{"id":16858,"date":"2019-06-01T16:40:08","date_gmt":"2019-06-01T20:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nearariver.com\/?p=16858"},"modified":"2026-09-10T11:23:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T15:23:07","slug":"tomorrow-near-a-river-bj-rae-encouragement-for-kids-bald-eagle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/tomorrow-near-a-river-bj-rae-encouragement-for-kids-bald-eagle\/","title":{"rendered":"Tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tomorrow I am looking forward to you!
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Last night I stayed up too late writing my novel, and I was still groggy when my friend arrived at my home to walk at seven am. So I forgot to use bug protection. Can you imagine what happened?<\/p>\n

A large group of black flies tried to carry me off.\u00a0 They did\u2014honest!\u00a0 A zillion bugs swarmed my body and hovered over my skin and clothing everywhere! Thank goodness gravity is stronger than a zillion bugs!<\/p>\n

One bug stuck to my glasses as I swatted him (pesky bugs have to be male because no member of my gender would annoy anyone so much!).\u00a0 I dug in my pocket for a lens cleaning cloth and accidentally dropped the stylus I use for my phone.<\/p>\n

When I got home, I ate three entire teaspoons of minced garlic to ward off bugs the rest of the day. The only problem was that the garlic also kept everyone else away from me–my husband, our dogs, other people\u2026<\/p>\n

Despite my body\u2019s odor, we needed to run some errands. We got hungry, so we stopped at one of the best bagel shops in the whole world. The shop\u2019s delicious smell advertises its products out to the parking lot, but then I walked in and the delicious scent temporarily went away.<\/p>\n

Betcha you can\u2019t guess what happened next!\u00a0 I didn\u2019t have to wait in line because the shop cleared out when I went in. Thank you garlic, for clearing the bagel store so I could quell my hunger sooner!<\/p>\n

We came home and I made our business calls. My health insurance company was the worst!<\/p>\n

Since my health insurance company\u2019s phone program does not allow for a caller to request a callback, I had to hold 50 minutes to speak to \u201cJohn O\u201d. While holding, the awful music gave me a headache. Lucky me, I got the honor of listening to a very rotten unnamed and unknown instrumental song over and over the entire time I \u201cpatiently\u201d waited until 6 pm.<\/p>\n

Back at home and still smelling like garlic, I walked with my hubby and our two dogs\u2014with them at a safe distance, of course. Although both my husband and I had searched earlier in our driveway for the stylus I dropped, it was right there in my driveway.\u00a0 It wiggled as though it was laughing at me when I picked it up.<\/p>\n

As I typed my journal, I processed today\u2019s events. As usual, I described them and also wrote a summary.<\/p>\n

Here are a few paragraphs from this document today.<\/p>\n