a young buck

 Don and I just spend an hour watching a buck deer in the yard, and now i am behind the computer again, because i did scare the deer away by making the slightest noise, Why couldn't i stay quiet? The deer leaped up and bounced away after i made that sound with the window, trying to see the deer better.

 Don is standing behind me, massaging my shoulders. What a heavenly way to type.

I do not know if it has anything to with the sudden rise in temperature, the animals coming out of hiding after the snowfall and minus 20 C degree temperatures. But me feeling, all day, if in big need of being massaged, my body feeling dragged down.

 to continue Corrie's story 

Why is like that, that she often doesn't recognize people? She has wondered about that often.

And after the car is pulled out of the ditch with Philip's jeep, she apologized to the neighbour about not recognizing him, and as she did apologize, she suddenly  remembers his name: "James!" they laughed.

When young, Corrie recognized way more people then they did recognize her, she was aware of this; walking through the city, just knowing, seeing a woman in the library for example; oh yes that woman lives on my street, we  briefly spoke once.  Then as a young adult Corrie became aware that actually a lot of people did recognize her too,  she figured because she does not look ordinary, she is very tall and has a long face. And now in an encounter people will know who she is, but she has to ask; who are you again? Somewhere 30 plus she lost her ability to recognize people easily,   acquaintances like her neighbour James here. or a good friend in a crowd.  

I wonder what causes such handicap, which is not declining eyesight, but something else.

Corrie is 60 , Phillip is 73

Philip later goes back to the scene to see if he could figure out, by the tracks in the snow, how James ended up in the ditch. But Corrie knows, it was Philip's driving. He is the slowest driver on the road plus the way he always is putting on the brakes, both on the road as in life. Corrie and he will have a conversation, he will say. It is a miracle Corrie figures that he massaged her shoulder so long this morning, normally he would start something like that but stop after 2 minutes.

In this case he stopped, according to Philip  himself, to let James pass. and yes Corrie can see that, but.... 

The same for fast drivers, they have no clue that they are the ones that drive too fast. Let's take one such neighbour, Violet, Corrie knows she drives fast! Corrie has often shared rides with her; Violet is a speedy driver. Actually so is  Tanya, another neighbour Corrie has seen driving. Both Violet and Tanya are convinced they are good drivers. Corrie knows by the way they talk about other drivers. Other drivers drive too fast. Much faster then Violet or Tanya, or so they say. Corrie can not imagine. Violet  was telling a story how she takes others peoples license plate numbers to report them to the police, and Tanya is always complaining about the reckless drivers in the Yukon, passing her at times on the inside or something weird.

Corrie is happy that at least Philip is a slow driver, even if it means he does get stopped by the police more often then the fast ones, or so it seems. Her and Alek agreed on it, because they both have husbands who do not have a lead foot. And both their men have gotten in trouble with the police due to it.