can head about 6 blocks in any direction before you get to either a field (of crops) or a field (just the plain kind) or a farm containing cows. Many many cows. We do have 3 stoplights though - 2 on one end of town, and 1 on the other. Not sure why 3, and not just 2. On the positive side, it's pretty easy to find everything with only 6 blocks to wander thru at a given time. Rather hard to get lost. Or at least one would think.

As a result of this uprooting, I've decided to come back from the unintentional blogging hiatus and see if I can manage to keep things updated with the new adventures to be found in a small town. It is definitely a change of pace. Everything closes up early in the evening, so if you forgot an ingredient for your dinner recipe, you'd better hurry up and get down to the store, as once you get to about 8pm you're out of luck. No more of this 24-hr availability stuff to be had. In fact, I think the local video store even closes at 8pm - no running out to catch a late movie. Especially seeing as that video is the only option. No movie theater unless an Outing is planned. An Outing includes:

• figuring out which movie theater to go to (closest is minimum 13 miles or about 25min of driving),
  
• what time the movie starts (to ensure enough arrival/traffic time),
  
• whether or not dinner will be included (as if you're driving that far anyways, you should make the most of your trip),
• and do you have enough gas?

An Outing does not always include dinner and a movie, however. It can also be to go to the big-box variety store, the gym, to the fabric store, or to pretty much any store that is not a grocery or the hardware store. It usually involves several hours of preparation to make sure you don't forget anything, or anyone who wishes to carpool. It is an adventure.