This past week I have been hanging with a woman I went to junior and senior high school with when we were younger. Today we had lunch at the auction barn. They hold livestock auctions on Thursday evenings. During the day there is a separate building for a farmer's market and a little restaurant type area. My sister-in-law's family works at the dining area so we stopped there for lunch. I ordered the bacon cheeseburger with fries and a side of homemade mac and cheese. She ordered the Hot sausage sandwich with peppers and onions and mac and cheese. We also both had cokes and got the coconut cream pie and 3 cheeseburgers to go (the pieces of pie were for us...the burgers for her hubby and his two crew members who are working on installing a metal roof at our house). Once home I gave my piece of pie to my parents who were just finishing up with their lunch. It is so nice living in a rural area where people just gather and shoot the breeze with each other over the tables there. Was nice to see some familiar faces of others we went to school with and talk more with her. I told her it will be bittersweet to see her hubby and the guys move onto the next job because they have been there for the last two work weeks. She told me that she could still come and hang with me and the folks because we have so much in common. Lunch was as good as any place to sit and share more about our lives. I am blessed to have reconnected after 30 years.
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