It feels good to be home.....

Don't get me wrong, it was nice to go Outside for a week.  I saw cornfields and soybean fields and cows and horses.  I could smell the farmland.  I heard the locusts at night and watched the lightning bugs light up.

I lived small town life for a week.  Libby's Pumpkin Capital of the World small town life.  There are a lot of parallels in the life of my friend and mine, but there are far more differences.  We have both adapted to life away from the town we grew up in.  In many ways, my friend is lucky.  Her life is similar to what I remember our lives being when we were kids.  The life I thought I would have when I grew up.  Brick home, tree lined street, you know your neighbors type of life.  Leave it to Beaver meets Petticoat Junction. 

My life is more Grizzly Adams meets The Jetson's.  Okay, we don't have Rosie the maid, but close enough.  We hunt and fish.  We process our catch ourselves.  We have a food saver, pressure canner and 2 smokers (electric and charcoal).  But we have technology.  Our lives are built around technology (The Jetson's part of my life).  Technology is how we keep in touch with the Outside.  Amazon Prime is a wonderful thing when you are this far removed from "civilization".

My girlfriend is a military wife.  Her husband is currently deployed.  He will be home in a few weeks.  Military wife fits her.  She is organized.  Everything is planned out.  Everything is in its place.  I am more fly by the seat of my pants.  I'm impulsive.  I want to go fishing, I pack up and go. 

While I was visiting, she told me I am the Proverbs 31 wife.  I thought she was kidding.  I think she's the Proverbs 31 wife.  We are so different, yet so much the same.  Our husbands, children and grandchildren come first.  Then we can make time for ourselves.

I feel like Dorothy Gale right now.  At the end of the Wizard of Oz, she realized that her heart's desire is right there in her own back yard.  There's no place like home.