spotlighting

Last night we were eating supper and we could see the neighbor boys driving up the road and they were spotlighting for deer. If you have never heard of this, it's a redneck activity done at night to find deer.

"Hmmm, wonder what they're looking for?" I said. I totally knew, but just wanted to make conversation. Any excuse to talk.

"Deer" replied Tim.

"Maybe they're looking for naked people"

"Oh, Anne where do you get your weird ideas?"

He went off to bed, I laughed under my breath.

We have a bathroom in our barn with a shower so when you are done milking the cows you can take a shower, it's nice to come to the house clean. I usually being my clean clothes down. Well, one day last week, I forgot them.

Instead of running back to the barn, I just decided to take a shower anyway. I dried off with my sweatshirt turned inside out. I certainly didn't want to put my old clothes back on that were covered in cow manure.

"Can I do it?" I thought.

hmmmmmm yeah what the hell just do it.

I grabbed my laundry basket with dirty washclothes in it that I use to wash the cows udders and headed towards the house. Totally naked. Let me tell you 45 degrees with clothes ON is alot warmer than 45 degrees with clothes OFF.

About half way up the driveway thoughts started to go thru my mind. "What if someone actually shows up here? I know it's late, but what if?"

"What if the boys are spotlighting for deer?"

I walked faster.

I made it to the house.

I wouldn't recommend that to anyone. It's really cold in November in Ashville, really cold.

I got in the house, put on my clothes and wondered what in the world would those boys think if they saw me walking naked with clothes in a basket? Maybe they would call the nut house and have me committed, probably put me on the front page of the local newspaper "Farm woman gone crazy over low milk prices, found wandering naked in her driveway. Photos at 10:00".

talk later

Annie