It's summer and school is out. Aidric and I are sitting out on the back porch today, just enjoying the cool breeze that is miraculously blowing. With temperatures being what they've been of late, today's surprise clouds and the coolness they brought with, are a treat indeed. We are not alone in enjoying the day, there are four boys from a nearby house out here, they must be visiting their grandparents for a part of the summer.
Three of the boys have longish dark curly hair and the fourth has short cropped blond hair. I'd say that three of them are junior high age, just judging from their 'Too cool for school' disdain of the younger ones apparent fascination with bugs (or some other living creature - I'm too far away to see what he's pointing at and really, I don't want to know what he's found). They are wandering listlessly around the orchard and halfheartedly tossing a ball back and forth as they explore. You just know that grandma told them to get out of the house and out of her hair just by the set of their hunched shoulders. They reek of that old summer malaise 'We're bored' with a hint of 'We've got nothing to do' around the eyes.
Aidric however cannot seem to take his eyes off of them. Either he's fascinated by just having someone else besides mom around to look at or he's taking notes of how to behave when he's that age.
Well, the countdown continues, only a little over a week left, and I'm just trying to soak in some last bits of France.
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